PROJECT 1a : Art as Life and The Everyday Considering the every day in my work My studio days are driven mainly by the projects I am working on for Research and Advanced practice. I try to work with daily drawings regularly, keep them in sketchbooks and share them on social media. I recently read […]
A work in progress Creative Accounting: not knowing in talking and making pdf article Listening to video below in addition to the reading NOTES Work left in the studio (past work) – used as a prompt later to explore. Get re-made/recycled as a new work. Unfocused desired, moments of boredom. Studio as a launchpad into […]
Monday 11 September 2023 My tutor set out generous time for the discussion, which mainly revolved around my making to reflect on this process regarding how the body of work will be seen as an outcome. The work that stood out is the nest I held up against the sun – time and other things […]
This photographer shares images of mostly seeds and plants and I was captured by a note on an image when she writes about this work as a project that took 5 years: “Can plants think? Eat, make war, or die? And, if so, what do they feel when they prepare for death? The project Flora Supersum […]
Ellen McMahon uses a range of media (artist books, writing, painting, drawing, photography, design and video) to investigate the relationship between visual art, daily life, and how we frame and study social and environmental problems. I have discovered this artist’s work as she created an educational approach in art to contribute to environmental awareness. I […]
During formal feedback, I valued that my tutor reminded me of Learning Outcomes regarding aims and outcomes. I want to consider Spring 2024 as an assessment event for my work on Fine Art 3 Advanced Practice and Research. Learning outcomes for Advanced Practice Three assessment criteria are shown in the ASSESSMENT GRID, which I will […]
What is UBUNTU: It is considered a cornerstone of all African values and a significant concept in African humanism. It entails communal personhood as well as collective morality. My understanding is that in its essence, Ubuntu emphasises the interconnectedness and interdependence of all people. It is about compassion, kindness, community collaboration, cooperation, support and respect). […]
I need to consider my body of work, which I am doing in Fine Art 3: Advanced Practice, and reflect on it for the contextual study. Then, I can test whether it integrates elements from my Research course. Research Question: Consider how theories around interconnectedness can open new ideas for making in a contemporary art […]
AGENCY = According to Karen Barad “agency is not held, it is not a property of persons or things; rather, agency is an enactment, a matter of possibilities for reconfiguring entanglements. So agency is not about choice in any liberal humanist sense; rather, it is about the possibilities and accountability entailed in reconfiguring material-discursive apparatuses […]
I am busy with my draft and will also use the blog to reflect on my progress in order to refine the research question (s) and developing longer pieces of text that articulate and support my position – the idea to get to a critical investigation. I am building up my bibliography and keeping in […]