Daphne Wright – Emotional Archaeology Arnolfini Bristol December 2016 As you walk into the Gallery’s first room you are stumped by the majestic white stallion splayed on the floor (Figure 1). Fallen from its commanding stature with all its undercarriage on display, you start to explore what you think is there. This isn’t a horse […]
Watched Kate Tempest in concert – the whole set was her new album ‘Let them eat Chaos’. Performed chronologically, the lyrics are all set at the same time 4.18 am on the same street. All strangers and each story a song. Pete who is broke and waiting for his pay cheque for booze, Zoe packing up […]
Below is a bibliography of some books that I am currently looking at to give you an idea of my current and future thinking Symbols of the soul : therapy and guidance through fairy tales / Birgitte Brun, Ernst W. Pedersen, Marianne Runberg ; foreword by Murray Cox. Transmitter/ receiver: the persistence of collage Collage […]
The Wellcome Collection This is a beautiful and sensitive exhibition. It is quite moving and evocative with a variety of works and historical information on Bedlam, it’s origins and journey. The first room contains an installation by Eva Kotatkova. She describes her approach as ‘archaeological’. From her frequent visits and research trips to a psychiatric […]
Midori Harima I came across Harima’s work and found it quite interestingly disturbing. I am enjoying the collage work that I am doing and want to push it further – the use of real 2d photographic images manipulated onto 3d figures transform the figures into drawings with disturbances and a glitchy feel about them. Mariele Neudecker […]
I want to explore through play with materials and space. To create environments and spaces. I want my process to rely on muscle memory, stored memories, attachment to compositions and patterns. To create with unconscious determination. Considering the term ‘Mediascape’, I chose Yayoi Kusama as she is difficult to define by category or classification. She […]
I have begun to look at artists who work in environments or create environments I watched Forest, Field & Sky: Art out of Nature and how these six artists relate to nature such as Andy Goldsworthy, James Turrell, David Nash (tree circle), Julie Brook (fire pits in water) and Richard Long (path) Although I find their work […]
Site Specific Work Miwon Kwon – One place after another – READ Doris Salcedo – Shibboleth Watch TATE shots – Site Specific Roger Hions Mark Wallinger
READ Eflux Journal #24 – Hito Steyerl – In Free Fall: A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective about Art thinking about contemporary post – modernism -had currency, doubted, not useful way of thinking is our own work contemporary? Field of Fine Art diagram again -think about this to contextualist my own practice – crossovers and […]