Degree show | Lauren McArthur

Lauren McArthur

Making the Exhibition

Planning the Exhibition we had to figure out how we could fit everyone into the space. Adding more walls into the space was important. At this point I knew I wanted to be in the corner or the room to allow me to have the layout I wanted. I was originally going to be on…

Final Photos

Vacancy at the Bates Motel Photographic print, of miniature set Rooms for the night at the Overlook Hotel Photographic print, of miniature set Babysitting at 1537 N Orange Grove Ave Photographic print, of miniature set Women in horror are traditionally represented as hypersexual damsels in distress and have been the victims of violent males…

Making the scenes off the attacks

Now that I’ve made the sets i will now add and change to them to when after the women have been attacked. Adding blood to the scene of the bathroom as well as making the shower curtain look pulled down. Putting the hole in the door in the bedroom and breaking the glass of the…

Photographing the sets

Like Casebere I want to Photograph my miniatures to look like real life sets. I had a go at Photographing my first set and I think it looks quite effective. To heighten my work even more I want my work to really look like the films and I’m going to look at aspect ratios of…

Venice Biennale 2022

In April I visited Venice to go to the well know art event, the Venice biennale. I saw lots of art and new artists by the one that stood out to me in relation to my own practice. The French Pavilion by Zineb Sedira. Who is the first artist of Algerian descent to represent the…

The Shinning- 1980

The shinning is a film adaptation of the book by the same title from Steven King. Film Director Stanley Kubrick. Jack and his family move into an isolated hotel with a violent past. Living in isolation, Jack begins to lose his sanity, which affects his family members. Towards the end of the film where Jack…

Halloween- 1978

1978s Halloween was one of the first slasher films, along with it came the arrival of a key character in many horror films to follow the ‘Final Girl.’. traditionally female characters are seen as sexualization of motive and a victim who is a desired sexually active woman. The ‘Final Girl,’ on the other hand, is…

Small Scale Exhibition

Creating our mini gallery space to present our mini projects. This was a really good look into what our show could look like. Now I’ve seen this come all together its time to really realise my work and have a clear theme and focus to my work. Putting my original ideas about the ideas of…

Building the bathroom

After doing some research in how others create miniatures I’ve now got an idea of how it will be created I will predominately be using materials such as clay, cardboard and recycled and reused materials. I started by creating the over all room itself. Following the pattern of the travelling sculpture I used this as…

The Start of my Project

Victorian Mansions in horror The Victorian mansion ghostly presence relates back to paintings from the 1920s. The painting above on the left (House by the railroad 1925) was painted by artists Edward hopper, which shows an large house abandoned and in isolation. Throughout the 20th century pop culture imagery of similar spooky houses have reoccurred…

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