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 […]
Exercise 1.5 Painting in the round The method for the exercise is to dispense with the canvas and allow the object that I am interested in to become the ‘canvas’ I work on. To prepare for the work I have to make at least 3 large objects. The exercise suggests that before I begin to […]
CONTEMPORARY APPROACHES TO STILL LIFE: OBJECT TABLE DEVELOPMENT The following was taken from the study material: In Part Two you will explore intersections between painting and sculpture. Through practical, written and reflective exercises you will consider: The shift from depiction of pictorial space to the experience and articulation of physical space. The agency of the […]
Exercise 1.4 Collect, combine, construct I am immediately drawn to the construct of Monogram, 1955-59, the scale, the different parts of this painting with objects, and the time frame in which it developed as a work. I question why he settled on putting the work horizontally on the floor, apparantly in the second stage of […]
Exercise 1.3. Studio Reflections For this exercise, I need to consider my relationship to my work or studio space. Question: In your learning log/blog reflect upon your own approach to, and feelings about: action/inaction/, focus/distraction, knowing, being productive/unproductive, in the studio. What is your relationship to your workspace? What does your workspace provide you with? […]
Exercise 1.2 On perspective Using gouache and/or household emulsion, paint flat colours onto pieces of paper mirroring the colours you see on the table. Paint a base paper the colour of the tabletop. Make a series of colour studies, with these papers, which explore shape and the spatial relationships that exist between the table and […]
“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably become it – that is your punishment, but if you never know, then you can be anything. There is a truth to that. We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer […]