Reflection 15/03/21: This upcoming period until beginning of Jan was an experimental period, I felt confused with where to go next with film but this helped me zone into projection into the aspects of Mulvey’s essay of the male gaze […]
Bobby Bakers show, Diary Drawings, is a exceptional look into mental health over the past 3 decades. An observant approach to broach a subject that has long been buried. With deteriorating mental health in the mid 1990s, Baker was admitted […]
After my formative assessment with Jane, I wanted to continue the exploration of performative art as the feedback was so successful from my group crit 20/11/20. Hannah Wilke did this in her performative work I researched last year L5 which impacted […]
In the context of the gallery space, the work definitely looks minimal or conceptual art because the location predisposes it to something ornamental and non-functional. Outside the gallery, the shape of the sculpture is likely to be attributed to something […]
I had a very useful critique with my peers and tutors, as they always are. I really do enjoy crits! Due to covid it was a digital critique which was just as useful if not more, as I was able […]
I visited Firstsite mainly to see Corneila Parker’s work Neither from nor towards (1992) within the exhibition “Tell me the story of all these things”. Cornelia Parker Neither from nor towards (1992) Image by Elgin Thwaites 25/10/2020 I really liked […]
I visited Firstsite during a break in the lockdowns back in October this year. I had seen that Phyllida Barlow was exhibiting here and I really like her sculptural work. I liked that the work was being shown in the […]
I used Photoshop to place the sculpture I made the other day into photos in gallery spaces around the School of Art, and in photos I took in the countryside a few years ago. I’ve changed the scale of the […]
Glasgow based artist known for working in film, sculpture, print, performance and installation will represent Scotland at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia in 2022.
What do Carl Gent and Gemma Marmalade have in common? Carl Gent is an artist from Bexhill-on-Sea, UK. His work frequently involves performances based on his researches into Cynethryth, the eighth century Queen of the Mercians and co-founder of Bexhill-on-Sea. Carl […]
I went to the metal workshops this morning and made this piece with the rollers. I’ve talked it over with Gay and said I wanted the metal sheet (10cm in width) curved similar to a concertina with the rollers, and […]
02/12/20 I had an end of semester informal assessment with Jane to see where I am at – theoretically/practically. We discussed this new relation of social media & the female gaze where I have tried to make it work in my […]
For my dissertation I am analysing the digitalization of the gaze through time due to social media, and the changes that are present with the way women perceive themselves and others. Chapter 1, starts off with Jacques Lacan, a […]
in the original plan, december 2020 was to have been the first open festive period for the museum of making. following the impact of the covid-19 pandemic this year, we’re a little behind where we thought we would be and […]
(Photo download from Project Art Works site) So Adrian Searle has written a review in the Guardian newspaper about the Jarman award 2020. Yesterday I made the mistake of logging onto Twitter on my lunch break, to find that Adrian […]
Thanks to everyone who has supported this podcast so far – it has now reached 1000 plays! To celebrate this milestone there is now a special bonus episode online featuring a conversation with artist William Furlong, founder of the Audio Arts project […]
For our second meeting I had set the text ‘Looking Around: Where We Are, Where We Could Be’ by Lucy R. Lippard, published in Mapping The Terrain, New Genre Public Art, Edited by Susan Lacy. This is a book that […]
Shauna King, Reflecting on Nature, 2020, a series of photographs using a mirror in Abbey Grove wood. This is the outcome of an experiment where I went to a wooded area with some mirrors and played around with photography. I […]
With covid comes change… adapt or… I am a member of two Scottish societies who hold annual Opens, often together, this year they have both opted to hold an Online show. Thankfully, as we need to get our work out […]
