This blog is being made as part of on going academic research post an accredited education programme- MA Photography with Falmouth University
Absolutely thrilled to be selected for the Royal Birmingham Society Of Artists Graduate programme! This really is a great honour and an important step on my journey as an artist, separating my commercial and personal practice has always been a struggle internally for me, being recognised as an artsist in my own right, not just
This module has proven pivotal in moving my project along. Ive looked at different ways of presenting the images, creating the images. Its involved exploring the moving image and the brief to create a trailer led me into looking in a less linear manner, by which I mean moving my gaze away from the tableau
“The act of photography is like going on a hunt in which photographer and camera merge into one indivisible function. This is a hunt for new states of things, situations never seen before, for the improbable, for information” (Flusser) The leaning tower of Pisa, as iconically Italian as the Eiffel Tower is Parisian.However given
As part of the exploration as to where the images may finally be displayed I was overlooking a very simple and effective avenue. Instagram! So Obvious but not so obvious when you still consider the images or a project as work in progress. Sharing an idea feels kind of risky, what if its decried as
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
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
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
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,
For this activity, we have been asked to create a ‘dummy’ publication that relates to our FMP project. A draft version in full. Whereas an exhibition operates in a specific space and towards an intended audience for a limited period of time, a publication offers a viewer an opportunity to live with a collection of