Steve Lovett

artist talk today  will be steve Lovett, i honestly dont remeber listening to his lecture but hopefully i  can get some information so i can atleast write about his practice.

Steve lovett lecture from MSVA,  his practice is on screen printing base on identity and know who you are,steve has made many screen prints  and are all  fascinating. Steve has his way of screen printing how he uses the technique of collage . mixing an image together, i think what Steve is trying to do is , that hes trying to have that transparent collage effect, by doing so, he blends it together. the images he has made i personally think it looks sort of pixelated , i think his work can be more better if the image could be focused more, but that is  just my personal  opinion. when i look at his work it reminds me how they used to take photographs in the old fashion away ,  although his practice is base on screen prints. i really love his practice, using screen prints is something id love to do as one of my own practice besides photography. other elements he has  used in  his practice of screen print is digital  and his work he is trying to portray it in type of genders such as  homosexuals and the relation between men.


When you  you look at this image of Steve lovett's work, it looks  rough and you can still see  every detail of contrast and tone of the print. i kind of like his way of pursuing  his screen print career  it is different compare to other screen print artist such as Xavier Meade which  his screen prints are more similar to  Banksy and Mr Brainwash. In conclusion, Steve's practice has inspired me to do  my own screen prints and explore more ways to improve my screen printing.

Nathan Suniula

Nathan sunula is an artist born in New Zealand  graduated  in AUT  university witha certificate  of Bachelors  of visual arts and a Masters in arts and is currently  teaching in Manukau institute of Technology at MSV , mabukau school of visual arts. Nathan's Practice works  with painting and he approachees it  through his culture. Today he presented us his works of his paintings and  what  kind of material he used to paint on  and explained why he  chosen that material for his painting. he has used Flax  in exploring his ideas in  his practice,  during the lechture he explained to us that he uses the toga as a way of looking back to  his childhood days in American Samoa, the way Nathan does his paint  was really interesting and how he used science  and art to portray a reading of a language, i was fascinated  on the size of the work he  has made, it was the size of of a projector screen. The painting he did of the small  green edges, that painting i found eye capturing, because for me when i look at it , it makes me wonder and  try find a way of reading the language of  science.












" in Nathan’s artwork. Looking at the infinite nature of the universe and how it relates to the human mind, he creates fields of colour to express an infinite continuum that is part-science/part-personal history." Nathan's work   when he paints, and the paint is still wet he gets a comb and stoaks lines on top of that surface repeatedly and  "  The therapeutic process of creating grids and patterns is reflective of the Samoan ie toga and makes way for accidental discoveries the meetings and parting of lines."

I think nathan's way of exploring his  painting practice how he  uses a variety of tools to  create that motion on the layers of  the painting is very artistic.






http://www.tautai.org/nathan-suniula/
http://www.okaioceanikart.com/Artist-Detail.cfm?ArtistsID=154