My final tutor feedback for this course and again one that is positive and offers constructive comments on ways to improve my working practices and tips on articles to read and artists to explore. I have made comment on some of the points below.
It’s such a shame we are in these unique and unprecedented times as I would really like to have seen the quality of ink on paper and the scale of the work. It reminds me of how you often look at an artwork in a book or online, but when you get to see it in the ‘flesh’ the experience changes and looks very different from a flat digital image.
Yes I agree, I have come to realise, now missing them, how much exhibitions and viewing in the flesh are an important part of my studies. I can view works in different lights, from different angles and sight lines and explore colour and texture, something that doesn’t come across on digital or even printed (as in books, magazines) images.
I have made comment on my research page about a small exhibition I visited just after lockdown restrictions were lifted. Looking back at these comments, I feel that I should maybe reign my words in a bit, but then again, it conveys the moment that a caged tiger finally gets its freedom to explore!
Helen Billinghurst is an academic who’s work begins with the act of walking
http://helenbillinghurst.blogspot.comthe shapes of old
https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/13656
Some interesting ideas, I like the way she has unpicked cardboard packaging and found objects to use as her working surface and the way concertina paper is used to record a pathway with the textures and interpretations that she has discovered along the journey. As my eyes follows the red line across the folds I get the feeling of walking uphill and down and the energy that this motion exudes. (Thesis download for a rainy day read. Thank you for the pointer.)
You have explored tree ring shapes and produced a large quantity of work exploring circular shapes. Print 1 demonstrates good technical skills in handling multi layered printmaking. I really enjoyed print 3 and 4. These prints have become more sophisticated and paired down, they have expanded from the obvious interpretation of the subject matter into a more enigmatic and evocative interpretation. The choice of colours works well with this series.
Thank you, now I have a chance to look back over all my work these are 3 of my favourite prints and I am beginning to see where maybe my future practice lies.
Personal Project -You have titled this series as Cells. I was beginning to think you were moving away from your work around the natural into the man made.
I was too! but realised and managed to stop myself and refocus on my original direction. It was nice to explore something different though and helped open up ideas in my mind in regard to circles and line. Some breathing space.
You could photograph your own drawings, print them off and work on top, cut them up and simply explore a range of compositional ideas. This could push the boundaries of your work further.
I have tried this approach on a couple of occasions during this course and I did do some examples for this module which were included in my sketchbook. But can see its merits in assisting with further studies and experimentation in composition of abstraction.
Interestingly I attended an OCA workshop – Intuitive Collage with Jayne Taylor, which gave a different approach to building and working with Photocollage. No thinking, just quick cutting and pasting. In the later reflective discussion it was interesting to see that most of us had a thought process as to why we had chosen to build in the way that we had. I have included some written notes und my Research page.
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