According to Wikipedia, Ekphrasis is the written description of a work of art produced as a rhetorical exercise, while the Poetry Foundation describes it as, ‘a vivid description of a scene or, more commonly, a work of art. Through the … Continue reading Response to the poem Single Shot by Tom Sheehan
Assessment runs in cycles and this is the Summer 2021 cohort. The bulk of the work shown is from first year (Level 1/HE4) students and gives an idea of the quality of work at even this stage. Add to this that everyone is working alone without a physical cohort, and often few facilities. Small spaces in a box room, the gap under the stairs, and in one case I know of, the back of a café, packing everything up each night to take home and bring back the next day. Most work around jobs, families, cats, and many other entities … Continue reading Summer Assessment – student work from Painting and Drawing
I’ve been doing some unwrapping today and i absolutely can’t wait to get these on a wall! With many, many thanks to Frames at the Golding Barn industrial estate, these are ready to meet their public. This piece, impossible to … Continue reading Steyning Arts Trail – what’s coming to Sakala
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
I can’t say this has been easy, but I can say that necessity is very much the mother of invention and with excellent tutor support, I’ve managed to invent myself to an unexpectedly satisfactory conclusion! I think I’ve said this … Continue reading UPM & Level 1 all done and dusted
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?
That task here was to use the cut/mix/randomly use method that appears to have originated with Dadaist poetry but was certainly used by David Bowie in his leaner years. I gave it a go, cutting up small sections of a … Continue reading Part 5, working with words
This is from The Conversation 19/07/2021, republished with permission, and it’s here to come back to each time I need to get my head around the NFT (non-fungible token) business. Artists have to eat. They have to pay bills. Giving work away for ‘exposure’ as so many of us have done or are doing is a devaluing of the creative product and makes it harder for those whose livelihood depends on sales. At some level though, this seems to breach a barrier of seemliness. Patronage smacks of obedience; conformity to the wishes of a paying patron; being kept as a … Continue reading That Art/Money/Patronage thing
A small piece arising from an exercise in the Studio Practice module of my OCA painting degree. This is gold and silver acrylic on black cartridge primed with gloss varnish. The thin dark marks are scratched texture made with a … Continue reading Haiku to Klimt
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