Limbo Exhibition

It is getting ever closer to Limbo. The final exhibition for me and many others at University of Wales Trinity St David Swansea, and here are a progression images to show you what I am working on.

Visit http://www.limboexhibition.co.uk/ to have a better look at the artists we have on offer in Limbo.

New website

The blog will still carry on here, but I have a new website with a temporary address of http://jdthomas7.wix.com/jordan-thomas however will soon be moving to www.jordanthomasartworks.co.uk in the near future

Working towards the degree

Unfortunately I have not been able to update this much due to dissertations and other assignments, so here is  few of the things I have been working towards;

And finally here is the beginning of Limbo. An exhibition opening on may the 23rd at UWTSD Swansea, Dynevor Campus. I hope to turn the space bellow into a Turellesque environment using colour and light to explore the phenomena of colour.

More of my Ferrofluid works

Estranged Royalties

 Rebel

Riot

 

Simple Impurities

These pieces stem from my ferrofluid work; in which I am carrying on experimenting with what I can achieve using ferrofluid and various density watercolours as well as magnetic forces, striving to create the most interesting aesthetic effects possible.

Realised it had been a bit of a while

This is one of the resulting exhibitions stemming from my work into the exploration of what colour is, its primary and secondary qualitatives alongside its cultural and societal backgrounds, culminating in a witnessed phenomena of colour within the viewer.

Just a bit of documentation of some of my work, I think it illustrates some of what I am doing, while still keeping an aesthetic beauty, so I thought I should include it.

Ultramarine purple. A pigment which seems to encompass that of two of the most royal colours to ever gross the artist palette and I think it holds its own beauty while illustrating just how lucrative colour language really is.

This image was a part of one of my recent exhibitions at the university, illustrating the beauty of raw pigments which has inspired so many famous artists through the year, including Yves Klein, who once said "what luster, what ancient brilliance" in response to seeing the raw elements of paint, going on to show his dismay in how this beauty is lost in the mediums of his day, an idea perpetuated by Anish Kapor.

My blue room, an exhibition displaying the phenomena and subversiveness of colour, while attempting to illustrate some of the theories of contrast and harmony laid out by some of the greatest colour theorists and scientists of time, such as; Michel Eugène Chevreul, Ogden Rood, James Clerk Maxwell and George Field. The next four images display some of the elements of this instalation

This final image displays some of the strangest, most valuable and toxic paints we have ever used. Having created these paints from their raw pigments provided a lot of fun, although incredibly dangerous and should not be tried at home without the correct precautions. From left to right the paints are made from; a derivative of cynaide, lapis lazuli, ultramarine, cobalt and mercury sulphide. The green, yellow and red have all claimed many many lives in their lifetime, yet I think they hold some of the most beautiful colour paint I have ever come across, I am not sure if this picture really does them justice.

Advancing

 Chemical formation 945 - Carrying on with my ferrofluid sculptures I decided to create a mixture of colours within singular lakes of one another. I found it to create a movement and feeling within its area. I feel it tells a story in itself of horror and hope, dominated by the upper class of Purple royalty.

 This image was created during my experiments with conjuring colour. I have been going through the motions of creating my own paints, choosing to start with ultramarine due to its transcendent nature. Although this pigment is the synthetic modern day pigment. As the oil was laid across it, I noticed its inspired similarities to the original pigment, Lapis Lazuli and went about documenting this image.

 This is the documentation of the current progression in my exploration of colour chemistry as a response to my dissertation research. This series will eventually be moved into an exhibition room to create an installation based on the chemistry of colour, to hopefully get people to think about and understand their materials more in depth.

 All of the colours within these works have been created by paint I have made myself in the studio, there is currently a royal purple and a white canvas drying to complete the series. Each colour will have its own in depth description below it in the final installation sharing my knowledge of its historical and scientific backgrounds.

Back into the studio at last

Back to uni heralds the new possibilities of open plan exhibition rooms to be taken over by crazed art students, I commandeered one for its lighting and have kick started the daunting third year ceremonies with images such as these.