Now that our studio work and journals have been assessed, this week we have been allowed back into the studios to start working again. Despite the fact that I know that I want to continue with my current ideas (whereas a lot of people are starting afresh) I have found that the ‘lull’ where we weren’t allowed in our studios and were detached from all of our work was a struggle; it felt unnatural to be completely cut off from my work and as a result I feel odd now coming back to my studio. In some ways it is a great opportunity to look at my work with fresh eyes, but I now feel a little stuck. A lot of ideas have been floating around in my head as a result of doing some research over this period but the chance to put them into practice has been limited. To try and get my head in the right place, I have commenced to do a lot of research. This has been to try and contextualise my work for one which (was a necessity before), but secondly it is also a way for me to compile all of my ideas through looking at other peoples’ work. I find that through doing this I can focus on the ideas which I think are the strongest or the most interesting. I have been looking at the work of Matthew Ritchie and, and the drawings of Henri Michaux and Wols; all of these artist have a particular sensibility towards line which I find fascinating, and has really inspired me to continue with my drawings and potentially make something more refined from them. I have also been considering the ideas of encountering and capturing elements of the environment through perspective, such as viewfinders or mirrors, which has led me to the work of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures and the mirrored works of Robert Smithson; I find an interesting connection between these two artists who approach the human relationship with landscape in totally different ways, one through the manipulation of materials in response to the environment, and the other creating pieces that are directly involved with the land and alter the viewer’s perspective of it as a result. From here I want to start experimenting with line and form both in two and 3 dimensions, and hopefully moving into print to stay consistent with my previous work, but I hope to include the skills that I have picked up through my recent printing workshops, and develop the prints further by manipulating them and incorporating them with other materials.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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