![]() We have lots of things around us that we don’t use, yet at the same time, these things are being produced from scratch using raw materials. I wanted to encourage people through an artwork to purchase goods secondhand and put the things that are sitting around them reused. This is where the core concept for THE FINAL BID started to develop. We should either use things for a long time because they’re well made, or reuse them, encouraging a circular rather than a linear economy. So, we need to be thinking about how to reduce our consumption of goods at source, which means that we don’t need to recycle them. When your purchases come in lots of recyclable packaging, you think, “Okay, that’s fine.” But recycling takes an enormous amount of energy, mostly supplied by fossil fuels, and this leads to a massive carbon output. The principles supporting net zero allow us to continue life as normal, mitigating travel by plane through planting trees, for example. Recycling-like net zero-is a bit of an excuse. I started to think about the supply chain and the difference between recycling and reuse. At the same time, I was trying to think of positive ways of encouraging lifestyle change. I used air pollution as a back door into discussions around climate change and how we could change people’s lifestyles. One was the POLLUTION PODS, which was essentially a dystopian idea, exploring how air pollution affects our everyday life and how the causes of air pollution are very similar to the causes of climate change (fig. I then whittled these ideas down to just two. I developed about fifteen ideas at the time, in response to conversations with the psychologists who were studying how art can change people’s perceptions of climate change. See the complete George Fry Gallery 2022-2023 schedule.MP: I first started to conceptualize the project THE FINAL BID whilst I was under- taking a residency in Norway with a group of environmental psychologists. “A lot of drawing happens in your mind before it makes it to your hand.”Īdmire the countless hours of effort and strategy that go into our daily items and peek inside the minds of the artists creating them from concept to creation. “We want to see with fresh eyes so that we can create imagery that is unique,” says Thomson. ![]() Jewellery/Metal Arts students detail renderings and measurements for a client’s ring a ceramic student designs various forms of mugs and vessels before throwing the clay textile designers create patterns through exploratory gridwork videographers storyboard their scenes before shooting-it all comes back to foundational drawing skills and translating ideas to paper. Analog and digital drawing strategies are customized practice for each studio. Students build on these foundational skills as they continue into a diploma program: 3D Digital Design, Ceramics, Fashion Design, Graphic Design, Jewellery/Metals Arts, Photography/Videography, Textile Design, Wabanaki Visual Arts. “Are you really seeing? What is your brain editing out? Can you understand the forms around you in a deeper way?”Įvery student at the New Brunswick College of Craft & Design (NBCCD) studies drawing, along with 2D and 3D design, colour study, and other foundational art and design courses. “Drawing from observation starts with re-considering our habits of perception and how we interpret the world around us,” says NBCCD Drawing Studio Head and Instructor Christina Thomson. The George Fry Gallery is a space for showcase but equally important, a space for learning and history. Instead of viewing a polished final product, peek behind the scenes and see the process through layers of preliminary sketches, drawings, brainstorming, and ideas presented with the finished artwork. Masks required.Īttend the opening reception (everyone welcome)Ĭome and see an exhibition of fine craft with a twist. NBCCD’s Drawing Studio intends to ‘Pull Back the Curtain’ on this process in an exhibition of the same name at the George Fry Gallery with works from all college studios, opening Decemfrom 4-6pm, and running Monday-Friday, 10am – 4pm, until January 17, 2023. Your bowl, scarf, business card, jeans, and necklace started as a scribble. It’s the early drafts of an article the ingredients of a tasty treat. PULL BACK THE CURTAIN - a drawing exhibitionĭrawing is vital for design work.
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