Priley Riley, Developed cast and storage desk, 24th- 26th October 2014

Last Friday I made a plaster cast of my hand holding the plaster heart that I made the previous week (so the two works are now joined together, which I think makes the heart cast look much better). Photos of the developed cast are shown above, from different angles. I then spent my weekend working in a team with 3 other students to build a storage desk which will be used by Loughborough University. The workshop was lead by artist Maria Pask and craftsman Peter Leadbeater, although we constructed it with minimal help, using an idea I had from a book, and from planks of old pieces of found wood. We then finished by carving our names into the desk. I've included a few photos of the event and final storage desk below- I’m in the black trousers with red stripes.

Priley Riley, An update on my work on the heart, October 2014

A quick summary of my work over the past few weeks!; I have made 3 A3 size canvases to use for more portrait paintings, modelled a life-size clay heart that I intend on having fired in a kiln (see the top photo), made a plaster cast of a heart using a real lamb’s heart (the 2^nd photo shows a stage of me making it, the 3^rd shows the final outcome), made a vinyl/ rubber mould from the plaster cast (the 4^th photo shows a stage of me making it, the 5^th and 6^th show the two halves that make up the final mould), and have used the rubber mould to cast 2 hearts in wax (the ^7th photo shows the front of one of the wax hearts, the ^8th shows the back of the same piece). I have also made a cardboard cut-out of the heart and the word heart combined (see the 9^th photo) as well as a few quick pieces in plaster (such as the piece in the final photo, where I carved a drawing of a heart into plaster).  I have been researching the heart using British Heart Foundation resources and am developing science based ideas for my art work as a result of this research. I have also been working on written assignments for my course.