I’m so pleased to be exhibiting at Sakala in Steyning High street. I knew this shop when it was barely more than a cupboard in Cobblestones and when my sister saw a photo of it, she wanted to move in. … Continue reading Strayfish Arts at Sakala!
This project is still bubbling under but I’ve strong feeling now that it will be built from everything that has gone before and incorporate ways of working that have come from using materials such as mirror film and the selective … Continue reading Parallel Project – anthroposcenery #1
Way back, we had a maths teacher who is said to have advised students, ‘If you can’t answer the question, draw an elephant’. This is the obverse; a series of art questions I find I can’t answer because of their … Continue reading Assignment 4
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
Angela de la Cruz – is there anyone who isn’t a Goldsmiths graduate? With a background in philosophy, de la Cruz got her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in 1994, then an MA in sculpture and critical theory from the Slade. In this exhibition she ‘mangle[s] the stretcher’, to ‘unleash [the work] into three-dimensional space’. I wish I could find this kind of work interesting but unless I know what it’s trying to say, it just passes me by. Novel idea but if it isn’t speaking to someone who would like to hear from it, how can it be … Continue reading Part 4, research point 1
I have fused the first two projects in this serendipitous piece which uses clothing material (nylon, possibly), paint peeled off a well-used palette, and strips taken from the OHP film I use to keep paint fluid while I need it. … Continue reading Part 4
My contemporaneous account of the making process is here. In the course of completing this series, I have collected ideas and links to previous work related to the newcomer artistic enterprise of anthroposcenic landscapes. This is beginning to settle into … Continue reading Assignment 3 – four paintings
Anthropocene, or ‘the age of humans’; Anthroposcenic*, human intrusions into the natural world. There is hardly anywhere we are not. Hardly a place where we haven’t left our mark. Nowhere we haven’t influenced. Often for good but almost always in … Continue reading Assignment 3 – Anthroposcenic
As university blogs (learning logs) are transitory creatures, this will be the permanent home of links to research papers originating in psychology and having relevance to art. This is about pseudo-hallucinations (vivid mental imagery) and Ganzflicker. Pseudo-hallucinations: why some people see more vivid mental images than others – test yourself here (theconversation.com) Cognitive flexibility, IQ, and creativity. IQ tests can’t measure it, but ‘cognitive flexibility’ is key to learning and creativity (theconversation.com) How context (a museum) affects your appreciation of art. BPS Research Digest Feb 2015. Why colour shifted abstracts are less attractive than the original (they used a Delaunay … Continue reading Psychology and/of art
In the course of thinking about the narrative project and coming up with very little, I began (16th June), putting some mirror foil to the test to see how it performs with veiling (a white watercolour wash) which we discussed … Continue reading Part 3, project 3, constructing narratives, and project 4, reflective surfaces
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