My Concerns in Context: Reference Points

Miroslaw Balka: How It Is
Installation at the Tate Modern.

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Daniel Libeskind: Imperial War Museum North
Salford, Manchester.

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From 'Newark Abbey' by Thomas Love Peacock

I gaze, where August’s sunbeam falls

Along these grey and lonely walls,

Till in its light absorbed appears

The lapse of five and thirty years.

If change there be, I trace it not

In all this consecrated spot:

No new imprint of Ruin’s march

On roofless wall and frameless arch:

The hills, the woods, the fields, the stream,

Are basking in the self-same beam:

The fall, that turns the unseen mill

As then it murmured, murmurs still:

It seems, as if in one were cast

The present and the imaged past.

Spanning as with bridge sublime,

That awful lapse of human time,

That gulph, unfathomably spread

Between the living and the dead.

For all too well my spirit feels

The only change this place reveals:

The sunbeams play, the breezes stir,

Unseen, unfelt, unheard by her,

Who, on that long-past August day,

First saw with me those ruins grey.

Anselm Kiefer: Lilith

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An Introduction

Originally from East Yorkshire, I completed my BA Hons. in Interior Design at Leeds Metropolitan University.  With a background in fine art and an enduring interest in the influence of 2D and 3D visual arts in society, I am passionate about applying conceptual interdisciplinary elements and aesthetics to create atmosphere in the wider built environment.  I have the keenest interest in public spaces such as bespoke museum buildings, installations and contemporary religious sites, which convey purpose and ambience.

Whilst studying for BA Hons. Interior Design I welcomed confrontation with challenging projects, sometimes dealing with sensitive subject matter, and developed a highly conceptual method of initialising ideas.  The images below are taken from my final BA project: the design of a Register Office.  The scheme strives to provide a sacred and sensitive atmosphere in the context of a progression through secular spaces, in which the antonymous combination of births, deaths and marriages would be registered.

Images from Register Office project, L-R: Waiting area for registration of deaths, Conceptual artwork for a contemplation space.

In completing a Masters course at Chelsea College, I endeavour to nurture my critical and conceptual thought process through extended research and interdisciplinary exploration: drawing inspiration from the fine art discipline in order to deepen my understanding of contemporary atmospheric spaces, and exploring the inherent connection between interior and exterior architectural forms.