Diana Al-Hadid, Vlad Kulkov and Cameron Robbins

Diana Al-Hadid

Untitled- 2011- 106X155cm

When you first look at theses ink drawings it is hard to figure out exactly what they are about, but at a second look you can begin to see the structures within them. I wanted to look at this artist because of the first visual connection I had with the work which was the drips. However no I look more closely at the work I can see that there isn't so much of an atheistic connection. Al-Hadid has a great passion for structures and creates art about the structures that most interest her. She is more commonly a sculpture and is famous for creating them out of a load of materials that you can buy anywhere really.

This is a very similar case with her drawings; even though they look simple enough they are made with many different media such as paint, charcoal, turps. Al-Hadid likes to almost put her materials to the test by applying them, she moves them around, erases them, conflicts them against each other to create accidental encounters that with either make or break the work. If they don't work she simply creates another layer over the top. I think that this is something that I need to take from the artist; don't be too precious with the work and if it doesn't go to plan work with it.

She often refers to her work as "battlegrounds" as if she was at war with her work. Because of the way of working the structure in the middle becomes to look suspended and floating. This is something I really like it adds a surrealist feel to it and doesn't pin it down with reality.

http://www.d+
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Vlad Kulkov

Excessive Mutant Character -2009- 151X120cm

I looked at this art because at a first glance the forms are very similar to my latest paintings and drawings. Kulkov works in a very precise way the pen strokes are very neat and exact, they are all the same distance apart and are all the same length. This creates something that is very majestic; in areas the lines are clear in others they are blurred.  

Kulkov is very interested in radioactive waste this is how he imagines it to look like. He wants the shapes to look destructive, as if they are eating you up, but he also wants them to be silent which is why small marks are used as it is a silent killer. The drawings themselves look innocent, but you can see from the areas of darkness in the colouring that there is something lurking there.

I really like the uniform use of line in the work I think that this might influence my work into maybe becoming a bit neater and organise rather that such an explosion I want it to be more subtle.

http://www.reginagallery.com/artists/kulkov
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Cameron Robbins

08.05.2010; 5.50pm-2010- 55X75cm

Robbins is an inventor of drawing machines; he has a fascination of mark making which is obviously why I have looked at him. His work is a result of a constant experimentation of the testing of materials against nature, he uses wind, light and water to power his machines to create these drawings. He has been creating work and its starts raining which is when he gets these large drippy areas which I think really add an element of uncertainty to his paintings.

The shapes that are created are really pretty and they do reflect the process that he is working with, they are very natural forms. His work is more about the process that goes into it rather than the final outcome, which was the same as me in my early stages in the project if not now. The actual devices that he uses to create these works are really interesting, they are made up of everyday materials that he finds lying around.

If he is going to produce a series of drawings that are specifically about water he will uses things that relate to water when creating his drawing machine. There is a lot of thought that goes into the work and I think that is something that I need to do with mine. I need to this of a specific routine or way that I will produce my work in.

http://cameronrobbins.com/