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Bishops Art Prize - Research & Intention


I have been putting off recapping my notes for the Bishops Art Prize as i have been trying to focus on my degree piece. I wanted to understand and feel confident with what i was producing for the degree show before focusing on another project. In the past i have found that looking at other projects before full understanding the project i am currently working on results in me often leaving things unfinished or that the outcome isn't fully explored.

Recapping my notes was helped refresh my mind and help possible avenues for investigation to generate. The tings i have taken from my notes with the most prominence to me will be what i used to inform my sculpture. Mind map in research file (supporting documentation) -


  • desert - bleak wilderness, dry, sand, no sign of life
  • God gave water a purpose, yet it can break free and cause devastation - tsunami, floods
  • water is a necessity, yet it is a gift that is being possessed causing war as well as wealth - people profiting from it (morally wrong)
  • parting of the dead sea - deliverance of slavery, oppression and death
  • Moses striking rock to revile water
  • holy water - baptism, all religious praise water


Ideas prominent in sketch book -


  • freezing of water in a stone like matter - slowly melt
  • resin used as water 
  • tap flowing out sand - could this be made so it works 
  • frozen money
  • tap presented on rock
  • sand - creating a bleak exile
  • stone sculpture of something living - dehydration 

All ideas are developing and will likely evolve and change.

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