Innovations in Illustration - Annabelle Schurhammer

For this presentation I showed my 3 explorations of different media as well as proposing a sculpture for my final illustration.  Feedback from Kerry Ann: Your work in progress was well presented, clearly showing creative references and your three illustration mediums explored. I really enjoyed your approach using text/direct quotations to respond to in each of your tests, and would be nice to keep going with this. Your work in progress offers rich possibilities in exploring this blurred boundary between imagined and real. The animal/people were interesting and again, remind me of illustrator Sue Coe. Outside of your own themes of psychosis and confinement, How might the viewer connect these ideas and experiences with your site of Kenepuru Hospital in Porirua? Try and get specific using historic reference photos and sketches from your site visits, featuring details unique to the area. Also site visits to the area now, would be from ‘the outside lo...

Top-hat man Inspired by pictures of the old asylum and one of my own hallucinations.  I call him the top hat man. Sculpture using natural air hardening clay, acrylic paint, fabric and lazorcut MDF.

Angle and devil Inspired by the quote: ''I am afraid that if it is the devil questioning me about my knowledge I may lose it, or is it the holy ghost?'' Lazorcut in MDF boord. Acrylic paint, fabric.

Don't feed the animals Inspired by the quote: ''In that situation you became an animal. You were treated like an animal and you became one. The staff seemed as strange as the patients. It was hard to tell the difference except for the uniforms.'' Acrylic  paint and pen on canvas paper that had photograph printed on it. Later turned into GIF.