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Daniel Nugent
11-P
Candidate Information
help of many and would like to take the time out to thank and show my
appreciation of their help. Firstly, I would like to thank the Lord for giving me the
strength, focus and courage to press on throughout the journey it took to get my
School Base Assessment done. Secondly, I would like to thank my aunt and uncle,
Navette Barham for assisting me in typing up this SBA and Nickolee Barham for
his continued support and inspiration. Thirdly, I would like to extend thanks to my
My name is Daniel Nugent. The reason why I chose to do Visual Arts is because of
many reasons. Firstly, it prompts me to take up the challenge, creating an
admirable work of art is not that easy. Giving shape and colors to what is on my
mind is always a challenge that I must accomplish. Every artist takes this challenge
up and proceeds through the adventurous journey of creating the artwork he always
wanted to relish. Secondly, I can be proud of myself, the feeling of creating
something good is beyond explanation. Adoring that artwork, you completed this
weekend is a great way to build self-esteem. What more? You can show it to
people, impress your friends, post it on your WhatsApp status etc.
The moments shared between me and my artworks are awesome moments. One
thing my aunt always say is ‘if it feels like you make art, you are an artist’.
WHO AM I STATEMENT?
My name is Daniel Nugent. I am fifteen (15) years old, I am from Spanish
Town, St. Catherine Jamaica. I started creating/building things from I was abought
4 years old, from then I knew I had a love for art. I started making projects such as:
stickman figures, animals and toy cars from old boxes, bottles, and wires. As a
child I had a wide imagination, hence the weird look most of my creations gave
off. Some of my works often reflected nature because I liked the look of nature.
One of my art projects is a sculpture. I created this while in high school, it was
made with glue, paper, stones, and wood. It represents cave men in the past. In this
art piece they were sitting at a fire talking. As I portrayed my love for nature above
hence my reason for adding all the stones, trees and plants that were present in this
I think visual art is art forms that creates works that are primarily visual in nature,
such as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts,
photography, video, film making and architecture. These definitions should not be
taken too strictly as many artistic disciplines (performing arts, conceptual art,
textile arts) involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also
included within the visual arts are the applied arts such as industrial design,
graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art.
The current usage of the term "visual arts" includes fine art as well as the applied,
decorative arts and crafts, but this was not always the case. Before the Arts and
Crafts Movement in Britain and elsewhere at the turn of the 20th century, the term
'artist' was often restricted to a person working in the fine arts (such as painting,
sculpture, or printmaking) and not the handicraft, craft, or applied art media. The
distinction was emphasized by artists of the Arts and Crafts Movement who valued
vernacular art forms as much as high forms. Art schools made a distinction
between the fine arts and the crafts maintaining that a craftsperson could not be
considered a practitioner of art
Artist Study
educated at the Prestigious Royal College of art in London and attended several
sculptors Basil Watson and Raymond Watson. Watson is the subject of Lennie
From that future – from what literature professor Nijah Cunningham termed, in his
eponymous 2017 essay, ‘the nonarrival of black freedom’ – I am not saying
anything that we don’t know, either through intense study or hard living.
Spectacular representations of brutality against black people in liberal media elude
the quotidian violence meted out across the gendered globe. No matter how
beautifully Watson portrays these Jamaican women – no matter how much
gratitude is bestowed upon them for their labours in post-independence nation-
building projects, in forging supportive social relationships, in promoting the
‘values’ of revolution – liberation and insurgency do not altogether countermand
gender-based violence.
In writing this piece, I attempted to answer the following question: What do
Watson’s exemplary depictions of unnamed women in the Caribbean postcolonial
canon do for our understanding of bonds and of gathering? I refuse to redeem
them. I also hesitate at wanting these anonymous women to do anything at all:
heroine-worship of the mass blunts its struggle.
Name: Conversation
Created in 1981 from oil on canvas.
Size:141 x106 cm
Black women bear the burden of racialization, sexualization and nationalization by
effectively and theoretically being excluded from those categorizes (black, woman,
citizen). I say this with the awareness that, as Gayatri Chakravarty Spivak said in
conversation with Angela Davis during the 2018 ‘Planetary Utopias’ symposium:
‘The United States is not the model of the world.’ Even as the world’s superpower
enacts its terror through media, monolingualism, forever war.
As today’s many-gendered black masses dance and fight in the face of the police,
from Minneapolis to Port of Spain, I recall Kingston’s Tivoli incursion of 2010 –
sparked by armed conflict between police and a major drugs cartel – and the killing
of Susan Bogle, a 44-year-old disabled woman murdered by police in her August
Town home in May. Just as, before that, my Jamaican father recalled during the
1970s the aftermath of US anti-communist policies, the violent export of
democracy. But I also remember other things my father left me. I was born into an
intimate violence I now see invoked by socialists and liberals alike in a bid to
destroy abolition. Revisiting Watson’s Mother and Child, I find myself
preoccupied by promises of home and family, while living their failures and
attempting to refuse them.
