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Untitled blog post from "Agree to Disagree – the art of ignoring your original intentions."
Degradation is a word that can be used in many a different context. I feel it’s one way to see the world, as a constant death or of dying. When something degrades it signifies time, and with it a space […]
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Untitled blog post from "Agree to Disagree – the art of ignoring your original intentions."
So, I had my assessment for my PGDip phase. Now, i’m my own worst critic, but I don’t feel that it went well. However, last month I collaborated with Video artist Lucy Cheung to create a video for an exhibition […]
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Untitled blog post from "Agree to Disagree – the art of ignoring your original intentions."
The following link re-directs to my Flickr account, documenting the official photography done for Dance4 as part of the Nottingham Contemporary performance entitled ‘Giving The Eye’: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jamesfickling/5562539… I also created an 8min video as part of the performance, in collaboration […]
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I am interested in the relationship between person and place, and philosophical ideas of how the presence of an individual within a place alters that place (or at the very least the conception of that place). I have always been […]
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As an artist, you need to constantly be wary of the effects that side projects can have to your, shall we say, “main practice”. Over the summer I began to do something i’ve always wanted to do – fashion & […]
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http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/art_and_design/deg…
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Untitled blog post from "Staffordshire University"
http://www.staffs.ac.uk/schools/art_and_design/deg… …the show… …my show… …our show…
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…And here it is. The Graduate Exhibition. Three years have passed by and it doesn’t feel like two minutes. I never expected anything, I went in with open eyes but a strong sense of self. I have always questioned as […]
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Fuelled by Edwardian conventions and using art practice to scrutinize my own predicament, I have set out to uncover who James Fickling is, mediated through the eyes of the other – an alter ego who co-authors my work. …And because […]
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Psychologist Frederic Bartlett noted when we deconstruct an image, it soon becomes an autobiographical process in which we end up analysing and speaking about our relationship to an image via our personal memories. My practice does this very thing, addressing […]