FIRST WORKSHOP WITH DIANA ALI The SECOND WORKSHOP WITH DIANA ALI WORKSHOP WITH HELEN WARBURTON: Saturday This workshop was mainly around the online exhibition space as well as online marketing on social media platforms such as Instagram. I felt my focus during this session moved to the virtual space as both experimental and experiential from […]
Introduction: After working through Part Four of this course I felt the need to explore my learning by more making and research and develop ideas for my CR at the end of the course. For my CR I would like to discuss and argue how my exploration with materials (artmaking) during this course became more […]
RESEARCH POINT 1 Looking at the intention behind artworks that use text, as well as the media used: Tracy Emin This artist is seen as making a confessional artistic project in all her work. Her messages or commentary in her use of text as art is explicit and carries messages. She uses neon tubes or […]
PROJECT 1 WORKING WITH TEXT Exercise 1. Cut-up technique Use Link 38, notes on points of interest in a talk by Ken Holdings: a cut-up can disturb a cut-up can be comic a cut-up and be strangely beautiful a cut-up reveals words and machines operating in strange ways a cut-up is started as an experiment […]
REFLECTIVE ACCOUNT DEVELOPING THIS ASSIGNMENT Looking at the ideas I have explored I wanted to consider my relationship with materials and colour. During the work on Project 5, I came to the idea of making a series of works, as paintings. Recently I have painted a still life and did lots of little works as […]
COLOUR “Painting is a physical thinking process to continue an interior dialogue,” she has said, “a way to engage in a kind of internal discourse, or sub-linguistic mumbling.” Her process-based work, suffused with humor and conceptual exploration, employs vibrant color and intense layering and drawing, and seeks intensity rather than beauty. ( Artnet, Amy Sillman,) […]
PAINTING WITHOUT PAINT EXERCISE 1.3. Exploring unconventional painting materials Video to be watched about Rashid Johnson and his choice of materials to paint with. I was at first interested in his use of floor material and taking it to the wall – using a burning tool he created marks and gestures onto the surface. The […]