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My ‘UPside’ is inspired by the ephemera we keep throughout our lives as souvenirs of happy events. These old postcards, receipts, photographs and ornaments serve as memory triggers, transporting us back to these occasions. Through the series of works, I wish to explore the concepts of memory, nostalgia and sentimental value.
My UPside pieces will be a series of quite personal moments based around touch and evoking the feelings one gets from these small often private sensory pleasures.
This is the first colour sketch. I’m still very much at the compositional sketching stage.
Pen and inked and then coloured digitally.
So I was thinking about my own personal reasons to be cheerful and kept coming back to the idea of “Friends” (…not the TV show!).
Good friends are always there when you need them, and even when you don’t. They are there to share the good times and can help make a bad situation seem less so.
My idea is to draw a collection of portraits of my friends. I am imagining the final piece to be large format (maybe A1) with the individual portraits being relatively small in size, so that there would be a large number of portraits included. I mocked-up this idea using a selection of repeated images from birthday cards I’ve made in the past…
My aim with the final piece would be to create a satisfying overall appearance which rewards closer viewing with the individual faces and expressions.
This is the first piece I have been working on recently. I am always inspired by technological and industrial themes so I ‘ve made a bit of my own Up machine in this one. The theme of the exhibition is Up so I came up with this Choco Happy Making Machine which fuels with hot chocolate boxes – I have not put the details yet- and it constantly brings you up to the the big sunflower which is symbolic of the sun. It also reflects my preference for chocolate. This was based from initial thoughts in my sketchbook and have developed them on an A2 surface which will be a part of 3 or 4 pieces all together depending on the available space that each will be very relative to each other.
These are my work in progress. I try to describe my favourite things to do with my imagination. So far, I’m using watercolour and collage, but I will try other techniques as well.
These are landscape but it might be better to make portrait A2 images, so I need to think about the design and layout.
I have developed a narrative about a group of friends who each have upsides, for example being a know it all or super tall … ( This is just a beginning sketch for the characters)..
One of my first ideas was to document people’s relationships to their pets. Here a lady is enjoying an Agatha Christie novel and sharing some Murry mints with her cat.. Pebbles…
Welcome to the UPside web platform.
Here we will be updating information, uploading images and discussing ideas. We are open to input from anyone interested in our project.
Upside is an ongoing collaborative venture which is based on narratives and languages coming together. The works will be shown in exhibitions as the project unfolds.
If you like to contribute or are interested in featuring our work contact us:
upsidecollective@gmail.com
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