Martin Creed

Martin Creed (born 1968) is a British artist and musician.  He won the Turner Prize in 2001 for exhibitions during the preceding year, with the jury praising his audacity for exhibiting a single installation, Work No. 227: The lights going on and off, in the Turner Prize show.  Creed lives and works in London. 

For this experimentation with Paper I focused on the artist Martin Creed.  Creed is looking at a sense of possibility.  He is experimenting with the shape of the ball and also into the creases that can be made onto the paper as shadows and lines.

My aim was to use Martin Creed as inspiration to produce my own set of photographs from and experimental photoshoot.  This included experimenting with the different positions of the paper and where in frame it sat but also what effects I could create with the creases in the paper and also different paper textures such as plain white paper and also tracing paper.

 

I have done experiments with the angles I have taken of the paper and how I have positioned the different sheets to form one image to create different compositions.  I have tried to experiment with the different traps of light between the creases of the paper to create different tones in the final photographs.

I often used the flash when creating my photographs, I did this to experiment with the amount of light I could hold and experiment with to see different outcomes of tone and exposure as I photographed the paper.

Final Chosen Photograph