7/10/23

Margate Trip with Group

These texture rubbings gathered as a group were done using a mixture of different art mediums such as charcoal, coloured chalk, colouring pencils done on top of different sheet types like tracing paper, printer paper, recycling paper.

Street Art

The street art around Margate is very expressive and colourful. There is a lot of ‘pop’ colour usage which really makes the art pieces stand out. It really reminded me back to my visit to the Turner gallery and the art sculpture I was interested in by Anne Ryan.

Carl Freedman Gallery

Sand Textures

Wood Textures

Metal and Stone Textures

5/10/23

Margate Visit - Turner Gallery, Margate Caves and Shell Grotto

My visit to the Turner gallery was a little underwhelming but that was due to the construction work going on now. One thing that really stood out to me was Anne Ryan’s sculptural work, she used very expressive colours and forms to create these amazing sculptures in the pictures above I have zoomed in on moments I found interesting and another thing that amazed me is her use of scrap materials using materials she found and painted over them, that whole idea/concept of being ‘sustainable’.

This photo really stood out to me as the tour guide at the time was shining his UV torch which allowed me to see the art piece without it I would have not. This man figure was apparently an actual man who was 7ft tall called Richard Joy. “He was intimidating enough figure on land but soon turned to a life on the ocean wave and became a smuggler. He drowned at sea in 1742 and was brought back to be buried in Broadstairs.” – Information Board at Margate Caves.