Yesterday I attended the first of five day classes in Drawing and Movement at The Royal School of Drawing in London. It was a very full-on practical session where I learnt so much about drawing from the tutor, Sara Lee-Roberts. […]
An artist who I have briefly looked into in my studio practice is Rauschenberg, particularly his pieces made from cardboard. I decided to look at his wall structures made from cardboard when I began to collect and work onto pizza […]
Another artist I have taken inspiration from is Christopher Wool, who is a contemporary American painter. Best known for his paintings with large stenciled letterforms, the bold, black strokes of Wool’s text is contrasted against white backgrounds for maximum […]
An artist who I have been inspired by recently in my practice is Bob and Roberta Smith. The piece I did which I was most influenced by Bob and Roberta Smith was the piece I featured in my last […]
My dissertation was titled: Roles of drawing relating to Claes Oldenburg, Christo and Sol LeWitt. “Drawing is fundamental to and the core of the artists’ and designers’ work. It is the means by which artists learn to see and understand […]
To begin looking at my current work in a more critical way I am going to briefly reflect back to level 5 to analyse how my recent works links back to then and also how it has moved on from […]
To begin semester 2 I had a tutorial where I discussed what my plans were for my studio practice for this semester, and I decided I wanted to document my day-to-day life through my art. Which involves the work I […]
Last semester I began with a new subject matter, one which I felt would keep me focused for the entirety of level 6. The subject I chose was basing my practice on myself and so making my art personal to […]
The Cornwall-based multi-media sculptor writes a scathing letter criticising the institution he studied at and has been a fellow of since 2013.
A Reflection on my MA Fine Art end of year exhibition at Teesside University.
Each successive layer of rock pigment furthers the form of the image seen and remembered on West Beach, Watchet. The artist proof allows the opportunity to play with the forming of the image; the way I work with the printing ink creating […]
I am a third year student studying Fine Art at the University of Suffolk. I am beginning a blog to document my work through my final year and to help to critique my study.
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Final year blog for the BA (Hons) Fine Art at University of Suffolk.
What generates the reality I experience? According to David Eagleman it includes: Data captured by my senses and transmitted to the brain. Information sent to the brain by my own internal model of the world – facts learnt from previous […]
What our senses pick up – light, sound, taste, smell, sensations – isn’t piped straight to the brain. Instead this information is converted into electrical signals, transmitted to the brain, sifted through to identify patterns and then re-assembled. What results […]
