Jake Wise Fine Art

'The Wall' This cross course collaboration bore some interesting results as far as the means of collaborating with a subject that can sometimes feel so distant to fine art, the concept and ideology behind the piece of work was quite hard to express at first as the graphics students were thinking in a rather literal sense rather than delving a little deeper into the thought process. Expelling this their literal approach to the project brought my level of conceptual thinking to a rather rational level, which allowed me to concentrate on the actual creation and practicality of the project rather than the meaning in that time. The collaboration offered an insight into how two like-mind thinkers in the sense of social and environmental views can think so alternate in terms of practise and work process.  The project itself is just the start of a concept i want to take further and eventually make it into  community event in which people from all walks of life whether they share t...

Kaitlin’s practice is a series of investigations into human encounters with extreme and unfamiliar natural landscapes. The methodologies and outcomes of Kaitlin’s work are multi-disciplinary and engage with the continuous dialogue we have with the environment, responding to direct personal experience of the scale and physicality of geological wonders, and a range of emotive secondary sources. Historical accounts of explorers who journeyed to Deception Island, an active volcano in the Antarctica Peninsula, through to Mount Everest, the highest point on earth, have proved a powerful stimulus.  The translation of human experience of place, across time and media, highlights our enduring fascination with the formation of our planet, and a desire to explore our changing relationship to it. Kaitlins practise has a subtle resemblance to that of my own as far a using the natural world as something to work alongside and with rather than just passing commentary...

BRICK; WATER; MAN; PROCESS  COLLABORATIVE SCULPTURE COLLABORATIVE SYMBOLISM AND SIGNS 'Our structures are built readily to sustain the growth of humanity. An ever expanding population finds demand in new places. Land art often pushes nature to its limits and ironically re configures the relationship man has with nature. This work aims to step away from this. Combining a structural concept of societal rules and hierarchy. Together, re building a wall from bricks located along local coastline. These bricks, once used by man, in a process of development. Now wash back ashore in a stark symbolism of regression. A step back from a progressive sustained future. The crumbling surroundings only further the reminder of the temporary. Each interaction with each brick highlights the entire process. The improvised wall style unable to house removes the label of ‘wall’. The material becomes an echo of the process it was part of, born into a society based on fast interests. The artists consi...