Preparing for Degree Show and reflection on project…
I think I have always know that this project has been bigger than my degree project and so in away you could say I’ve bitten off more than I can chew.
For me this will be an on going piece of work as there is know way I can fully achieve what I want to in the time scale – I don’t know when this project will ever be finished.
Instead I am trying to get it to a place which signifies the end of this chapter rather than the end of the book.
I think knowing in myself that I don’t expect myself to have created paintings that fully summarise and give example to ‘active paint’ allows me to except these paintings for what they are.
They are working towards it. In terms of thinking about how to display my work for the degree show I think back to when I saw Francis Bacon’s paintings at the Bacon Moore exhibition in Oxford.
It was an experience that will stay with me. I strive for my paint to be empowered with the ability to take a viewers breath away and consume them the way that first Bacon I saw did – ‘Portrait of Henrietta Moraes’, 1963.
I want the physicality and language of my paint to be an experience. It is for this reason that the conceptionally the space for my degree show should be enclosed or have a corner at the least. This will allow the paintings to ‘talk’ to each other and also ‘wrap around’ the viewer.
There also needs to be light so that the texture of the paint and its different consistencies are fully visible and alive.
