My walking is about the exploration of place. Walking is an active process that can become a mind walk - I started considering landscape as that which can be created in the mind. The act of walking has to lead to repeated work in the studio - it started with...
Work to be discussed and researched as preparation for the workshop was ''while the dew is still on the roses, Ebony G Patterson. We were encouraged to look at the Perez Art Museum, in Miami (PAMM) Ebony G. Patterson show (installation view) Courtesy of World Red Eye Background on the...
Diversity, Listening and Understanding session on Friday 19 February 2021 I had some issues to log onto the symposium and eventually listened to 3 artists talking about Human and More-than-human Relationships Francesca Curtis - Cetaceans on Camera: Towards Ecological Speculation in Ant Farm’s Dolphin EmbassyLydia Halcrow - Tread Lightly on...
an OCA workshop with artist Martyn Hill (2h) on 17 February 2021 The following is an insert of what to expect for this workshop - I appreciated the information. Fine Art is launching the first, of a new series of Group Workshops-Wednesday 17th Feb., 2021, 18.00 - 20.00 GMT, UK...
11 JANUARY 2020 image taken from a book, William Kentridge; Drawing frothe film Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris, 1989 A local newspaper in South Africa wrote the following of above work in 1990: The artist stands outside society and scrutinises the historical and bourgeois norms, taboos and ideas of...
These works are done on a daily basis - I do not expect any outcomes other than a continued process of drawing after a walk. I do not judge the works, but can see that it will influence further works. I am focussed on my actions and not necessarily what...
16 November 2020 By now I started to read of the books my tutor recommended. I stood still at the paragraph where (p11) Monet's waterlilies in the Orangerie is discussed. On page 10 with a conclusive remark that "extreme forms of realism in narrative began to set streams of consciousness...
From the study material: You will be introduced to a variety of short texts, some that you will be guided through in depth, others that will be offered more like a taster for ideas that whet your appetite. It is possible that an essay from a particular author or anthology...