Scholarship

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Scholarship 2010Sculpture (93308)

• Examples of Candidate Work

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OUTSTANDING SCHOLARSHIP This submission is
noteworthy for the manner in which this student
has embraced a strategy that has a high risk
factor in terms of how the submission could be
read and interpreted. Taking a simple subject
like commonplace rocks, a variety of different
situational scenarios are suggested through image
and text. The value of this sculptural
investigation is understood in the portfolio
submission and workbook as a holistic entity
rather than any case made for the worthiness of a
specific work. The workbook significantly reveals
the intelligence and knowledge the candidate has
in regards to contemporary sculptural concerns,
using a broad ranging discussion and analysis to
identify and comment upon the variety of
different genre within the field. In this
regards, the submission reads as a somewhat wry
commentary that uses a sense of humour to convey
the depth of understanding the student has of
contemporary sculptural practice. A great deal of
this understanding has been conveyed through
analysis and discussion within the workbook,
providing depth and substance. The candidate
has begun the portfolio by thinking around
different types of plinths and modes of
presentation that playfully deal with conventions
surrounding the collecting and displaying of art.
Similarly the candidate exhibits a consciousness
around aesthetics as philosophy, dealing with
judgments of sentiment and taste and using such
analysis to inform the various experimentations
and outcomes demonstrated on the portfolio.
Citing of Immanuel Kant and the subsequent
sculptural provocations of Marcel Duchamp has
provided the candidate with historical precedence
and context. The introduction of text through a
consideration and understanding of semiotics has
allowed the candidate to play with different
modes of presentation to convey the substance of
their ideas. The workbook is used in a manner
that has not only allowed the candidate to
evaluate decisions made for individual works but
is also an investigative tool in itself. The
candidate has canvased a range of possibilities
from Internet interactivity, animation, through
to ideas around performance. The synergy between
workbook and portfolio is complete and
demonstrates excellent studentship in terms of
understanding the programme and the individual
project undertaken.
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SCHOLARSHIP The portfolio begins with a close
observation of the micro within the natural
world, which is in part motivated by the
candidates interpretation of the work of the
Belgian Sculptor Wim Delvoye, who is concerned
with questions about human dependency upon
technology and how in the future, material life
could/will be increasingly dominated by
technology. The candidate has begun their
discussion by questioning what we understand the
organic and the synthetic to be. This is
further supported within the workbook by
appropriate research into the golden ratio, an
irrational mathematical constant that is
purported to be found in all natural systems. In
this instance the golden ratio provides the
candidate a formal equation by which aesthetic
and material considerations can be determined.
This has been played out through various
different manifestations that reference natural
phenomena, but continually play on the organic
and the synthetic. This provides the overall
conceptual framework from which each iteration of
work has been developed. The developments within
panel 2 consist of a variety of mechanical
contraptions, some that are fully articulated,
crafted principally from balsa wood, wire and
micro-circuitry that describe and illustrate
movement. These experimentations have led the
candidate to expand the format from object-making
to envisaging a diorama as the vehicle for an
animated narrative sequence and finally
concluding with very delicate small scale works
that could equally be understood as jewellery.
The deliberate use of green and red
throughout gives a visual coherence to the
various explorations that have been
undertaken. Throughout this submission, the
candidate displays a fluent understanding of how
to work on a diminutive scale, defying normative
assumptions that sculptural practice need be
large in order to be worthy. There is also a
notable value given to the handcrafted/assembled
and attention to detail. This candidate shows
effortless control and enthusiasm for
model-making and appropriately cites references
to handcrafted jewellery (and in particular the
art nouveau jewellery of Lalique), within the
workbook. An understanding of this context in
sculptural terms is what distinguishes this
Scholarship submission as a highly inventive and
individual interpretation of sculptural concerns,
particularly, issues to do with scale and
materiality. Within the workbook a number of
other parallel investigations take place that
have not been included within the portfolio.
Collectively, the evidence contained within the
workbook and that which is demonstrated on the
portfolio panels adds up to a comprehensive
understanding of sculptural practice. This has
continually been developed through new ideas,
avoiding this submission from being repetitive
and making it worthy of the Scholarship award.
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