You can make a book well, cheaply, or quickly, but you can never do all three. Tom Mrazuauskas/Brave Books I had heard great things about Lewis’ workshops and while I had no particular outcome in mind my ever present interest in artists books and the summer break made this a great time to give one… Read More →
Author: Dawn
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Generating still life
Still life has long been my ‘go to’ genre. The symbolism of still life sits well with my explorations of impermanence and mortality. I am interested in our relationships to objects and the interplay between material and digital. I also feel a debt of gratitude to all those women who were pioneers in the field… Read More →
Into the generated woods
I am fascinated by the way the GANs have responded to my training set of woods and trees. It is extraordinary how some seem so close and others are more abstract, a collection of disparate shapes and colours. When I discussed the resulting video with someone the other week, she described it as dreamlike, on… Read More →
Inspiration in a period of uncertainty: Shanghai & Berlin
In the old normal, as part of our course, we would be going on regular field trips. These visits are an important part of the process because they provide inspiration, ideas and give a sense of the wider context of curation, sector debates and so on. For obvious reasons we haven’t been able to do… Read More →
‘Field Work’ expanded
In March we were set a project prompt that encouraged us to interact with a public site in nature as far as was safe to do at the time given the lockdown restrictions. Select a public site in nature you can record using photography, print, drawing, film or create site-specific works by walking, using found… Read More →
Thinking through painting: Reflexivity and agency beyond the canvas
Although this is a diminutive volume it is densely packed. While I have been thinking a lot about post-digital art lately, I haven’t looked very much at painting. This new-found interest has in part been inspired by my turn to painting during lock down and the sometimes physical need to apply paint to paper as… Read More →
Digital Remains: PechaKucha
The above presentation shows the evolution of my work in relation to the notion of digital afterlife. It shows my influences, and hopefully illustrates my developing practice. Please note there are some moderately flashing images at the end. This was the third time I had presented my PechaKucha (a presentation format using 20 slides shown… Read More →
Digital Remains: Broken packets
Yesterday’s play with colours has resulted in more experimentation today. It’s still work in progress but it’s interesting to explore the different possibilities and see which ones resonate for me. I had kept the backgrounds white because much of our data transfer is about light but as ever, I am drawn to the dark and… Read More →
Digital Remains: moving into stage 2
Hard to believe we are now a third of the way through the course, and it’s been three months since I was last in the college studios. In the initial phase of lockdown, I felt like I had lots of energy and was painting daily. Then we went into assessment hand in and the focus… Read More →
Disruption
Take an existing piece of work and disrupt it in some way Take a found image or object and disrupt that Bring the two together to create a new piece We had certain parameters in creating our newest prompted piece, most of which focused on moving away from our current area of practice. As much… Read More →