The Logic of Language
15 September 09

Northumbria University

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28 October 09

To go along with the laser cutting I will be working on this semester, I will also attend this Symposium in Loughborough where my tutor, Sian Bowen, will be the key note speaker…

Cutting Edge : Lasers and Creativity

Loughborough University School of Art and Design 4 November 2009

Symposium Programme

9:00 Registration and Coffee

10:15 Welcome

Kerry Walton

Professor Marsha Meskimmon, Director of School of Art and Design

10:20 Introduction Professor Terence Kavanagh, Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences

10:30 Keynote

Siân Bowen

11:15 Slow Cutting – Jenny Smith

11:40 BREAK

11:50 Between emerging and commonplace – laser technology and the creative space – Marlene Little

12:15 Carbon Based Forms – Rachel Nee

12:40 Panel discussion Siân Bowen, Jenny Smith, Marlene Little, Rachel Nee

13:00 LUNCH

13:45 Jacob Schlaepfer – Rob Huddleston and Paul Whittaker

14:10 RESURFACED : an exploration of ‘design for upcycling’ through laser finishing for textiles – Kate Goldsworthy

14:35 Laser Processing for the Creative Industries – Sarah O’Hana

15:00 Panel discussion

Rob Huddleston, Paul Whittaker, Kate Goldsworthy, Sarah O’Hana

15:15 BREAK with refreshments

15:30 Distance=Planned Decisions – Joanne Berry

15:55 Lasers: Forming a relationship in the Making – Sarah Silve

16:20 Laser Facilitation in the Context of Hybrid Technology – John Angus

16:45 Panel discussion

Joanne Berry, Sarah Silve, John Angus

17:00 Close

17:05 Drinks reception

18:00 End

Cutting Edge : Lasers and Creativity

Loughborough University School of Art and Design 4 November 2009

Symposium Programme

9.30 – 6.00 Laser Demonstration

Barry Abson and David Barkham from Cad Cam Technology

Drawing Research Room

9.30 – 6.00 3 minute Rolling PowerPoint Presentations

Jenny Addrison, Parveen Bazaz, Roberta Bernabei, Libby Day,

Dan Heath, Faith Kane, Janette Matthews, Lauren Moriarty,

Sarah Robertson, Kerry Walton, 4d Designs – Mike Radford.

Post Graduate Teaching Space

Project Space

Presenters will be available for discussion at lunch break, 13.00 – 13.45

and 5.00 – 6.00 during the drinks reception

9.30 – 6.00 Exhibition of Products

Parveen Bazaz, 4d Design

Post Graduate Teaching Space

This event will be recorded to retain a record of the day.

Proceedings will be published.

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28 October 09

My first “artist talk” happened last week and thankfully it wasn’t as intimidating as I had expected it to be. At times I felt I could hear my own voice and had no control over what I was saying, my passion took over.

Our group was interesting, as I only knew the work of two others. I learnt that no matter whether you like the work visually, the ideas that underpin it, and the artist’s attitude to their practice is always the most important thing. I also discovered that we all experience the same anxieties and periods of being lost or stuck. This was very reassuring.

A major issue I will have to face is the documentation of my work. The pieces I have been working on this year are extremely difficult to photograph- would I tackle this with a professional photographer? Or decide that they should not be photographed at all?

An example of the difficulty in showing my work is here. Only slight marks can be seen, a very different experience is offered when viewed in reality…

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28 October 09

Notes from a nerve-wracking presentation…

Nathalie Bouleau Chabot: Third year Printmaker

Before I joined the course I studied one year of Fashion, things like pattern cutting and pin marking have influenced my style of working, and my clean, precise attitude probably comes from there too.

The use of paper is central to my practice and I am occupied in dealing with line, gesture and interruption to reveal paradoxical qualities of intent/accident reveal/ conceal substance / light and fragment/whole.

My work is difficult to photograph, an issue I will have to work on further in the course.

“Threadburn” was an accidental test piece, which was actually chosen to be shown in Japan along with three other works

Primitive and universal aspects are of interest to me. Last year I looked at modern and vernacular architecture, exploring lines. Marks and Traces can vary in the information they offer. The physical act and process of making, through methods such as burning, pouncing, piercing or cutting are important to me, as are the laborious, repetitive actions required to construct pieces of work.

This year, I am looking at the circle as a symbol and a motif. The symbols of man are infinite in their complexity but simple in their rules. The dot and the circle are symbols of the first order of all humans. A recurrent motif in architecture of every civilisation, they can show the reflective self-awareness that is present in all humans of all cultures and locations.

I will also become more sculptural, thinking about how we physically look at work. When I work, a contemplative space is created wherein I am more fully able to reflect on my own sensory experience. I want to create a similar meditative space for the viewer where they can experience the familiar through my work in infinite ways; with mark making acting as a form of contact between artist and medium, artist and audience and audience and work.

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