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 […]
Considering a suggested structure for writing a 5000-word contextual study IDEAS for the Structure to consider and discuss with tutor. The idea below is very wide and could be more condensed. I am not sure about use of chapters, is it important, I would prefer headings in bold. I suggest words per section and would […]
Exercise 2.1: Questioning voices by investigating the various research materials I have identified to deepen and broaden my thinking about theoretical ideas as this material will form the basis of my proposal for my CR writing. KEY ARGUMENTS Connectedness and Ubuntu Here I will share text to introduce the meaning and arguments. Ubuntu is derived […]
I recorded today’s session with my tutor and would like to share our discussion points and actions. I firstly want to inform my tutor that I added some reflective learning into two of my blogs, namely Assignment Two, where I looked at research methods and Part 6, The Draft Research Question. (I made the added […]
INTRODUCTION This post will be a time-based blog in the form of writing/documenting and responding to conversations and discussing ideas about vessels and making between Annette Holtkamp (OCA textiles student and part of a crit group) and me. I share this work with the assessors as it shows peer interaction, discussions around work, and the […]
Summary of my research, including details of research material My research to accompany my work and making focuses on how I interact with my non-human materials, primarily fungi and feathers. These objects are seen as part of nature and the non-living world, from which humans have been distanced. I am attempting to form a collaborative […]