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 […]
REFLECTIVE EXERCISE EXERCISE 1.2. Relationships with materiality In the study guide: Consider the following quote of Lange-Berndt (2015:13) in relation to your own practice: “What does it mean to give agency to the material, to follow the material and to act with the material?” CONTEXTUAL FOCUS When Lange-Berndt (2015:14) writes that to ‘follow material means […]
PAINT AS MATERIAL The study material share an image of a painting by Frank Auerbach, E.O.W. Sleeping, 1966 which seems to be escaping its support and ask the learner to imagine if he had abandoned the canvas or board altogether. It is clear that Auerbach had a very distinctive manner of painting almost as if […]
Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills: I have explored a wide range of materials and investigations. I was not very successful with video work, but will still pursue some ideas to develop my own work. Working with 3-d objects has been exciting and opened up ideas about materiality to explore more. I can develop my […]