Just needed to make a quick note about what I’ve learned and gathered from the experience of curating and exhibiting my work at Kanteena on the 28th February 2020. One of the main things I noticed was the impact of exhibiting my drawings on a surface that wasn’t just a white wall. The transparent fence […]
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“His paintings appear abstract but they are based on drawings of erotic and violent scenes. In the two side panels of this triptych the imagery has a mechanistic, science fiction quality. But in the centre the forms are organic, suggesting references to sexual parts. Matta was concerned with capturing the inner world of the mind. […]
Searching through the shelves of the university library art books I once stumbled upon a section on Henry Moore; it appeared that some of them seemed to cover the topic of memory that was associated with his sculptures, and what I did not know at the time, his drawings. After an open office hour coversation […]
Big thanks to Núria for taking these notes down in the group crit! PRESENTATION: – focus on memory but this time more personal – identity built into a collective well of memory, knowledge that is being passed on – collective memory from Diaspora context, growing an identity away from the context – female focus.. portraiture […]
Conversation with Hira (a Royal Drawing School alumini): very static terrifying because my block really comes though in the carefulness and preciousness of my process need to loosen up set myself a time of 1 or 3 hours and try to produce as many drawings in that time as possible – don’t think about […]
As recommended by Chris Cook I decided to look into Susan Derges’ work for more inspiration with regards to my work. The similarity he found between mine and her works was the cyanotype technique as well as the need for fluidity in our works; he mentioned that she created these cyanotypes which she made in […]
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BARBARA HEPWORTH
“I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.” I remember first encountering Hepworth’s work on an Instagram post (quoted above) made by the National Portrait Gallery to commemorate her birthday. Then it followed by a post by Tate: “All my early memories are forms and shapes and textures. Moving […]
I decided to start off this term with trying to understand composition and balance a bit more before moving onto drawing freehand; these experiments can then serve as a reference point if I get stuck. In addition these have also helped me further my understanding of the visual aesthetic I started to develop last term. […]
Dustin Edward Arnold: Reasons for choosing: Movement – organic, traces behind, body, human existance, overlapping Monochromatic Generalised forms – along with the movement create an essence of the person, conveying their energy and living Palpability and ephemereal at once Ullstein Bild and Isaiah West Taber – Images of Loie Fuller: Reasons for choosing: High contrast […]
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Reflection on Term i Feedback
I wanted to go over the feedback I received from last term’s work, in more detail, to understand how to move forward within my studio practice. But before I go into that I wanted to briefly summarise and comment on last term’s practice from my own perspective; this will also help me establish better and […]
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