Blog | samwills

Haywain

I am carrying out a series of work whereby I am recreating and incorporating Constables Haywain into a number of different environments a...

Habermas Public Sphere

I have been researching Habermas' theory of the "Public Sphere", this has helped me situate my practice amongst other socially engaged wo...

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I am attracted to the concept of Socialist realism due to the way it marries together both romantic idealism and corrupt dictatorships to...

Robert Rauschenberg Combine Series

In the past the process of appropriation has been such an important part of my working practice. I use appropriation as a method of commu...

My Wallpaper

Continuing to explore cliché twee imagery associated to the aesthetic of Englishness, I created a modern day version of an old traditiona...

RACHEL MACLEAN: WOT U :-) ABOUT? - Tate Britain

In this exhibition I really enjoyed how Maclean's work parody's familiar subjects such as advertisement and social media in order to make...

Wallpaper

For a number of weeks prior to viewing the Mike Kelley exhibition, which consisted of Kitsch religious models, I have been looking at sim...

Mike Kelley at the Hauser and Wirth gallery

Framed and Frame: This piece consist of two different parts, one being the "Framed" and the other being the "Frame", they are then separa...

Medium lectures

Today I attended a lecture about the role of the medium and the language individual mediums carry. We discussed critics such as Clement ...

Constable's Haywain

As stated in a previous post I am attracted to John Constable due to the way his work seems to be widely recognised and appreciated by pe...

Cindy Sherman and David Salle: History Portraits and Tapestry Paintings - Skarstedt Gallery

I found this exhibition very relevant to my practice due to its reference to history and its element of parody. The exhibition consisted ...

"O the Roast Beef of Old England"

During my research into William Hogarth I came across this painting "O the Roast beef of Old England" (fig.1) and I was really interested...

Hogarth

I have recently been researching William Hogarth (1697–1764) and have found his work very relevant to my practice. I admire the way he us...

Wivenhoe Park

In this piece I was looking at the idealistic portrayal of the English landscape within the history and tradition of English paintings. I...

Formalism Lecture

Today I attended a Formalism lecture, we were introduced to the basic theory of Clement Greenberg and the progression and theory of Forma...

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