I run a forum of artists that meets once a month called Field/s, I set it up with funding I was awarded by Artquest in partnership with the Photographers’ Gallery and always invite a guest to join us.
At one of our recent meetings I shared my first analogue and digital print with the forum to get feedback. It was an interesting conversation as the work is still only in a phase of development, further made more confusing as I’ve been using existing materials from previous projects as my source material to develop the work technically. I’ve finally reached a stage where I can now work on the project and know that technically I have it under control. Therefore the conversation was mostly highlighting and discussing the areas of the print that technically were most successful or interesting and the myriad of possibilities that I can exploit with this new process. I look forward to seeing where the project takes me now that I know how to work with the material, bringing together analogue and digital techniques and process for the first time—something no one else has attempted with this paper before and something I wouldn’t have been able to even think about without the support of the a-n professional bursary I was awarded.
