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Selected links. 5 things that are true explores narrative using text from a flash fiction piece. liminality, unknowing – explores liminals and use of text in painting by incorporating, with permission, parts of a poem by Amanda Huggins. The painting … Continue reading Assessment content – essay and reflective account
In the language of science, this is a ‘proof of concept’ trial whereby I’m testing the viability of linking graffiti in the underpass of the local bypass to paintings with their own embedded video activate via the Artivive app. My … Continue reading Exhibition in the wild – Artivive in an underpass
This comprises a draft of the 1000 word essay and a video presentation of practice. I used both of these for my progression meeting which was successful. The essay reflects the focus I have developed, with support from tutors, on … Continue reading Assignment 5
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
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’
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?
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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