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 →
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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 →
Exploring death and the digital afterlife
We cannot not leave traces (Merzeau, 2009) Having initially explored decollage and digital decollage I felt I had not quite got to where I wanted. I liked the final images but the digital versions in particular, had become too stylized and lost some of their depth and ‘edge’. In parallel I had been working on… Read More →
Collaborating: thank you Catherine Banks
It struck me that in my digital afterlife I will not be the one manipulating or appropriating my images. In order to experience what this might mean I asked Catherine, a fellow OCA student and my co-curator on the ‘Time’ exhibition, if she might consider responding to my work. I asked her to work with… Read More →
Open Art Collective: Time
It seems fitting that an exhibition on the theme of time is also bounded by the concept. The walls are empty and white again, the next exhibitors are unwrapping their precious cargo and our collective works are consigned to the parameters. My pieces were very much about this flow of time and the nature of… Read More →