Solo Studios co-collaboration with RASA Breathe, Breeze and Winged Things exhibition during August 2024 Discussions around the collaborative work with our Rasa NGO included having a separate piece for interaction where work will hang, and viewers will be invited to make flying objects to add to the work. After making two small prototypes to explore […]
ARTISTS STATEMENT (683 w) When I contemplate my work around nests, I reflect on the deep story behind their creation. The concept of care permeates my work, representing nurturing, protection, concern, and loss. Inspired by a video conversation between Joan Tronto and Todd May on the Philosophy of Care, I considered how, in making nests, […]
Review Your Research, Making, Curation Strategies, Documentation and Writing Notes to self from the study guide: Ask yourself which elements, formats, works, recordings, and documents are most appropriate for your ambitious plans, artistic intentions, content, and body of work. I am also asked to edit and select work for formative feedback to present to my tutor. Research French philosopher […]
Project 5: Writing and Text to Create Connections, Understanding and Promotion Consider the role of text or practice of writing in understanding or appreciation of my work by the audience. What role might text or the practice of writing bring to the reception, appreciation of, and understanding of your work by an audience? Considering a […]
Exploring Curation Strategies and Creating Content In a conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist, the co-director of the Serpentine Galleries in 2016, he shared a favourite definition of curating from the English writer J. G. Ballard. He said Ballard told him this in their last conversation, just a few months before he died: “A curator is […]
Anna Hepler (b 1969- ) Hepler was a professor of art at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, but she has lived and worked on an island off the coast of Maine for the last four years. The work below drew me to research this artist more. I hoped to understand why and how she explored with […]
Introductory thoughts During our tutorial session on Part Two of the work, my tutor suggested I delve into Foucault’s ideas on Space and Heterotopias. This was a transformative moment to understand how spaces function and how this will deepen the theoretical underpinnings of my practice and assist in creating a more impactful exhibition. Regarding curation […]
Main points to take from the general discussion.Research suggestion around contextualising my making with wire.My tutor’s suggestion to delve into Foucault’s ideas on Space and Heterotopias was a transformative moment. She will share a pdf with me. In the meantime, I read an eight-page pdf (Foucault and Space, (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320184686_Foucault_and_space/fulltext/59d384a90f7e9b4fd7ffb2c5/Foucault-and-space.pdf) and share the following notes as […]
Making, testing and prototyping Thinking about a body in a nest – layer the work with meaning. It also takes me to the work of Ana Mendieta, whom I studied earlier in the course. I consider her Silueta series, which she did from 1973 to 1980. She would lay somewhere in nature in this work, […]
The curators @ RASA are looking at hanging sculptures for Solo Studios based on the lessons from Prouvost’s installations. We will use interactive workshops for making. I would like to add soundscapes to my work during this exhibition. Prouvost works with installation, sculpture, painting, textiles, sound, and moving images. Our work is based on pictures […]