As the first post in this new blog, I feel that I should introduce myself. When sitting and writing to an unknown audience, it’s difficult to know where to begin. As you might expect I have experienced all of my past, but the tricky part is where to bring you in. I am a first year BA Hons Fine Art studying at Falmouth University, after completing my Foundation Diploma last year in my home town of Taunton, Somerset. Despite the boring and somewhat cliché starter, it’s the best way I can think of introducing you to myself and my working practice. People always ask me what sort of artist I am (in my opinion I honestly don’t think it is possible to ever wholly categorise an individual, especially an artist, into one particular ‘type’) but I always respond with some variation of an ‘eclectic practitioner’. I can’t say that I am specifically a painter, a drawer, a photographer or a sculptor because I am not. I all honesty I love to use any type of material when it comes to exploring my ideas or presenting an idea to a viewer, which to some may sound like an excuse for not having a speciality or a developed working practice. To me that’s not the case, I just choose not to restrict myself when the possibilities for experimenting and creating new work is endless. Saying this, lately I have focussed more on photography and sculpture, specifically in my Foundation Diploma where my work progressed into a series of three dimensional photographic joiners and corresponding two dimensional photographic prints, all in response to the themes of the influence of light and movement on a human form, the breaking down and re-assembly of the form, and its presentation in a space. Overall in that project I found that I expanded my existing knowledge and working practice, giving me a varied and refined body of experimental work with multiple refined pieces of a larger scale. Although I would have liked these pieces to have incorporated a wider variety of materials I feel that they embodied the themes that I wanted to visually present to a viewer. Over the summer I have been thinking about what it is that I want to explore during my studies at university. For one I want to continue and develop existing ideas from my Foundation projects, in addition to experimenting with a wider range of materials including more extensive 3D work and Printmaking. I also want to do more drawing. Bring on the sketch-a-day challenge which I will fail to keep up with (again).
For now there isn’t much more to tell. Actually, that is a lie. I have in fact already started my course at Falmouth, but wanted to start my journal with a refreshed overlook at my previous work and where I want to move forward with my studies. I feel better about my work that way; it’s not out of order and has a fairly clear beginning. So here’s to the new chapter in my artistic career.
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AuthorThird Year BA Hons Fine Art student studying at Falmouth University Archives
April 2017
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