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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]