TUMBLR!

I now have a tumblr account which is as follows:
http://kate-banahan.tumblr.com/

This is where i will be uploading photos of my recent work and building a collection of others work that i find inspiring and intresting.

Ad in Visit Bath for #ProjectSpace

http://visitbath.co.uk/whats-on/projectspace-at-milsom-place-p824223

The 100

Check out 'The 100' a photography project by Matthew Knight, the creator of the Disposable Memory Project. In the 100 project a disposable camera is given to someone of each age, years 1 to 100. They use these camera to capture a week of their life.

100 people. 100 different lives.

At the moment there are still some places left for some ages so apply here or let friends/family know - http://the100.thinkplaymake.co/take-part/ 

See also the Disposable Memory Project: disposablememoryproject.org

I am age 22. To see my photos see:

http://the100.thinkplaymake.co/the100/22/

Papercuts

From my journeys in 'A Month', I have taken each day and 'retraced' my steps - each day is on a new sheet of fabriano paper. There are 30 of these, and I have hand cut each days journeys and layered them up on top of each other revealing the different thickness's of the roads I'd visited most vs only once. This is not the final piece as I still need to finish them off and work out how to display it but here are some images so far.

#ProjectSpace @ Milsom Place Unit 4

Following the success of their first group show at Bath Spa University’s Dartmouth Avenue Campus, eight contemporary artists are to showcase their work at Milsom Place with an exhibition entitled #ProjectSpace. Running from 17th to 28th April #ProjectSpace seeks to open up a wider conversation on issues not usually seen in contemporary art today.

“We see this as a real opportunity to engage with the public and to show them that contemporary art can take on big issues” says exhibiting artist Sophia Sample.
“Our work ranges in topics from surveillance and the Arab Spring, to pills and parenthood” added Kate Banahan.

With work ranging from photography to painting, sound art to drawing, and video to installation art, this exhibition shows the extensive and diverse range of interests and disciplines explored by these emerging artists.
From Handley-Merricks’ sound piece documenting the nature of prolonged and extensive medical pill taking, to Wilmshursts’ photography which questions the ethics and aesthetics of looking. To the problems of subjective representation – Samples’ paintings that follow the Western World’s reaction to the uprisings in the Middle East, Jones’ drawings that explore the way in which the repeated drawn line can signify three dimensional space and Howards’ video exploring the demands and pressures society places on young working mothers.


Title: ‘#ProjectSpace’
Open to Public: Tues 17th – Sat 28th April
Opening Hours: Weekdays 10am – 5pm, Sun 11am – 4pm
Private View: Fri 27th 6 – 8pm

Participating Artists:
Kate Banahan
Amy Jones
Hannah Wilmshurst
Sophia Sample
Mikayla Howard
Sue Handley-Merrick
Sophie Cowan
Vanessa Bowden

Course: 3rd Year BA Creative Arts

                                         New #ProjectSpace poster designed by Hannah Wilmshurst

A Month

'A Month' - Silkscreen Print 
All the roads in Bath I have been down in one month.
Walked, in a car and in a taxi.

#ProjectSpace Set Up

Participating Artists:
Kate Banahan
Amy Jones
Hannah Wilmshurst
Sophia Sample
Mikayla Howard
Sue Handley-Merrick
Sophie Cowan
Vanessa Bowden

Course: 3rd Year BA Creative Arts


Running from the 19th-21st March 2012.

#projectspace

This is an exhibition I took part in at Dartmouth Avenue in Bath. A group consisting of myself and fellow Creative Art students. This is the poster for it designed by Hannah Wilmshurst.

My Dissertation Abstract

This is what im working on at the moment and exploring for my dissertation - 


'This study will be looking at the theme of psychogeography, and contemporary artists and writers who are exploring it in their work. The essay will be concentrating on the theories from the 1950’s Situationist International, and looking at how these are used in the twenty first century. Pyschogeography is defined as ‘a mix between geography and psychology and looks at how people explore a city and studies the specific effects that the geographical environment (consciously organised or not), has on the emotions or behaviour of individuals. A psychogeographer is one who explores and reports on psychographical phenomena.’[1] The main point of exploring the Situationist International is to look at their ideas and the, ‘theory of the dérive’. The dérive is about ‘drifting’ in the city revealing how the city and its ambience can detour you into exploring new and different areas. Nowadays there are many artists and writers who are interested in the field of psychogeography. This thesis discusses how the ideas formed in the 1950’s can be used in the present day and how writers, Iian Sinclair and Will Self, and artists such as Esther Polak have used these ideas to influence their own work or exploration of ideas.

