Ella's Fine Art Foundation Degree

The term site-specific refers to a work of art that has been tailored specifically for a particular location and that has an interrelationship with the location, and said works are not always permanent. They are temporary as well as not damaging to the environment. Site-specific art is produced by commercial artists, and independently, and can include some instances of work such as sculpture, stencil, graffiti and other art forms. Installations can be in urban or remote natural settings, and potentially underwater. As a site-specific work of art is designed for a specific location, but if it is removed from that location it will lose all or a substantial part of its meaning. The term site-specific is often used in relation to installation art, as in site-specific installation; and land art is site-specific almost by definition. The term "site-specific art" was promoted and refined by Californian artist  Robert Irwin . Still, it was first used in the mid-1970s by younger sculp

While  following up to our visit to the Erewash Museum, we began to create our own works for an exhibition that will be taking place there with inspiration from the architecture in the area of Ilkeston that the museum is in.  (St. Mary's church that I had based my works from) For me, my inspiration for this project was the St. Mary's church just down the road from the museum, as the structure and architecture of the churches had fascinated me of how they looked, thus I would be using the shapes from this building in my own pieces of work, making it the centre piece. The person that had inspired me to work on building/shapes like this is Thomas Telford  (1757 - 1834), who was Telford's most famous canal works include the 60-mile Caledonian Canal (1804-1822) and Ellesmere Canal. In the Highlands of Scotland, Telford was responsible or about 1,200 miles of new or improved roads. The architecture of these structures , even though it looks simple, has inspired me with my own, bu