Name: Ailish Allen
K Number: K00195516
Choose an artwork, design or other artefact from any time in history which has informed your studio project ‘What If?’ Using the questions provided write a brief discussion of the piece. (This piece may be for an example a garment, painting, print, sculpture, installation, piece of ceramics, photograph, animation or example of graphics design)
Word Count: 548 words
Tutor: Breda Lynch
Date: 27th October 2014
Tom Price – PP Trees
Tom Price is a British designer who draws on his training in both sculpture and design to create beautiful pieces of furniture and installation pieces such as PP Trees (2011). (Price, www.tom-price.com, Unknown)
Figure 1: PP Trees …show more content…
(Indaba, 2011) The trees are large and fill the entire space creating a fairy-tale like world in a dilapidated small room. The plastic creation does not give a realistic interpretation of what a cherry blossom grove may look like but rather evoke the feeling of being there amidst the beauty. The piece reminds me of a stage set, you can almost imagine some of the fairies from A Midsummers Night Dream frolicking around amongst the plastic tubing. The ambience of what could be perceived as a decaying room with crumbling walls and cracked concrete flooring room changes with the billowing and bending trunks and canopying blossoms that leave beautiful dappled shadows on the …show more content…
D. (2014). www.designdaysdubai.ae. Retrieved from http://www.designdaysdubai.ae/programme/public-programme-2014/friday-21-march-2014/pp-tree/
Indaba, D. (2011, November 24). http://www.designindaba.com/. Retrieved from http://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/cherry-lane
Magazine, D. Z. (2011, 11 22). www.dezeen.com. Retrieved from http://www.dezeen.com/2011/11/22/cherry-tree-by-tom-price/
MAgazine, D. Z. (2011, November 22). www.dezeen.com. Retrieved from http://www.dezeen.com/2011/11/22/cherry-tree-by-tom-price/
Parafianowicz, L. (2011, November 28). www.frameweb.com. Retrieved from http://www.frameweb.com/news/cherry-tree-installation
Price, T. (2011). www.vimeo.com. Retrieved from http://vimeo.com/51748044
Price, T. (Unknown). www.tom-price.com. Retrieved from http://www.tom-price.com/about
Bibliography
Dubai, D. D. (2014). www.designdaysdubai.ae. Retrieved from http://www.designdaysdubai.ae/programme/public-programme-2014/friday-21-march-2014/pp-tree/
Indaba, D. (2011, November 24). http://www.designindaba.com/. Retrieved from http://www.designindaba.com/articles/creative-work/cherry-lane
Magazine, D. Z. (2011, 11 22). www.dezeen.com. Retrieved from