LORD WHITNEY
We had a truly inspiring guest speaker, Amy
Lord from Lord Whitney come to give us a lecture. Lord Whitney are a group of
two women who have tagged themselves as “connoisseurs of make-believe”. They
have created waves in the design industry and drawn attention from clients such
as Vogue, Nicki Minaj and The Secret Garden. Working in areas such as creative
direction, set design and art direction, which is really interesting to me, as
very few groups spread their skills across these three areas. Amy Lord said she
was constantly jumping back and forth with illustration and photography until
she met the other half of her group Rebecca Whitney through an interest of
film. I like how their work is very free and unrestricted; it’s a nice style to
take after and can be manipulated to work really well with my work.
When the talk had finished we then made our
way over to the Benzie building and started a workshop with Amy Lord. In this
workshop we worked in our groups and collaborated on making a piece of
sculpture work. I saw this as a good way for us to bond with our groups and
find out styles that others liked. The task we were given was quite easy. We
were given two random words and a random object. Once we had these we had to
create the sculpture over the course of the afternoon. Group nines words that
we randomly picked were “Arctic” and “shaman” and the object, which I pulled
from the bag, was a bright blue jelly mould.
From this we came together and started thinking of ideas.
I then had the idea that instead of the
exterior of the igloo we could create the interior and make it look like an
Inuit’s hunting lodge with spears, masks and animal heads. I thought that this
would also link in with the shaman idea too. I think over our entire group
worked quite well to make this strange mixture of words and objects work to our
favour.
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