Critical Thinking – Mapping the Mediascape of Contemporary Art – 20/09/2016

Divisions of Fine Art – across the traditional classification is difficult (impossible) some artists explicit in they unpredictable patterns of practice others exclusively work with historically established medium module embraces emphasis away from FA being understood by sub-division into stable categories towards one that admits hybrid practices – unpredictability and transformation old system is problematic […]

Jan Svankmajer

Out of all the videos I watched, these two are the ones that stood out for me.  I have been videoing close ups of peoples mouths whilst they are eating – I haven’t edited any yet but need to I am interested in how repulsive it is to watch, by emphasising the act of eating, […]

John Baldessari

Following my tutorial with Gillian – she suggested looking at Bladessari. At first I didn’t see any reference to any of my work but on reflection perhaps the play of established imagery, the ridiculous changing of image to make into something different, funny, obscure or unsettling. We talked about exploring the play with objects that are not […]

Degree Show Falmouth

Helped assist 3rd year student Isobel Ramos set up a site specific installation over one week Useful exercise seeing how an artist would use the space and people available to realise their visual ideas Isobel had to be flexible in her approach to the install as not everything worked as she had envisaged – although […]