Exercise 7: Cultural Ecology REFLECTIVE NOTES I prefer to consider how my peer support networks, artist engagement with the community, and opportunities in my own town/village could be useful. Harker writes “In its dictionary definition, ‘ecology’ refers to a branch of biology that deals with ‘the relations of organisms to one another and to their […]
SELF-MANAGED ART PRACTICE Exercise 6: Part One follow-up 1 week – 4 week Dedicate time to making and developing further from your Part One practice work. How can you extend and develop this? What strategies are working / not working so well? What do you need to keep making? Make notes and a simple proposal […]
Online research AVA—The Association for Visual Arts is a non-profit, membership-based arts organisation that aims to advance and promote South African contemporary art and artists. Their office is in Cape Town, my nearest city. I registered as a member while doing this research. Bell’s Vireo,” by Rosamond Purcell. The bird has woven bits of newspaper […]
Building resilience It is important to look back at Part One and use the learning as a platform to continue. Exercise 1: Time for making (tasks/activities which are part of my practice and support my continuing development of knowledge, understanding and skills to sustain my practice-research) I have a few projects running simultaneously. Some involve […]
I want to capture the dancers’ movements as imprints on a prepared surface. It is about embracing the unpredictability and spontaneity which will happen, allowing the dancers’ movements to guide the creation of a unique and expressive work, made on the floor as the surface. This surface is where the dancers move, becomes the canvas. […]
SELECTION OF WORK I want to consider the works below – they are all about nesting/nests and making 3D work for outside installation and drawing explorations of their form. I see the connection with nature as the nest of the sociable weaver and the connection to the wire work of artist Claire Falkenstein. Links to […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
These notes were important when I looked at Project 1 in terms of developing an argument or position. I read a pdf by Tim Ingold, Lines, a brief history (2007). In Chapter Two, I found a drawing by his father, C.T. Ingold, which shows Fungal mycelium. Ingold reminds us that much of the lines of […]