ELEMENTS OF ART
What are Elements of Art?
Elements of Art are stylistic features that are included within an art piece to help
the artist communicate. The seven most common elements include:
Line
Shape
Texture
Form
Space
Colour
Value
Line is a mark made by a pointed tool such as a brush, pen, or stick ; a moving
point.
Shape is a flat, enclosed area that has two-dimension, length and width. Artist use
both geometric and organic shapes
Texture describes the feel of an actual surface. The surface quality of an object;
can be real or implied.
Form are objects that are three-dimensional having length, width, and height. They
can be viewed from many sides. Forms take up space and value.
Space is used to create the illusion of depth. Space can be two-dimensional, three-
dimensional, negative and/or positive.
Colour is one of the most dominant elements. It is created by light. There are three
properties of colour; Hue(name,) Value (shades and tints,) and
Intensity(brightness.)
The principles of art represent how the artist uses the elements of art to create an
effect and to help convey the intent. The principles of art and design are
Balance
Contrast
Emphasis
Movement
Pattern
Rhythm
unity/variety.
Balance is a distribution of visual weight on either side of the vertical axis.
center of interest or focal point. It is the place in which an Artist draws you eye to
first.
Movement is how the eye moves through the composition, leading the attention of
the viewer from one aspect of the work to another. Can create the illusion of
action.
Pattern is the repetition of specific visual elements such as a unit shape or form. A
and interest.
Unity is visually pleasing agreement among the elements in a design; It is the
feeling that everything in the work of Art works together and looks like it fits.
OPTION DESCRIPTION
SCULPTURE
Sculpture, an artistic form in which hard or plastic materials are worked into three-
dimensional art objects. The designs may be embodied in freestanding objects, in
reliefs on surfaces, or in environments ranging from tableaux to contexts that
envelop the spectator. A sculptor is a highly creative fine artist who develops ideas
for sculptures or statues and makes them come to life in three-dimensional form by
joining or molding materials together. Sculptors typically work with hard materials
like stone, marble, glass, metal, wood, or ice.
Ceramics are all around us. This category of materials includes things like
tile, bricks, plates, glass, and toilets. Ceramics can be found in products like
watches (quartz tuning forks-the time keeping devices in watches), snow skies
(piezoelectric-ceramics that stress when a voltage is applied to them), automobiles
(sparkplugs and ceramic engine parts found in racecars), and phone lines. They
can also be found on space shuttles, appliances (enamel coatings), and airplanes
(nose cones). Depending on their method of formation, ceramics can be dense or
lightweight. Typically, they will demonstrate excellent strength and hardness
properties; however, they are often brittle in nature. Ceramics can also be formed
to serve as electrically conductive materials, objects allowing electricity to pass
through their mass, or insulators, materials preventing the flow of
electricity. Some ceramics, like superconductors, also display magnetic properties.
Three are three types of ceramics. These are earthenware, stoneware and
porcelain clay.
EARTHENWARE CLAY
STONEWARE CLAY
PROCELAIN CLAY
There are four (4) techniques used to create art
pieces.
This piece is also a textile and manipulation artwork. This piece is similar to the
one above with the same creation process but with different designs.
Creation Process:
Firstly, I had to pick a design from the web and trace it out. I
then started to print using purple as my main colour.
For this piece of artwork, I was originally going for a rag that can be use on my
face. This piece is one of a kind along with the pod of dolphin piece.
Creation Process:
Firstly, I chose two designs from the internet to use on my fabric. I also went ahead
and carved them out onto materials that are suitable for printing such as plastic,
thick paper or thin cardboard.
Secondly, I started to print using red water-based ink for the bull using the dip
method.
Lastly, I then sewed the edges to make my piece presentable.
REASON FOR CHOSING SCULPTURE
AND CERAMICS.
This piece is inspirational, I had a lot of designing the project. This piece shows a
pod of dolphins riding waves of the sea. Dolphins are social mammals that interact
with one another, swim together, protect each other and hunt for food as a team.
Creation Process
Firstly, I created some dolphins at home three to be
exact.
Secondly Mr. Haye my Visual Arts teacher gave me
an idea to create waves for the dolphin to ride on.
For the paint I added blue to the waves and sprayed the dolphins gray with the help
of my arts teacher Mr. Haye.
Creation Process:
Firstly, I made the castle from cardboard and using tissue
and glue to give it some texture.
At school I then painted all of the sculpture black to have
a dark background to let the gold pop more.
PIECE 3
(THE LAST VIEW)
My last piece of work is a relief sculpture representing a meadow view
in nature. In this piece I used paper mache and cardboard and a little
clay. I wanted to create a scenery out in nature.
Creation Process:
Firstly, I sketched what I was going to do in the frame.
I went ahead and painted the sculpture using secondary colors and for the finishing
touch I painted the frame in black.
PRELIMINARY SKETCHES
ADITIONAL ARTWORKS
These are some artworks that I didn’t get to finish due to insufficient time.
This entire piece was created from paper and used
canvas in the background and painted it white.
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