Kashif Nadim Chaudry

Defining himself as a textile artist, Kashif Nadim Chaudry’s current practice is concerned with a search for the idea of the ‘Sacred’ and all its entrapments.  Playing with the traditions and ceremonies of his own Pakistani Muslim background, as well as investigating a further marginalised identity as a British born gay man, Nadim’s search for the sacred raises questions around adornment, sexuality and the performances of religious and cultural ritual.

Nadim likes using different materials such as the kind of materials you would find used for traditional Indian clothing. In the images above Nadim used spare bits of fabric to make it i really like how the fabric almost looks like a liquid because they are very well almost blended together. This exhibit was exhibited in the harem surface gallery in 2010.

                                                                                                                                                                                   

This exhibit was called a queers dowry and consists of using different thread to wrap around different objects such as concrete shoes and tables yet again i think the way he has done it almost makes the thread look almost liquid like how it is pouring onto the floor. 

Raphael Daden is a Uk based sculpture working mainly with light but also uses other materials such as resin, glass and acrylic. He has developed this process by utilizing raw lighting such as LEDs, Neon and other light sources. 7

Recently he has been making large scale sculptures in city centers.

Made in - 2001 

Brighton cones

This is a large scale sculpture Raph made for Brighton city center out of resin and Metal Halide Lighting and steal. it is 360 x 100cm, 300x 120cm, 240 x 140cm in size. Many people have visited Brighton to see these massive cones.I really like them i think they look amazing at night and are very eye catching I would love to see them in person.

Made in - 2013

Painting with lights

This is a massive circle of rectangles and squares full of colour made for an underground in Cardiff made out of acrilic, Wood, metal, LEDs and censer wiring so when it is touched it changes colour. I love this because its like a peace of art that it made more other people for them to be creative and almost make there own design out of an already amazing peace of art.

Made in - 2013 

Boxed inside

These two light boxes were made for latitude in 2013 and are boxes with different inspiring and meaningful words on them and only show once it has gone dark.

This was a temporary sculpture but i think it was a really good idea and i think he should make a permanent version of this somewhere in a town or city center. 

He also makes different sculptures for buildings such as hospital and waiting rooms.

made in- 2010

sea pattern 

This is a massive wall made out of resin, steal and LED lighting it is located on the side of a hospital in Ireland and was put up to make the hospital look a lot more cheery.

I think it almost looks like a swimming pool in on the side of the building its perfect and looks really realistic.

made in - 2012

under the water 

This is made out of resin, steal and LED lighting and was made for Liverpool Royal nhs.

I think this is very similar to the one above its like a smaller scale version. it is said to move with the daily rythem of what is going on around it.

David Stickman Higgins

David is an artist/ photographer with a African/carabbean background but was born in Lancashire he also is a musician actor and poet and has many other amazing talents.  I wasn't in the day of the workshop so i dont really know much about his work or him. I have looked at his website and he looks really creative and looks like he gets very inspired by things that have and are going on in his life.  His visual work consists on painting, collages and using different African materials.

Amelie - Review

Amelie is a romantic comedy based around a young waitress living in France. She is very shy as she was an only child and her mother died when she was little so now only has the company of her father. After a while of living in her flat she discovers a rusty old box in the wall belonging to a man who used to live there, she then decides to find that owner and return it to him anonymously. after doing this she decides that she is there to make people happy and she will become a do-gooder.While making other people happy she falls in love with a man called nino he is a middle aged man who works in a porn shop and has a hobby of collecting images from photo booths and putting them all in a scrap book and is desperate to find out who one man is. well amilie finds outs about this and tries to help him even though they have never met. She also tries to get him to notice her by leaving little clues and pictures of her in the photo booth. 

In the end they find out the man that keeps appearing in happens to be the engineer that fixes the machine. but all isn't bad in the end Amelie and nino fall in love and get together.