This is a double header as I submitted assignments 3 and 4 at the same time, it being hard to distinguish them in practical terms. As a result, the formative feedback spanned both but had to be written for the … Continue reading Tutorial follow up, June 2022
In writing the essay for this module, I realised there’s another rift to address – the one concerning the perceived value of traditional art found in galleries which is almost always physical and contained within a frame, compared with the burgeoning digital field. My work is explicitly hybrid but, after a discussion with my peer group in a recent crit meeting, it became clear that, while the physical work is designed to stand on its own feet, the film version is the final product. So what, here, is the art? Is it the physical painting upon which everything else is … Continue reading Rift #5 – Red Wall
These are the videos we have displayed on the side of your building during the Steyning Arts trail this summer. I hope you had time to take a look while they were there via the Artivive app. Thank you, Khushbu! Continue reading Khushbu
First appearance of augmented reality at Steyning Arts trail? Probably! Continue reading Physical and digital art – a trail and the side of a house
You could probably describe Steyning in west Sussex as a relatively affluent middle class market town. It has a history as a port in the 8th/11th century until the mouth of the Adur at Shoreham silted up and left it … Continue reading Physical and digital art – a trail and the side of a house
This is the title of a forthcoming collection of poetry by Amanda Huggins, one of whose included poems forms the textual background of a painting made for Personal Practice. She loved the painting and asked if she could use it … Continue reading ‘Talk to me about when we were perfect’
Steyning Arts art trail starts to today and the Sensational Six are at The Hub in Upper Beeding. We’ll be open for business at 11 this morning, through to 5pm. Abstracts, people, animals, patterns, glassware, wallpaper, prints, textiles, an actual … Continue reading Morning, Trailers!
Flirting with a painting-by-numbers set and ending up with a subversion in soft pastels of Van Gough’s Starry Night opened one of those mental doors that might have stayed close without considering how Van Gogh’s panoply of disorders could have … Continue reading Rift #4 – being and not being ‘normal’
The word is a bit of an annoyance because if we’re being picky, it should be ‘inspi’, but as shorthand for that body of images and words, experiences, and miasmic mashups of a lived life, it will do nicely. I’ve … Continue reading ‘Inspo’, where does it come from?
I am exhibiting with some very experienced artists who know their way round a publicity campaign and I’m playing catch-up here with a use of PowerPoint I never could have imagined a few years ago! These are just some of the paintings I’ll be taking and because almost all of them have embedded AR (augmented reality) videos, you might want to get hold of the Artivive app for the full singing, dancing experience. You’ll be able to activate the video once you get your painting home too. Using Artivive: the AR works by recognising a photograph of the painting and … Continue reading Steyning Arts art trail – not long to go!
Strayfish Arts 