Lisa Kokin

Lisa Kokin is an American artist who alters pieces of art or books. She creates pictures, books and multimedia books that address different issues
Books play a major roll in Lisa's work. She mostly reshapes the books or alters them to make into totally different things. She makes paper mache balls out of the pages, shreds the pages and even sews the pages inside and outside of the book cover. Bits of the text remain but the main meaning and body of the book is gone.
Here are some pictures.

The art to stop worrying and start living!!!

She was awarded her BFA and her MFA from the California College of the arts.

She also creates faces out of buttons. The detail to the faces is incredible and they are in proportion, even though the only shapes are circles. Here are some pictures.

 Don't be afraid to speak up.

 Rescue

She also produces sculptures!!!

 Baby

 Bored of Ironing.

Newspaper article

This is my Reading Chronicle article that I made in class today!!! Hope you like it!!!

Transforming Art

Local Students explore the art of recycling.

This week we were given the amazing opportunity to go to the private view of Maiden Erlegh School’s art exhibition.

The GCSE Year 9 students at Maiden Erlegh School in Earley were given the exciting chance to create some pieces for their own gallery, ‘The Peacock Gallery’. They could make anything they wanted, as long as all of the materials were recycled.

The students made pieces out of books, crisp packets, clothes, toys, chicken wire, paper Mache, newspaper, magazines and cardboard.

A book turned into a spider!

Cakes made from rolled up paper.

Some pieces are 3D and some are 2D. The pieces range from birds and elephants to dresses and photo frames.

Emily Banthorpe’s Elephant

‘I think that making pieces of art is both fun and environmentally friendly,’ quoted one student, Emily Banthorpe,’ It helps us to understand that recycling can be fun and creative. It has helped us to think outside the box as we weren’t using materials that we usually use. We had to use our imagination and make things like bottle tops look like eyes, or bin bags look like fur.’

On Thursday night between 4 and 6 pm, all of the students that created these pieces of art will be bringing family and friends to the private view.

 

Many artists have inspired these students with work of their own. Artists such as Gary Harvey, Robert Bradford and many more!

Dress by Gary Harvey

Dog by Robert Bradford

The exhibition will be open to the public from the 10th to the 16th of December!

By Emily Banthorpe

Hi!
I have finally finished my dress! There are three rows of patchwork and a skirt made out of ties. I unfortunately do not have a picture of it at the moment, but i will try to get one as soon as possible, then i will do another blog with the picture!

My Project

Hey all!

I have finally started on my main piece for the peacock gallery! I am making a life size dress and I have less than 2 weeks to make it!

I am making it out of crisp packets, old dresses and ties!! I am sewing the criSp packets and squares cuts of old dresses into a patchwork. Then once the main body of the dress is done. I will sew ties together and then sew it along the top of the dress, all of the way round, and the down one side of the dress!!!

Here is a picture of how it is going so far!!!

UPDATE!!!

YAY! I have finally finshed my paper elephant! I took it home over half term to finish it off and here is a picture of it!

As you know, I made my elephant out of newspaper, cardboard and masking tape. To cover it, I did collage out if old wrapping paper. I mage the tusks out of newspaper and covered it with old envelopes and the ears I covered with the insides of envelopes. He has button eyes and yoghurt pot feet.

I feel like my elephant is quite realistic in its form but not all of it's feet touch the floor. So I have decided to make him a walking, swaying elephant.

The artist that will inspire my final piece is called Gary Harvey.

He makes dresses out of recycled materials. He started at college, when he wasn't able to buy new materials to make dresses. So he decided to make the dresses out of any recycled materials tha the could find. He has become so well known that one of his collections has featured in the New York Fashion Week. He has made dressed out of old army jackets, baseball jackets and even crisp packets, bottle tops and plastic bags! Here are just a few of them!!!



I plan to make my dress out of crisp packets, old dresses and ties. I plan to make a patchwork out of the crips packets and dresses and then loine the top and side with the ties which will be sewn together. I will be starting to make it soon so I will be updating pictures hopefull soon!!!

Gary Harvey uses alot of colour in some of his dresses. For example this Hawaiian shirt dress is simple at the top and then busy at the bottom with big, floral patterns. The whole dress is brightly coloured.

Gary's work addresses recycling and global warming. The dresses are ,made so that models can wear them for fashion shows and fashion shoots!!!

Newspaper Animals

I have made this elephant out of newspaper and cardboard. I scrunched up many sheets and used sellotape  to stick it down, to create the body and the head. I then rolled up some newspaper to create the trunk. To make the trunk curl, i used thinnly rolled up sheets of newspaper and stuck them underneath the trunk before rolling them up! I then drew two ears onto cardboard, cut them out and then stuck them on. Next I am going to add legs and paper mache my elephant. Then I will cover it will magazines, wrapping paper, etc!

Introduction to my recycling project

Hello and welcome to my blog!! This year I am in Year 9 and am doing art GCSE! Our first project is to create a piece of art by using recycled objects such as newspaper, magazines,plastic bags, etc. Currnetly I am thinking of doing a dress  but I am still in the deciding process!!!! I plan to put up more posts and a few pictures to keep you posted on my project!!!!