“Regarding the ‘flood’ or constant ‘bombardment ‘ of images permeating ever deeper into our lives, rephotograph every photographic image that you encounter on a single day. The quality of the image does not matter – use a camera phone or a compact camera. You should include videos as well as still photographs; just shoot one […]
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Landscape work at the “artwavewest”Contemporary art gallery, Morcombelake, Dorset.
Some really inspiring landscape pieces at the ‘art wave west’ gallery in Dorset made my hands itch to get going on the landscape module. Of particular interest for me was Claire Smith’s ‘Aerial 3’ 58cm x 63cm (above) The highly tactile abstracted aerial views show us the artist uses gesso to produce fragmented ‘sculptural’ pieces of the landscape and places these pieces together like a jigsaw […]
Documentary results
The results are out & I have passed with a 2:1. There were many positives in the summative assessment: “Overall Comments and Feed Forward The assignments and related research were clearly laid out and easy to access on your learning log. It was clear that the research carried out during the course of this module […]
MoMA: Seeing through photographs
I have just successfully and on time finished the 6 week course produced by MoMA & offered by Coursera. The course was very informative, the reading extensive and the contemporary photographers mostly thought-provoking. The 3 photographers I found most thought provoking and who will, in all probability, influence my future work were: Walid Raad, founder & sole member […]
