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The results are in and, although I’m well underway with the first level 3 module, it’s a relief to have this officially landed at 75%. Again, thanks are due to my tutor for excellent support – always delivered with humour … Continue reading Last post for this module and also Level 5
This is also, at some level, Assignment 6. Blue Passports. The ideological rift driven by the Brexit debate and referendum which is still underpinning our politics today. Link to the development of this piece. no/rmal. Commentary on the way people with cognitive and mental impairments were institutionalised in the past, selectively seen by members of the public on fundraising open days leading to split perceptions of worth. Link to the development of this piece. The style of the title illustrates the split with the use of a forward slash cutting the word in two and not prioritising one half over … Continue reading Submission pieces
13th June 2022. Every year in this semi rural place, there are farms inviting people to bring their children to see lambs and lambing. ‘Baby lambs’ in the fields is an almost universal springtime aaaaw moment. How many ask the … Continue reading Final rift – that between idealism and reality in farming
This is the other page in the course notes that had gone missing unnoticed but that I think I probably addressed from experience elsewhere. In my video, I have very definitely worked to my strengths, using VR technology to show my AR work and a fantasy avatar to tour with it. I have learned a huge amount about video making in this process so that, while still rooted in physical painting, I feel better equipped to begin innovating beyond the techniques I have used so far. I think this approach also reflects sensitivity to the project (Ex 4) in that … Continue reading Exploring Media, exercises 3-8 (?pertaining to assignment 6)
This is designed to underpin assignment 5 although, due to a mis-alignment of my printed copy of the course materials, I had already completed the video element. Fortunately, I had also viewed the recommended videos and formed an impression based on these and other interviews with artists, writers, scientists, and in documentaries. These seem to break down categorically by inclusion/non inclusion of the interviewer; sedentary/mobile interviewee; front/partial profile aspect; and lighting. Interviewees in a recent documentary about the Grenfell Tower fire sat alone or as couples, directly facing the camera with occasional profile shots, and a completely dark background. The … Continue reading Research task: artists speaking about their practice
The brief is to make a presentation which might be a video (max 3 mins), a PowerPoint (max 14 slides), Prezi, Padlet, or a PDF (max 10 pages); and the advice is to use key points to carry it, show don’t tell, and to consider the audience. Working with your strengths is also advised. Taking the last, first; video was inevitable. It also reflects most keenly the work I’ve been doing and very definitely lends itself to showing rather than telling. I took the key themes from the course notes in Exercise 6 and answered the questions using a Word … Continue reading Assignment 5 – video element
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
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?
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