Introduction When working on Part 5 different text alignment, font types and/or typography and ways of displaying a written document came to mind. I was thinking to make a visualization of my PP, which can become a work in progress to develop further after this course ends. I felt a need to move away from […]
Work I have been looking at that influence my making Omani Pavillion: Radhika Khimji I was not able to visit the Biennale and was made aware of this work by a fellow student of the OCA EU group who visited the Bienalle and shared images. The Omani exhibition, titled ‘Destined Imaginaries’, brings together five Omani […]
Lines Squiggles and Webs PART ONE OF A TWO-PART WORKSHOP ( Saturday 30 April, next Saturday 28 May) The main ideas of the cross-disciplinary workshop are to investigate visual responses to music/sound, look at improvisation and explore the fine line between chaos and coherence. Soon into the workshop, we joined Carla by making along with […]
Zoom session: 28 April 2022 Format of this blog: I suggest that ai will change the current format, as it is one long ongoing piece of writing and work. I should consider how the assessors will find links on specific topics. It is important that my own discernment is also noticed and marked. I have […]
THE CRITICAL REVIEW Introduction This review looks at materiality and suggests it is a willful agent within my making process. Setting out to use a practice-led research approach during this course by considering not only paint as a material, led to the exploration of charcoal, ink, and sculpture with clay, foam, wire, paper, cement and […]
Zoom session with tutor dr Michele Whiting on Thursday 03/03/2022 The session will first focus on my Parallel Project, as well as ideas around the Critical Review. Parallel Project Sharing the screen my tutor asked me to talk about making of Fig 1 – Mycelium painting and then moved to Fig. 8. She wants to […]
Reflective account My ideas to develop the work were around hiding and concealing words. This idea was inspired by a work of a local artist that I saw recently and I wanted my work to consider using erasure and layers in a personal way. I decided to write about things that concern me and sometimes […]
WRITING OUT OF THE PARALLEL PROJECT Exercise 4 Writing an artist’s statement Method used Looking at the guidelines on how to write an artists statement as shown on the Artquest website and provided as LINK 43 Read the advice and guidance: How to write about contemporary Art Artist’s statement (pdf provided) The following notes are […]
EXPLORE THE ROLE OF THE TITLE – LOCATING TITLES From a contextual point, I am asked to focus on the conceptual work, An Oak Tree, by the artist, Michael Craig Martin. I have to consider the relationship between the objects, the title, and the text. Notes will be made below in which I discuss my […]
PARALLEL PROJECT EXERCISE 2. REFLECTIVE RESOLVING WORK MADE, LOOK AT PAUSED OR CONCLUDED WORK My biggest attempt for resolving the work I have started is to connect the literal with explorative work and show the processes of making. I have done theoretical and visual research and feel that from a contextual point of view the […]