'Wrap It Up' Project

This work would explore the process of wrapping objects. The objects might be  wrapped carefully or quickly, experimenting and taking risks with the decision making involved. My plan was to create a transient process, involving wrapping, recording digitally and with drawings, then unwrapping and constructing with the fragments, considering the presentation of these pieces of materials then recording digitally and through drawings again.

So here are some reference points I considered before embarking upon my own work-

Bandaging

Examples of bandaging can represent concealment of the body parts. They can be wrapped quickly and roughly or in a more traditional marrer creating repetition and elements of pattern. A wrapped tree with a drip demonstates a sense of humour, as does a performance piece involving a man clumsily bandaging rocks to his body which eventually became so heavy they were thrown into a river.

Christo and Jeanne Claude

Drawing of The Pont Neuf Wrapped, Paris, 1975-1985

These guys are the original wrappers! 'Awesome' is not even the word...They have wrapped central park, the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris and an entire coastline in Australia among a zillion other things. Totally draw-dropping work. I love thier visulaitaion drawings of the wrappings made  before the installation is complete. They're so definite and precise and yet have a 'not of this world' sense about them- its incredile they could pull this stuff off- and their wrapped Coastline remains the largest, most ambitious piece of art-work ever created to this day.
http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/ 

Wrapped Coast 1969

Joseph Beuys 

Joseph Beuys 'I like America and America likes me' 1974

Beuys' wrapped piano piece suggests a seemingly obvious content within the package, therefore contrasting with this piece of his that plays upon the the ambiguous assumption that  a human being might possibly be in the bag .

Claues Oldenberg

Oldenberg's objects were not wrapped so much as draped in materials. Still counts though.

Man Ray

Inspired by the poem 'Sewing machine on a table' this piece is engimatic and the contents remain uncertain. We as the viewer can only make assumptions about the contents of the packaging.

Man Ray 'Sewing machine on a table'

Furoshiki

Rebecca Horn

Horn's performance work involves body wrappings and body extentions, such as in her pieces 'Unicorn' and 'White body fan'.

Furoshiki

Furoshiki is a form of japanese panel wrapping. Objects are wrapped constricted only by folding and tying cloth, no other attatchment mechanism is involved.

Mummification

Wrapping people in a concentric crude manner. Not my scene.

Antonio Tapies

Spanish artist who has worked with found objects attached in relief to his canvas or boards.I like his play on the  use of canvas within  art and his  unique approach to the accepted traditions of painting.

Robert Rauschenberg

Rauschenberg's cardboard box pieces are sellotaped. Once the tape is removed, the pieces are left with a visible mark or stain. These impressions give the work a sense of it's own history , of it's making. This is a concept I have explored in my paintings before, particulary in reference to Callum Innes.

Here are a few images of the work I produced during this project-

Below are more  pages of my sketchbook work, responding to the brief and  the research above.

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