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 […]
This work was made with mycelium and my tutor, M Whiting referred me to look at her work. Looking at the work I like the idea of working within a context of practice-based research and that this is part of a series of works which links to my ideas of having different projects running whilst […]
“The Arc de Triomphe is taken away from our gaze and at the same time overexposed to our gaze. This subtraction and this overexposure lie at the core of the work. Thank you, Christo, for offering us the gift of looking in another way, in a new way, at masterpieces built by other artists.” […]
I looked at an article written by Graeme Sullivan, Research Acts in Art Practice (2006) What intrigued me is that he refers to a question arts-based researchers have: Can artistic forms be used as the basis for educational inquiry.? and What kind of research acts are characteristic of, and familiar to, art inquiry and art […]
A fellow student introduced me a the work of this artist, who works mainly with natural materials. She shared a work called: Samenbeutel, 2009. Translated it means a bundle and here it acts as a seed bag, or container for the seed. The material used is a hairnet which holds airborne thistle seeds. This idea […]