Orla Tully

Golden Record

Artist Statment

My Name is Orla Tully and I am an aspiring artist currently studying art at school and have been inspired by the lockdown to create artwork based on the journey and experience of lockdown. The main media I use is photography, pencil and paint and I am continuously experimenting with other medias as I continue to learn and explore different areas of art. Through the project of the golden record I have explored video, photography, typography and researched into the theme of art and science introducing me to artists like Katie Paterson, Robert Montgemery and Cavan Huang who have inspired me during this project.

TEXT

Within my text artwork I explored the theme of light which is inspired by Cavan Huang as his work is inspire by city lights. In my work I used bright warm colours like orange and yellow to reflect my theme of light and this use of repetition of colour through out my work linked all of my studies together. In Cavan Huang’s text art his words and sentences are scattered and create a very chaotic piece of work. Therefore in my work I tried to reflect that chaos with a palette knife to create smeared paint, using old scrabble pieces, cutting out letters from newspapers and splattering paint across my work. 

Artist Inspiration: Cavan Huang

IMAGES

In this stage of the project I focused on using photography to capture things in our everyday surroundings during lockdown. I was inspired by the artist Man Ray and his rayographs. In his rayographs he used lots of circular shapes so when I was photography my surroundings during lockdown I selected features within my surrounding that had circular shapes. I then continued to photo edit my images to experiment how I could highlight the circular shapes.

Artist Inspiration: Man Ray

MOVING IMAGE

This piece of work is a time-lapse showing ice melting and I experiment with different salt and adding heat to make the ice melt at different rates. I was inspired by the artist Sam Taylor-Johnson who uses time-lapses in her work and I was also inspired by Bill Viola and his work called the Raft where the main feature of his video is water.