Reflections on a personal project exploring the nature of art in the age of digital reproduction.
Tag: Experimentation
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 →
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 →
Invocation project show: Rothko, the machine and me
Having once seemed an age away, my next creative practice project was suddenly upon me, I have been focusing much of my energy on the forthcoming MFA interim show in the James Hockey Gallery so adding in this project felt like quite a stretch. Discussion with my co-exhibitor, Tianxing surfaced a number of possible titles.… Read More →
Thank you 2019
Through my previous studies with the Open College for the Arts (OCA) I’m used to doing an annual review that includes drawing together twelve images from across the year. As we move into a new decade it seemed a particularly pertinent point to reflect on 2019 and think about where I might be headed in… Read More →
Missing Link Development
Being the last in our MFA group to do this term’s small group show feels to have been both a blessing and a curse. It meant the luxury of more time to develop the work, equally there is a weight of responsibility to build on the efforts of my fellow artists over the last few… Read More →
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 →