I have started to looking at Isabel Nuno Del Buen as I am interested in the way she uses line and drawing with object within a space. I had been looking at Georges Perec in his descriptions and uses for a domestic space and was considering using his observations and findings of how one uses […]
The Curatorial Turn: From Practice to Discourse by Paul O’Neil (2006) Discussed during this weeks workshop on Curating/ Curatorial Practice – Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism – Is there no alternative? Additional reading – The Curatorial Turn. The Death of the Author, Roland Barthes 1967 https://drive.google.com/open?id=1a2LYacetDs1yArRu-kOFtvU6-nYDXEky
January 2018 – John Akomfrah – ‘Unfinished Conversations‘ – breathtaking and beautiful triptych film installation about Stuart Hall January 2018 – Susan Hiller – ‘Monument’ – Tate – very powerful, immersive huge monumental piece yet with the power to feel incredibly intimate when the viewer sits on the bench and listens with the single pair […]
As part of the the Falmouth Workshop this is one of the few I was able to book onto. I brought along some petri dishes of swabs I had taken from around my house – in particular the doorknobs It was a fascinating workshop and above are some images taken during the day. I am […]
first day using my studio space with objects I wanted to place together and play with the tubing really interests me again and I am thinking of adding sound to the tubing and using them to allow sound to travel and behave like listening devices
Working with the knobs and installed into a pendulum hanging from the ceiling it swings appears heavy sound is taken from news clips surrounding Weinstein news about sexual harrassment idea of each knob having own sound and to build into a cacophony of noise starting from individual sound to layer up – unable to discern […]
The image from the confessional boxes that I have used previously were evident all over Barcelona during my Summer holiday. Not only in the churches and the confessional boxes themselves (photos above), but in the paths that you walk on away from the churches This image or symbol continues to feature in my work and […]
Lucy and I discussed my charcoal drawings and talked about perhaps mixing up the drawing by use of animation – look at William Kentridge – we discussed rather than sticking on pictures of houses, use the videos of houses and woods to project into or through the drawings. Dirt is still part of the work […]
Thoughts after research tutorial meeting Look at my own work – pick one piece, then pick three strands and three artists for each strand. pipes, waste, dirt, woods Object – pipes – material – transitional Domestic Waste – dirt – feminism Woods – symbolism – psychoanalysis Domestic Waste Mary Douglas – Purity & Danger – rituals […]