Charley Slader – Rhi Johnson

VIS1020 Module 1 Crazy Creature Soft Sculpture

Artist Statement About Crazy Creature Soft Sculpture

For my resolved crazy creature for module 1, I wanted to experiment with combining the animals that I love most. I first started with a raccoon base consisting of the raccoon’s legs, arms, hands, feet, body and tail since I love how structurally interesting a raccoon’s anatomy is. I then added on a fox’s head since I have always been interested in the anatomy of a fox’s head, specifically its snout. I then finished the piece with my favourite animal, a Doberman, specifically their ears, since I have a Doberman, and its ears are structurally interesting. By combining my favourite animal anatomies, I created my crazy creature sculpture.

Crazy Creature Soft Sculpture|(Raccoon body, arms, legs, tail, hands and feet, Fox head and Doberman ears), Various textiles (velvet, felt, leather and cotton), 18×63 CM

VIS1020 Module 1 Ceramics Pinch Pot Small Bowls and Cups

Artist Statement About Ceramic Pinch Pot Bowls and Cups

For my module 1 ceramics bowls and cups, I wanted to express the idea of food within ceramics. This idea comes from my emerging artistic concept surrounding my unhealthy coping mechanisms when it comes to food. The set of bowls on the surface is just a collection of foods made into ceramics. Underneath the surface, they are all foods that were once foods that were safe foods or things I would have with my safe foods (lemon and lime) that I would eat if I didn’t want to eat anything else. Similarly, the cups are also designed to look like foods that were once my safe foods. I wanted to represent this visually by making the ceramics as life-like as possible while still having them be functional cups and bowls.