Artist Research

Davina Drummond

Davina is a fantastic and unique artist who has actually done one on one work with the BRIT school. She is a remarkable woman. Davina Drummond graduated with a B.A.(hons) in Fine Art Textiles from Goldsmiths College, London in 2005 and with a postgraduate diploma in Art Education from the Institute of Education, London in 2007 . She works at the intersection between art and art education, purposely blurring the boundaries between the two disciplines. She creates site or date specific relational works, often incorporating the use of text and textiles. Davina’s practice explores modes of making artworks, which involve the process of social interactions and creative collaborations with others in gallery, non-gallery spaces and educational settings. 

The Big Celebration Cake

This is my favorite of Davina's recent projects.TallTales were comissioned by Southern Housing Group, to produce the Samuel Lewis Estate 100 year Centenary celebration, which took place in summer 2010. The project aimed to engage residents of a 300 home Islington estate through a series of events and activities to mark its 100th year.

For The Big Celebration Cake Davina Drummond worked with residents of all ages from the Estate to create a giant collaborative celebration cake, which was shared at the celebration day in September. During August she worked with members of the estate to design celebration cakes, drawing dream cakes and decorating cakes. Cakes could celebrate anything, perhaps a lasting strong relationship or your son achieving an A for his latest homework? Through these sessions Davina facilitated conversations about what should be celebrated more and what should be celebrated less. The designs were exhibited in the community centre and everyone was welcome to vote for their favourite design, which was then be made by a group of residents with Davina, using ovens around the estate for the celebration day.

See Davina's Website and blog for more of her fantastic work.

http://www.davinadrummond.co.uk/

http://davinasbigproject.tumblr.com/

Artist Reasearch

BANKSY

Banksy is an incredibly famous gorilla artist. His work is unexpected turning up in places you would not expect. Banksy uses famous images, text and geographical place in order to send a message across to the public. Banksy throws issues that effect the world straight into the faces of the people who chose to ignore them. He makes light of terrible situations to devalue them in the same way people devalue the issues by ignoring them. 

Many find banksy's work offensive and barely legal, but if it was not it would not scream the message that he wants to give out.

Artist Research

Marc Quinn

Marc Quinn is a British artist and one of a loose group called the Young Artists. His most famous and well known works are his sculpture works of Alison Lapper on the 4th plinth, a wax work called self  and his work called the garden. In my opinion Marc Quinn is a very unexpected artist due to the fact that he explores his vision in many different techniques. He works extremely well in sculpture and explores this medium in so many different and yet beautiful ways.

I had the pleasure of seeing this fantastic sculpture. I additionally had the pleasure of explaining to a tourist who the sculpture was of and who created it and why this woman was worth creative a statue of. A passerby believed it was a statue of an alien...oh dear.

By far my favorite work Marc Quinn has created is Garden. Marc brought over 1000 different species of flowers together in one huge garden exhibition displaying the beauties and treasures of the world that many people take for granted.