WIP Growing mycelium into a face form I started this process weeks ago with 2 faces. One had a great mushroom flush within 2 weeks, but the body/construct was crumbling so I discarded it for recycling (composting another work which is outside in the garden). It seems the growing medium should have much more paper […]
CONSIDERING COLLABORATION, NEW MATERIALISM and DEVELOPING the BODY of WORK It became important to consider mushrooms and lichen as a subject matter, and look at their potential as a medium. From Tsing, I learned that collaboration could be ‘multi-sited‘. Opportunities to forage opened up in the winter of 2022. I saw the potential for involved […]
CONSIDERING COLLABORATION, NEW MATERIALISM and DEVELOPING the BODY of WORK I want to show the materials and processes I used to develop this body of work over time, starting with the PP till September 2022. Considering a collaboration with mushrooms as my making for this project: By now I had the opportunity to do more […]
CONSIDERING COLLABORATION, NEW MATERIALISM and DEVELOPING the BODY of WORK In this part I am using my research into the mushroom as material to consider making and working with. 4.1. INK from FUNGI Sheldrake writes about how hard it is for things to make sense to you, without a ‘little part of that something rubbing […]
This part of the body of work which I present as a separate blog started in September 2022 and will be ongoing by the time of the final Assessment date I need to comply with. (15 October 2022) I present it as a form of documentation about how my understanding of my making developed in […]
4 October 2022 The body of work which I created for Studio Practice was informed by experimentation with gestural mark-making, painting explorations about space, bodily presence, materiality, objects and the agency of the non-living and text. I did autonomous research on the Fungal Kingdom, and artists who work with Fungi. Growing and painting fungi as […]
Considering representation and intent in my making around the form of the veiled mushroom Painting a mushroom using the organic form I made with foam as an inspiration developed out of ideas after looking at the potential of paint to create the form as well as surface (Part Four of the course material). I would […]
ARTISTS WHOM I CONSIDER AND RESEARCH Artists I researched and were inspired by are Cy Twombly, John Ruskin, William Kentridge, Eva Hesse, Xiaojing Yan, Ian Kiaer, John Cage, Rodney Graham, Lynda Benglis, OCA-EU collaborating student group working as WWW, in particular Annette Holtkamp. This list will grow or change as I work on my project, […]
MATERIAL THINKING AND MAKING I LIKE OBJECTS I have a little cabinet, I call my wunder-cabinet, in my studio. I like to fill it with found objects, it changes over time and is always a place of inspiration for my making and ideas, see photographic images below which was taken at different times over this […]
My tutor set up this last meeting but I am assured that I can still share revisions on my CR with her within the next few weeks up until the end of July, before the Summer Break in the UK. We start by looking at the Assessment Mark sheet and reflect on that alongside my […]