Subversion – personal painting, #rift

08/05/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I’m quite fond of subverting what might be described as genre output by juxtaposing or underpinning a relatively traditional piece with something that jolts it a bit. So when I came across an ad for a painting-by-numbers Van Gogh, my mind had already raced to an idea involving tracing and cutting out the numbered areas then enlarging and exploding them over an A1 card. But reality had other ideas. The schematic is printed onto the canvas which, unlike the ones from my childhood, is real and not a piece of cardboard. But even if it had been a firm surface, … Continue reading Subversion – personal painting, #rift

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Incidental green screen experiments

01/05/202201/05/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

What had been so mysterious has become a thing of many possibilities – those adjacent ones I was talking about earlier whereby you need to be in the first room before the doors to other rooms become available. I suppose … Continue reading Incidental green screen experiments

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Personal Painting – Rift #3

30/04/202208/06/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

I was thinking this time of socio-political rifts and what more fundamental one could there be but the impact of Brexit on the union? Scotland, which has been pressing for independence for many years, is closer than ever to having … Continue reading Personal Painting – Rift #3

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Personal painting – recycling (Rift #2.2)

21/04/202227/04/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

After taking yesterday’s multi-layered piece almost to breaking point and assuming I’d finished, I couldn’t help but take another run at it today. This time I had green screen in mind from the start. First, I gave it a wash … Continue reading Personal painting – recycling (Rift #2.2)

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Personal painting – Rift #2

19/04/202227/04/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This is a little way off the ‘rift’ topic although it might be preparatory. I made a painting from one of my own photos of sheep sheltering from the sun in a thicket and deliberately included a strip of the … Continue reading Personal painting – Rift #2

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Addressing formative feedback

15/04/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

This session happened a little while ago and so I have had time to reduce detail to concept, although the detail I had requested – whether OCA used an absolute measure for essay word count or the more usual +/- 10% (it’s the latter) – was a welcome one that needed no reduction. Some points, the matter of ethics in research for instance, have become redundant for now as I have decided against running a survey at the forthcoming art trail. My sense is that the logistics of the setting may not be conducive. Another, relating to a discussion about … Continue reading Addressing formative feedback

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Essay component: preliminary plan

15/04/202215/04/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Key words: Rifts, meaning, physical, digital, and hybrids. These are the key words for the essay required for this module. Rifts because this is the area I’ve focused on for the painting practice component of this module; meaning because I’ve been banging on about making art meaningful to people who may never go to galleries, and physical/digital because art has always made use of whatever new technologies were available to it, from the camera obscura (see Hockney’s 2001 discussion) to Chevreul’s influence on colour theory. And this is before we get to performance art, filmic art, and transient art. There … Continue reading Essay component: preliminary plan

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Rift #1 – Personal Painting Project: Partition

14/04/202217/06/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

It’s taken a while but the first of three paintings is underway. Rifts can be of many types, some very personal, some geopolitical, some very much out of this world. This first is geopolitical and concerns the appalling way in … Continue reading Rift #1 – Personal Painting Project: Partition

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Final post for this module

12/04/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

The assessment results are out today and I’m astonished and delighted to find my work here somehow merited 75%. Many many thanks to my tutor who beamed endless encouragement and prompted thoughtfully throughout. As with all the previous modules, this blog will stay open until the final module of this level (2/HE5) is marked and hopefully passed, at which point I will merge it with Strayfish Arts along with the three Level 1/HE4 units. There will be no more posts here so if you’re following this blog, and I see people slowly arriving over the months, you might like to … Continue reading Final post for this module

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Fruit flies like a banana …

06/04/202207/04/2022 Suzanne Conboy-Hill

Two triumphs in one – my very first home-made greenscreen stop motion video featuring that banana, and an editing discovery that subverts YouTube’s recent no-choice Shorts conversion for videos that might a) be less than a minute long or b) portrait aspect ratio. These links don’t embed in WordPress or are recognised for the making of QR codes so, in case you’re reading this and it’s happening to you, the trick is to edit the link thus: Your YouTube generated link might look something like this: https://youtube.com/shorts/_thV9qFt_u0?feature=share [Note; this link is for illustration only, I removed the video it originally … Continue reading Fruit flies like a banana …

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closing the circle

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