Author: benlingardstudio
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Resistance
I have been thinking about the role of art in resistance. It’s the May Day weekend and I’m going to the march in Glasgow tomorrow. Last night I saw a play at the Tron Theatre about the Lee Jeans sit-in. It was amazing, but it also made me wonder about where we are now. I…
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Words
So, I’m still not entirely convinced by my study statement. I don’t think it is wrong exactly, and I don’t think I’m completely barking up the wrong tree, but I do have a growing suspicion that I have tried to over-academicise the whole thing. I have spent a lot of time trying to give the…
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Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers
When we were in London for the interim show, I made time to see Snow Leopards and Skyscrapers by Sarah Morris at White Cube. The attendant told me off for trying to take pictures, so these are scraped from the website. I had wanted to see the show anyway, but it ended up being one of those…
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Research paper
I have been giving some thought to possible ideas for the research paper and I think that I want to keep it closely aligned with my study statement. When I was an undergraduate, I wrote my final-year dissertation on a topic that related directly to my studio practice and I found that very helpful in…
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Interim show
I used the interim show to test an idea I had been returning to on and off for some time. Collage plays a significant role in my practice: I often use it as a research tool or as source material for paintings and prints. At times I also make more sculptural collages, though in the…
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Who owns what?
As I reworked my Study Statement, I gave some thought to whether I might use AI images generated by other people rather than making new ones myself. On the surface, that seemed like it might be a way to reduce my own direct entanglement with image-generation systems. It felt like a possible way of keeping…
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Assessment feedback
I have reworked my study statement in response to three developments. First, I revisited it in light of the Unit 1 assessment feedback, which I found thoughtful and genuinely helpful. Later in this post, I outline the ways in which I have responded to that feedback. Second, the Interim Show has influenced how I now…
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Back to work
Monday morning and I’m back on the train to Edinburgh for the last week of term at Leith. The last couple of weeks have given me much food for thought. There is a lot to unpack from the interim show, the residency, and the Unit 1 feedback and I want to get on with things…
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Interim show prep. #2
Last week I spent a bit of time experimenting with ideas for the collage that I am planning to make for the interim show. As luck would have it there was a crit in the Zoom session on Thursday so I was able to discuss my plans with Sofi and Alex E. Both seemed quite…
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Interim show prep. #1
Last week I started sketching out some ideas for the collage piece that I am planning to make for the interim show. I started with some digital collages and will work up some physical tests this week. I started with my original idea of riffing on the physical architecture of GPUs. I am probably going…