Author: Eli Wesley Barker

SubTv Project Treatment At the beginning of this project, both me and my partner had the same idea of having the theme set under water and with the clients logo being SubTv, the word submerged instantly came to mind. We envisioned starting above water, before submerged deep under the sea. After the workshop with Mario,…

Title | Little Apple Of Death At the beginning of summer, I bought an A5 sketchbook. It fit perfectly in my pocket and I used it constantly, when on the bus, at restaurants, stood in queues etc. I found a pattern within most of my drawings, apples and teeth. When I received the email about…

Through this elective, I was open to creating my end product with any medium that excited me, but at my core, I wanted to create with clay. In the end, clay seemed the most fitting for the art piece I had in mind due to its flexibility and vulnerability to water. This meant I could…

My sketches were informed by the number of experiments within this elective, discovering artists such as Dasha Plensen for her insane mould art and the beauty in ‘ugly or boring’ subjects. I became fascinated by creating something that fell under this category, so I began sketching with this aim in mind. I did not find…

I found some fun books in my attic, such as old geology books, a Slavic children’s story tales book, and a few scattered comic books like ‘The Girl from the Other Side’ that solely use black and white images. I wanted to find books with pictures under the brief ‘monochrome’. I then scanned these in…

I have never really struggled to piece together images or objects that I believe look beautiful in arrangement with one another. I find it exciting to analyse details or tones that complement one another. So when given a task to find images that do just that, I began choosing fairly quickly, ripping them out of…