Michael Craig-Martin



'Glass of Water'.

Whilst looking through work within Liverpool's Walker Art Gallery i came across Michael Craig Martin's piece titled 'Glass of Water' which i felt connected really well to both my ceramics and textiles themes as abstractly it reassembled a map while also looking similar to a black and white photograph i had taken for my ceramic visual research on casting shadows.

I decided to researched the the conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin as i was curious to see his previous and present work, whilst researching i came across some really interesting pieces. The painting displayed on the left really caught my eye simply because of its vibrant colours, i also felt the imagery used was quite 70's inspired and related well to my textiles work, the blocked colours used work really well together and i plan to use similar groupings of colours within my textile prints to make them as bright and eye catching as possible. The image displayed on the right shows multiple line drawn images layered on top of each other i find this particular piece quite inspiring in reference to my textile mapping imagery, i would like to use this idea of layering line images related to my work to help create map like lines allowing me to almost create an image map.

 

The piece displayed on the right is another vibrant painting by Michael Craig-Martin, when looking closely at this painting it almost looks like small square prints placed together to create one large piece, i like the idea of creating smaller prints in the same colours and placing them together within my own textiles map work as it could make the end results interesting.


The sculpture displayed on the left was again created by artist Michael Craig-Martin, the hammer shaped piece is like a drawn sculpture, i like how a flat line drawing has been made 3D almost like bringing the flat form of drawing to life, i felt that this piece connected really well to my current ceramic research as it is almost like an illusion.