I spent some time on descriptive reflection (in my critical journal) after the visits so this represents my more analytical consideration of what I gained from the visits. It was an extraordinarily rich day and I suspect this is probably part one, as I let some of the influences filter through my thought processes. At… Read More →
Author: Dawn
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Open-Cut: research and practice unit induction project
This induction project sets out with a common brief of four weeks to open up new directives from the work. It asks you to excavate the surrounding territory of your art practice, dig up ideas to find what lies close to the surface of the work. Allow unfamiliar veins of thought, materials, research and process… Read More →
The art of critique
Over the years I have read a variety of guides on how to ‘read’ and write about art, some more useful than others. In a few cases they seem to get overly complex and it is not long before the delights of semiotics rear their head. I think this has meant that I have never… Read More →
Misbehaving Bodies: Jo Spence and Oreet Ashery. Wellcome Collection
“While working in different eras and media, Spence and Ashery challenge the medical gaze and look beyond a diagnosis to form a more complex portrait of their subjects. They foreground collaborative ways of working to create a safe space where vulnerability is made visible.” (Exhibition catalogue) As I walked through the main doors I was… Read More →
Generations & Nations
Manoeuvring the work of eighteen people into a relatively confined space whilst endeavouring to respect an unfortunate fellow student on another course who happens to have her studio on the end of the run looked at one point like it might prove impossible! It felt like quite an achievement after an hour or so to see… Read More →
Beverly Ayling-Smith
It felt like serendipity to come across Beverly Ayling Smith’s work at UCA Farnham when I went for my MFA interview. I was surprised I hadn’t come across her before given the subject matter of my project work to date. While her focus is more on mourning and grief it is inspiring to see how… Read More →
Re-locating the family album
The family album is dead, long live the family album! I was excited, and a little daunted, to have had my abstract on family album practices accepted by the Ethnography Symposium 2019. It is a conference I have attended before but mainly in relation to my professional consultancy work. It is a delightfully mixed disciplinary… Read More →
52-week collage workshop (August 2018 – August 2019)
Hard to believe that I am now at the end of 52 weeks of collaging – producing at least one collage a week. Led by Randel Plowman, the workshop has consisted of a prompt a week covering different aspects of collage from figure/ground to colour theory, and surrealism to socio/political commentary. It has encouraged me… Read More →
52-week collage workshop: Citrasolv collage
The prompt for this week’s activity was to use Citrasolv, ideally with a National Geographic to make ‘papers’ for collaging. We were asked to create at least three collages. I had tried to do some photo-transfers before using Citrasolv with little success so wasn’t too sure what was going to happen. I was also… Read More →
Lee Krasner – Barbican Gallery
This is a show of epic proportions, and rightly so. Lee’s character as a woman and an artist comes across powerfully in the works, the interpretative materials and the compilation video on show on the ground floor. I am immediately drawn into her work, her story and the sheer impact of the canvases. Dynamic, energised,… Read More →