COLIN CHILLAG - ARTIST RESEARCH
Colin Chillag is an artist whose work I have been aware of for some time. I am drawn to his work because he makes something really...
Dara Bolaji
Apr 21, 20192 min read
MEL BOCHNER - ARTIST RESEARCH
"Conceptual artist Mel Bochner has been active since the 1960s, starting practices that are now taken for granted, such as using gallery...
Dara Bolaji
Apr 20, 20192 min read
MY PREVIOUS WORK - POETRY ILLUSTRATION BOOK
I have been trying to put together a poetry illustration book using the poems I write. I have been trying to form an illustration style,...
Dara Bolaji
Apr 19, 20191 min read
CHRISTOPHER WOOL (again) - ARTIST RESEARCH
When I reseearched Christopher Wool before, I was looking just at his text work. I hadn't realised that he also makes paintings. What I...
Dara Bolaji
Apr 18, 20191 min read
MY PREVIOUS WORK - SCREENPRINTING
This is a screenprint that I made last year. It fits with the style of my current project in the sense that it merges text and image. I...
Dara Bolaji
Apr 17, 20192 min read
HAMISH FULTON - ARTIST RESEARCH
I had researched this artist when I made my piece about drains. He was a good artist to look at then because he incorporated text imposed...
Dara Bolaji
Apr 16, 20191 min read
MY PREVIOUS WORK - INCORPORATING TEXT & IMAGERY
After working with just text I wanted to combine text with imagery. I used photos and then decided I would paint cause that just felt...
Dara Bolaji
Apr 15, 20191 min read
THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY MEMORIES OF CASPAR HEINEMANN'S ARTIST TALK
I have borrowed Caspar Heinemann's Artist Talk from first year as I felt there was something about it that resonated with the way I have...
Dara Bolaji
Mar 30, 20193 min read
CHRISTOPHER WOOL - ARTIST RESEARCH
Christopher Wool is best known for his series of his paintings of large, black text stencilled onto white canvases. Wool began to create...
Dara Bolaji
Mar 11, 20191 min read
LAWRENCE WEINER - ARTIST RESEARCH
Having seen my ideas, my teacher suggested to me that I have a look at Lawrence Weiner. "Lawrence Weiner’s texts have appeared in all...
Dara Bolaji
Mar 10, 20192 min read
ROBERT MONTGOMERY - ARTIST RESEARCH
I have been a fan of this artist's work for some time. Robert Montgomery is a London-based artist who works with text to disseminate his...
Dara Bolaji
Mar 8, 20192 min read
MY PREVIOUS WORK - WORKING WITH TEXT
I have been writing poetry for some years. I enjoy playing with words and their importance, their weight, their power. Sometimes I like...
Dara Bolaji
Mar 2, 20192 min read
INITIAL IDEAS
I'd like to use my poetry to make a comment on the things that matter, to discuss the socio-political issues that I care about - whether...
Dara Bolaji
Jan 31, 20192 min read