Priley Riley, An update on my work, November 2014

In the last couple of weeks I have visited a number of different galleries in Leicestershire, England, including Embrace Arts, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Silver Arcade, 2 Queens Gallery, LCB Depot’s The New Incunable Print Shop, LCB Depot’s print show P2P 2014, Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre and PACE at De Montfort University. My favourite of the gallery visits was LCB Depot’s The New Incunable Print Shop, where I did a quick drawing of my hand which was 3D printed in front of me! I applied printing ink over the surface of the 3D printed hand and printed it onto paper. The 3D print will be used by The New Incunable Print Shop in posters. Photos of the original drawing, the drawing being 3D printed, the final 3D print, and the ink print that I did are shown above. I have also been working on my project on the heart by casting a red heart in resin using a vinyl/ rubber mould that I made a few weeks ago. Photos of the front and back of the resin heart are shown below. I have also started to make my own concertina style book, which I will upload photos of once completed.

Priley Riley, Face casting, October- November 2014

I had my face cast for the first time last Friday. In preparation for it, I covered my face in baby oil and put my hair into a cap out of the way. My tutor then started applying alginate to my face, shown in the first two photos. Once the alginate had set, a layer of plaster was applied over the alginate to make it stronger (see the 3^rd photo). Once the plaster had set, I was able to pull the alginate and plaster layers off in one go. As you may be able to see from the 4^th photo, however, the alginate cast you take off curves inwards instead of outwards, so I continued to work on it on Friday by applying plaster to the inside of the alginate cast. Today, as the plaster that I had laid inside had set, I was able to carefully separate the final plaster cast, shown in the final 3 photos, from the alginate one.