静态的“旅行感”：UAL油画学生展出壁画作品
伦敦艺术大学广州招生代表处 | 2021-05-14
2013年以来，伦敦艺术大学开展“Big Walls and Windows”项目，为全校纯美术专业的学生提供了在校园内临时展出自己作品的机会。经过激烈的竞争和选拔，坎伯韦尔艺术学院纯美术：油画本科（BA Fine Art: Painting）大二学生Sarah Savage被选中参加2021年的“Big Walls and Windows”项目展览。她参展的方案是在坎伯韦尔艺术学院入口处的墙上创作一幅大型壁画。
Big Walls and Windows 2021 winner, Sarah Savage with her finished mural. Photographer Iman Osman
Sarah出生在北爱尔兰，她的作品大多是写实性的风景画。在这次参展的壁画中，她使用了一些在旅行时道路上常见的符号，使得静态的壁画拥有“旅行感”，其中的图案象征着限制、自由和人与车辆之间的运动。
Sarah Savage's winning design proposal
在过去的几周里，Sarah投入了艰苦的创作中。现在整个作品已经完成，壁画已向公众开放，Sarah也接受了UAL官网的采访，谈到这幅作品背后的点滴。
Sarah Savage's murul, winner of Big Walls and Windows Project 2021. Photographer Iman Osman
Sarah是在接近“Big Walls and Windows”项目征集展品的截止日期前才决定参加选拔的，她认为自己的作品还不够好，此前也没画过这么大型的壁画。但当投入创作后，她意识到唯一的约束只有自己，她决定实现突破。
Sarah Savage working on her mural. Peter Cattrell Photography
在Sarah的家乡北爱尔兰，到处可见宣传性的壁画，这种环境直接影响了她对环境和绘画的感知，她感受到这种大型画作构成的环境对人的情绪造成的影响。Sarah从未画过这类宣传性壁画，但她在自己卧室的墙上画上了塔斯马尼亚山脉的图像，这样醒来时蓝绿色的天空和群山能给她带来和大自然亲近的幸福感。她也希望通过展出的大型壁画使得所在的环境改变人们的情绪反应。
Big Walls and Windows Project 2021 | BA Fine Art: Painting student Sarah Savage's work in progress
在这幅壁画中，Sarah使用了很多材料和介质来作画，包括在颜料中加入陶瓷灰泥和泥浆，用于画出多层次的山脉褶皱，构建明暗对比的空间效果。另外还有黑色熔岩、胶带等材料。
In Conversation - Big Walls and Windows Project 2021
Sarah的作品将公开展览至2021年5月28日。
新闻原文：
Since 2013, the Big Walls and Windows Project has been an opportunity for UAL Fine Art students to realise a temporary artwork that exploits the spaces within our colleges. The project is sponsored by Cass Arts and Liquitex, who cover the material and equipment costs.
Following a competitive selection process, BA Fine Art: Painting second year student, Sarah Savage, was selected as the winner of this year's competition with her proposal for a mural which transforms a wall in Camberwell College of Arts's entrance area.
Sarah, who was born in Northern Ireland, has a practice that portrays landscapes that are almost biographical, referring to her personal memories of growing up in a segregated environment.
Sarah's winning design explores universal symbols that appear on roads on which we travel around the world. Even as a stationary mural, the artwork contributes to an existing sense of travel, where the motifs are symbolic to the notions of restrictions, freedoms, and the movements between people and vehicles.
Over the past couple of weeks Sarah has been hard at work onsite at Camberwell creating the mural.
Sarah's project is now complete and on display here at Camberwell and the mural is open to the public to view. All visitors must sign in, wear face coverings and must also adhere to government social distancing guidance.
We spoke to Sarah, to find out about her winning proposal and the creative process behind it.
Why did you enter the Big Walls and Windows Project 2021?
I wanted to do something that would associate with a cosmopolitan identification, something that could have connotations to every person in the College, with students from all over the world. I came to my familiar area which is semiotics, this directly informs our world of travel and something we all experience.
However, because of the current situation many students from abroad have decided to study at home and this almost changes the original meaning of the mural.
I entered the competition just before the closing deadline and thought that the work was not good enough. I do not usually work a such large scale and when it was selected, I still thought about making changes to the original design. Later, you realise that the sense of your work not being good enough is only subject to yourself and no-one else.
Have you had any experience of mural painting?
Coming from Northern Ireland you are surrounded by highly politicised murals, I think this has directly affected how I perceive my environments and my paintings. I have never painted any Northern Irish murals, but I think of the amount of energy you feel that has gone into them is enough to prepare someone for a big wall of their own.
Although, back in Northern Ireland the desire to live closer to nature led me to paint my bedroom walls to represent the Tasmanian Mountains. I noticed how this affected my overall outlook on life and mental health. Waking up to the constant image of a teal blue sky and mountains gave me a sense of renewed happiness and space amongst such a dreary and politicised country.
I hope my Big Walls and Windows mural could do the same, with an environment changing a person's emotional response.
What are the processes and materials you have used?
The award was funded by Cass art and Liquitex. I used so many mediums including ceramic stucco and modelling paste which I added to the paint. This allowed me to build excessive layers and almost mountainous folds, to create positive and negative spaces.
I also used black lava to paste over areas to give deeper shadows, especially under the bridge of the motorway. At the beginning, I also used masking tape to create a basic idea of the shapes before painting and to get the lines straighter.
How does it feel to be back working onsite?
It is great to finally engage socially, outside the online interface, after such a long time and distance away from college life that we are all missing.
Whilst working on the mural, which is in the entrance area of the college, I have met new people and caught up with friends from last year as they made their way to the studios.
Find out more about Sarah's practice and her proposal: watch this In Conversation event, hosted by Daniel Sturgis, Professor in Painting, with Sarah Savage, Juan Bolivar, Lecturer in Painting at Camberwell, Liesel Thomas, artist and Partnerships & Outreach Manager at Cass Art and Stephanie Nebbia, artist and Global Fine art collective Manager at Liquitex.
The exhibition is open to view at Camberwell College of Arts until Friday 28 May 2021. If you would like to see Sarah's work and you are not a UAL staff or student, you can sign in at the front desk and get a temporary pass to visit the mural.
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