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 […]
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 […]