Influences

I  used ‘The Book Of Art’ as my inspiration for this piece that I have created.
I liked the diverse images within the book and the different things they represented. I was inspired by this and wanted to create my own representative artwork. Obviously my piece had to be site specific, and with my site being the University Library, I set about researching the Central Warehouse and it’s uses.
I discovered that the trainline used to run by the side of the library, and collect goods and grain to take to different areas around lincolnshire. These areas were Lincoln, Coningsby, Tumby Woodside, New Bolingstoke, Stickney and Midville. This gave me the idea of having six different art pieces to represent each station.
I chose the location of the third floor because often it’s striking architextual features are ignored. Students come to this floor to work silently and concentrate on their work. This means the features, such as the beamwork and brickwork are never acknowledged. I wanted to emphasis these precious features with art pieces, especially emphasising the original brickwork. I also wanted my piece to be seen and not heard, I wanted the pieces to speak for themselves and so I also chose the silent floor for this reason.
I wanted to use and explore diverse and unusual materials for my piece, this would help my work to stand out against any usual paintings or drawings that could be considered ‘uninteresting’ and fail to capture the attention of passing students. I wanted my pieces to stand out visually but also be directly related to the current library and also it’s history and how that has affected it’s uses.
My pieces are stationary and somewhat abstract, made from diverese materials such as wood, string, tin, grain, book pages and book covers. These pieces represent each individual station by carrying the name of the station upon them. Although the artwork is more of a direct link to the library and it’s history, rather than the station itself.