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The first task was to revise my artist’s statement; a little less generic, a little more about what I actually do. I’m beginning to realise that generalism is something I’ve honed professionally over the years because it suited the context. … Continue reading Post tutorial thoughts and revisions
All these private posts. Deeply secret? Rude naughtiness? Bit of a hustle on the side? No. Well not exactly. These are all destined to accompany various publications. One is for a book cover, the others will sit with specific poems … Continue reading Part 5 assignment: painting in response to literature, and sometimes you just have to wait.
I was delighted to see some down-to-earth advice about this from Artquest, and some wonderful examples from The Art League: Good statements: keep it short grab the reader’s interest with the first sentence introduce the author’s personality and enthusiasm give a hint about the why of the artwork use the first person (I, me, mine — this is not a strict rule, but it does seem to help the author write a more straightforward, readable statement) What they don’t do: summarize the resume found elsewhere on the website give a physical description of artwork photographed elsewhere on the website sound generic use “art speak” Artquest, … Continue reading Artist statement – (part 5, project 4, ex 4)
Drawing Skills 1: 56% Practice of Painting: 61% Understanding Painting Media: 67% On the face of it, this shows linear improvement in that the overall marks are going up. But looking at the detail, all of this improvement comes from … Continue reading Reviewing Level 1 (HE4) feedback
In my essay for this module, I wrote about finding a route to representing ways in which we could transition, as artists, away from apocalyptic representations of the Anthropocene to a more positive view of human-scale changes we can make … Continue reading Positive anthroposcenery #1
Documenting the Anthropocene: after the celebratory and the horrific, can we begin to posit the emergence of positive anthroposcenery? Abstract Anthropocene: the era of humans. Anthroposcenic: landscapes ‘deemed to mark an Anthropocene epoch’ (Matliss, 2018). In this essay I will … Continue reading Critical review – Documenting the Anthropocene: after the celebratory and the horrific, can we begin to posit the emergence of positive anthroposcenery?
We’re asked here to think about materiality, a word I’ve only recently come to terms with, and to consider Lange-Berndt’s question about what it means to give agency to material, to follow it and act with it [see reference below]. My initial response is to reject the idea that I give agency to my materials. I choose them after all so I make the first choice as to which class of medium is going to go on stage, as it were. But that isn’t the whole story because I have discovered that, exactly as with writing, while I may have … Continue reading Part 3, project 3 – contextual focus, relationship with materiality
“We are the people we’ve been waiting for” My preferred news radio programme is BBC 5Live. Never pompous, good incisive journalism, and plenty of humour. There’s also a lot of sport which I tolerate to the extent that I often know who manages what team because it seeps in when I’m not looking, and right now it’s in a full-on excitement lather about the 2020 (yes, it is) UEFA Euros. This is such a massive footie fest that it has its own song but I’d heard it before I knew that, and it was that line, “We are the people … Continue reading Parallel project #5
Research point 2: Boo Ritson, Rachel Russell. Boo Ritson: my first feeling about these images (and what are they? sculptures, paintings, paintings of sculptures?) is a slight revulsion. They look dead but they also look strange and it occurs to me that they fall into that uncanny valley whereby something purportedly a human proxy, is too real to be a proxy but just misses being real. The idea that Ritson uses the sitter – body, hair, clothing – in her work gives me the creeps. Boo Ritson | Artnet Rachel Russell: is this her in the – what is it, … Continue reading Part 3, project 2, becoming an image
Yinka Shonibare | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts This man makes products of his work and his work is in the Bisa Butler mould of total colour and like her he addresses colonialism, race, class, and identity. Fab. Another … Continue reading Part 3, project 1, working with clothing
Strayfish Arts 