Experimental Working – shortlist

Below is a collated list of areas of the course and Parallel Project where I worked experimentally with either the materials or the genre. The experimental nature of the work is noted along with the reference to the Parallel Project, Assignment or Coursework along with a link to that post in the blog which opens...

6-PP-4 Summary and Conclusion of Parallel Project

This post contains two elements as noted below, click on either to go directly to that section of the post. 6-4   Summary of Parallel Project 6-5   Conclusion of Parallel Project  6-4   Summary of Parallel Project Summary of the various strands of investigation and exploration The main concept supporting this Parallel Project was the following statement:...

6-PP-2-5. Parallel Project – Strand #5 [Making Me]

6-PP-2-5, Strand #5 – Making Me Making a head of myself from plaster of Paris bandages and covering in acrylic paint skins. As a follow on from Strand #2 and the pair of feminine heads made in that part of the project I decided, supported by the tutorial feedback to make a more masculine version...

6-PP-3-2, Parallel Proj Research – Artists disabilities & Infirmities

6-PP-3-2         Research - Artists disabilities &Infirmities In this section I will take a brief look at some well-known /famous artists who were affected by disabilities and infirmities Despite their setback and difficulties in creating they were driven to strive onwards, providing if you are born to create, then nothing will impede that...

5-4-2, Exercise 4.1 – The Elevator Pitch

5-4-2     Exercise 4.1 – The Elevator Pitch Review your statement and edit it to a 30 second – 1 minute elevator pitch.  An elevator pitch is a statement that can be communicated in the time it takes for an elevator to travel from the bottom of a building to the top, usually between 30...

5-4-1, Exercise 4 – Writing an Artists Statement

5-4-1                  Exercise 4           Writing an Artists Statement Method Read the guidelines “How to write an artists’s statement”, Artquest , (2020).  Read the advice and guidance in the book How To Write About Contemporary Art by Gilda Williams - (Williams, 2014). Look at the work you have produced so far for the Parallel Project. Review your notes,...

6-PP-3-1, Parallel Proj Research – Willie Doherty

6-PP-3-1         Research works of Willie Doherty The tutor feedback on Part 3 suggested research into several artists including - Research works of Willie Doherty for my Parallel Project. Victoria Grace Walden in her blog notes “What is embodiment?” examines the “Embodiment and actuality sites of a traumatic past”.  She contrasts the juxtaposition of a brightly...

6-PP-3-3, Parallel Project Research – Embodiment in art as a philosophy

6-PP-3-3         Research embodiment in art as a philosophy One of the tutor suggestions for research was embodiment and in particular the writings of philosopher Maurice Merlau-Ponty.  This is a wide subject and not one into which I have even dipped my toes in previously.  I manged to obtain e-book copies of his seminal works: The...

6-PP, Parallel Project – Bibliography & List of Illustrations

6-PP, Parallel Project Bibliography & List of Illustrations Bibliography – Parallel Project 1950-1954, H. (2020) Henri Matisse: Drawing with Scissors. Late Works 1950-1954 - disability arts online , Disabilityartsonline.org.uk. Available at: https://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/henri-matisse (Accessed: 25 June 2020). A Few Small Nips, 1935 by Frida Kahlo (2020). Available at: https://www.fridakahlo.org/a-few-small-nips-passionately-in-love.jsp (Accessed: 17 June 2020). Angelfire.com. (2020). Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception. [online]...

5-2 Project 2 – Parallel Project – Reflective Exercise

5-2    Exercise 2 – Parallel Project  - Reflective Exercise With the Parallel Project now well underway after a delayed start this reflective exercise comes at convenient moment as a point to reflect on what I have done and where the project is going, thus I can hopefully identify gaps in output, research, investigation etc. ...

6-PP-2-4. Parallel Project – Strand #4 [Aging]

6-PP-2-4, Strand #4 – Aging (Face change over decades) [UPDATED 19 Jun'20, revised video uploaded, see end of this post] in this strand of the Parallel Project I am looking at the effects of aging upon a face, i.e. how we change over time.  I have used my late father as the subject for this section. ...

6-PP-2-3. Parallel Project – Strand #3 [Spinal Damage]

6-PP-2-3, Strand #3 – Spinal Damage Continuing with the strand of investigation begun is “Strand #1” of this Parallel Project, specifically with the impediment of a repaired spine and the ongoing issues I have from it I have made a sculptural piece to illustrate the repair to my spine, what it involves and the ongoing...

6-PP-2-2. Parallel Project – Strand #2 [Skin Colour]

6-PP-2-2, Strand #2 – Skin Colour Updated, after tutorial. [23 Jun'20] Imagine a world in the future, where mankind has contacted beings on another planet, they have sent basic images of themselves to us and us to them.  We are both humanoid in form.  Communications take time so we jet off in our HYPER-spaceships to...

6-PP-2-1. Parallel Project – Strand #1 [Broken Bits]

This Parallel Project will include various strands of investigation and exploration and this will be completed below as separate projects and exercises.  These may in turn lead to new strands of investigation etc.  6-PP-2-1, Strand #1 – Me and My Broken Bits Before looking at how a body might be influenced in what, how etc....

6-PP-1. Parallel Project – Introduction

6-PP-1. Parallel Project - Introduction Part 6        Parallel Project I will use the Parallel Project to look at art and painting with regard to the following question …. The Question “Embodiment in art is not just mental it is physical as well” 6-1      Introduction and Outline of Parallel Project Artists do not make art,...