By The Way

This is a miniature book of photographs that is held within special collections at MMU library. The images document a car journey from Liverpool to Hull. The journey was recorded on video shot in real time. This meant that when ever the car came to a stop on the road the video would take a photograph. In total there are 111 photos within the sequence. The project was created by a group of people called TEA, consisting on Jon Biddulph, Peter Hatton, Val Murray and Lynn Pilling. 

Like the Brendan Dawes photography work that used many photographs in order to create a larger piece I am considering using this idea within my work. I intend to play about with this by creating a route along which I will take photos. 

Gabriel Dawe

Gabriel Dawe was born in Mexico City where he grew up surrounded by the intensity and color of Mexican culture. He was eventually led to explore textiles and embroidery.


"Activities traditionally associated with women and which were forbidden for a boy growing up in Mexico. Because of this, his work is subversive of notions of masculinity and machismo that are so ingrained in his culture".
Overall an amazing example of one of the different ways to tranform thread into great instalations.

Some images of my final piece

QR Code Island

This is an interesting combination of high-tech and low-tech. Made by Mat Barnes and Eddie Blake, it uses the traditional art of model making, I remember going to a whole museum like this when I was little and I was fascinated by the miniature scenes of the English Countryside and tiny people.  However when you look at it from above it reads as a QR code that can be scanned by a smartphone and leads to a secret website…

Screw Art

Andrew Meyers uses hundreds of screws at different levels to create shading and tones in his huge 3D portraits.  He uses an electric screwdriver to drive his work straight into the wall; it’s amazing how realistic he makes the faces using just screws.  Up close it looks like a bunch of screws but from a distance the image becomes clear.

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 Fritz henle c. 1947.

Miguel Villalobos

I wanted to do more research into creating line/thread sculptural pieces, and develop my work in through looking at these artists different methods.

andera farina

Because I'm using dark lines in my project, I've been researching into artists ways of using dark lines such as this embroidery peice. I like how some lines are so controlled, and some thread pieces are left drifting. So detailed and delicate.