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[1] International Situationniste #1 (June 1958). Translated by Ken Knabb. Pg.'

The dissertation still needs a lot of work and tweaking before hand in after Easter!! From researching this I have found out about new artists and new inspirations for work.

31 Days

From the 14th November to the 14th December 2011 I recorded every single road in Bath that I went down. The journeys are mostly walked but also include car and taxi journeys. It is then interesting to see how many times I visit each particular road, which ones are the most popular and which have only been visited once. 

This is the notebook that I used to record my roads in. I am now hoping to create prints and graphs out of the collected information.

Noriko Ambe

          I am in ore of these papercuts by Noriko Ambe!!

                                                                             "Lands of Emptiness"

2003
Cuts on Housho-shi Paper

View her website at: http://www.norikoambe.com/index.html

I'm really interested in creating some papercuts of my journeys or using the lazer cutter to create bigger works and I could even use MDF!

AROUND ROUTE!

For this test piece I was thinking about how long it takes to get somewhere. I thought about a ticking clock and decided to make these circular journeys as after all, the trail of going into town from my house and back again is like a round route. It has a beginning, middle and an end. To further this idea I plan on positioning these journeys into actual clocks, I’ll time the journeys precisely so that as each new road on the clock face is approached, the clock hand will meet it at the time it took for me to get there.

BEEN - SCREEN!

This is a screen print from the drawing I did for - everywhere I've walked in Bath.

about.

An extract from a presentation i did.

 "I would class myself as an artist who creates work out of my life - where I go, what I do, and who I see. I could also be called a collector of data, information that would have been kept within my head, which is then translated into visual work.

My art practice literally explores journeys, time, travel, memory and situations. It’s based on mapping which is a subject I have always been interested in since I started to make trips to new and different locations. From my explorations I have made in the city of Bath since I moved here to study, I have gained knowledge of the area and have created a mind map of the locations visited.

Firstly I would like to point out that there has been a long tradition with people defining the landscape with maps and cartography. Myself, and the artists I will talk about later, explore some of the same themes using different media and processes.

My work is based on ideas, and I mainly use the processes of print and drawing but I’m beginning to branch out and would like to use more 3D elements in my work and the uses of video and sounds. Whilst I’m partaking my daily journeys I find the time to reflect, explore or remember - it’s like a kind of escapism.

Idea wise I like to explore the city and think about it in the terms of a network of people’s lives and transportation, experiences and history. I love thinking about how the mind can store these situations and knowledge and form a memory. How you can always remember a journey that you frequently make to the point that you don’t even really have to think about where you’re going interests me greatly. I like to live by this statement, ‘You have to do the journey, in order to get somewhere’. Which will be true as long as time ticks."

been there

Drawing of everywhere i've walked in Bath.

James Bridle: Rorschmap

Yesterday, whilst looking on http://www.itsnicethat.com i came across this map made by James Bridle called 'rorschmap' which you can view at: http://rorschmap.com. Its like a looking through a kaleidoscope of google maps, he says, “Rorschmap is cartographic navel-gazing, a reframing of the map. It will not help you find anything. We are bored with your squares and your margins. We want new shapes and new dimensions….”

I love looking at where i live, seeing the patterns the map creates on the landscape as you zoom in or out. You can also view in street or satellite view. Heres some of Bath.

Zommed out

This certainly is re-creating a map into something different.

Also view: http://shorttermmemoryloss.com/portfolio/about-this-site/ for more works and writings. 

how things used to be

Reading was Walking.

everywhere ive been

Here is a map that shows everywhere that I have walked in Bath since I moved here in late August 2009. I used an A-Z map of Bath to create it. It’s my personal map, and no other map should be the same as hopefully there will always be different roads that people walk down. The black areas that are separate from the centre are made by when I got a lift, hence didn’t experience the surroundings whilst walking, just when I got to the location - such as Bath Uni, or the Holburn Museum. Next I plan on using the laser cutter and experiment with different materials so I can kind of take the ‘routes’ out of their surroundings so just the trace of where I’ve been is revealed. 

EVER OURS

My good friend Kim has started up her own blog @
http://www.everours-blog.blogspot.com/

She also has her own website selling clothes/accessories/jewellery
http://everours.bigcartel.com/

This is the perfect place for dresses, home gifts and pretty vintage inspired necklaces all at amazing prices.


               a personal favourite is this dress:

http://everours.bigcartel.com/product/pleated-dress

and this lovely chalk board :)

http://everours.bigcartel.com/product/mini-floral-fabric-mini-chalkboard

                  And this is her facebook page:                      http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ever-Ours/140667972695731


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