Studio Shed | Update
I have been working on several canvases for an upcoming group show curated by my fellow student at Bucks, Danielle Teper. The exhibition will be at Wolfson College, Oxford, June 12th-July 1, 2011.
I do have some recent work I could show but I really want to make something new with the space and wall in mind.The deadline is close.
My current work is a continuation of the small drawings I started during our dissertation semester. By incorporating drawing and painting my aim is to find the ‘meeting point’ where these elements encounter each other and only just hold together; when the visual rhythm, sound, surface tenson and illusion coincide. The exciting activity in the studio is the decision making.
Marion Piper – Work in Progress | Wolfson
Prompted by the excerpt of my blogger profile published in the a-n Degree Show supplement, I re-read the interview and have been reflecting on the changes in my practice since last summer. Everything mentioned is still relevant. However there are some significant developments taking place.
I have realised how little I knew/know of current international painting and through researching my dissertation the axis of my view point has shifted which has given me both context and confidence.
Drawing has become very important. As activity and also within the paintings.
I realise that my relationship to ‘source material’ is changing. I feel now that I was looking for/at, certain places and things as source material. Now I recognise that these ‘inspirations’ are in fact simply examples of what I am already thinking about and responding to. So, now I am attempting to work directly from this position. It feels good.
My experience in February of four days in New York, walking in the city and visiting galleries and museums, had a huge impact on me. From the strength in the simplicity of the work of reductive artists, Kelly[1], Judd, Le Witt, Ryman to the punch of the masters at the Met and MoMA; everything was humming. An inspirational trip to Brooklyn to meet Matthew Deleget at MINUS SPACE[2] (Dissertation subject) was very motivating.
I have been working on several canvases in the studio, layering drawing and painting.
[1] http://www.matthewmarks.com/exhibitions/2011-02-12…
[2] http://www.minusspace.com/
I have enjoyed reading through the blogs this morning. It is interesting how several lines, written by others, have link up with seemingly random questions in my own head, giving momentum to my thoughts.
John Harris’s opener, ‘What does John Harris want to make work about?’ has an echo; so what is it I want to make work about?. For my first level assessment I filled the room with work and was asked what it was about. I could not answer; it wasn’t clear to me at all. Three years on, and post dissertaton, the answer is much clearer or should I say nearer.
Angela Dow-Wright’s unravelling of her personal influences scratch at my own reaccuring themes that beg more investigation. Objects, colour and experiences that I had thought to have a narrative role in my work, now appear to be related to visual perception and kinaesthesia.
Ryan Hughes mid-point review experience of installing work too high reminds me of a similar occasion and his consideration of viewer interaction with his work brings me back to, how is what I want to make achieving my aims?
I shall go and reflect on articulating my practice and perhaps select some work for a mini retrospective.
Thanks everyone, I was going to write about my fantastic trip to New York, but this has been a genuinely valuable experience. NYC later in the week.
