Month: July 2019

Pho 703 Week 9 Reflection & Observations Part 1

One of the big learning curves and discoveries for me during this module is that your art doesnt have to be printed huge and stuck to a wall in a gallery to be ‘art’.  An image can be made and displayed in a myriad of ways and indeed these methods may well contributes to the

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Pho 703 Week 6 Reflection & Activity Models of exhibition spaces

Having been somewhat released from the notion that the white wall gallery was the only way to display photography,  I may well still do this, I dont hate it, I just never considered alternatives before, what I would really like to do would be take the final images to some of the locations where one

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PHO 703 Week 5: Work In Progress

Revisiting the alternate histories strand of this project whilst in Paris I started wondering what would have become of the Eiffel Tower had it been dismantled as originally intended at the conclusion to the World Fair 1889. Constructed from 1887 to 1889 it was initially criticised by some of France’s leading artists and intellectuals for its

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Pho 703- Roadmap weeks 5 to 11

Title of Work: The Inbetweeen Places   A study exploring the notions of self identity as a part of the nation state represented as a claim on the land itself via enclosure and exclusion of ‘others’ and that identity in relation to cultural icons that also now form part of that states identity. Keywords: Borders, nationalism,

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