Tag: reflection
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Forty-seven vaguely flat paintings of flowers
Whilst I was in London for the Spectrum install, I went to see quite a few exhibitions at commercial galleries. Most of these were in Soho and Mayfair because I was a bit time-poor and needed to keep things fairly contained. I only learned relatively recently that you can just go into these sorts of…
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Spectrum
A long train journey back from London tonight. I am glad that I made the trip down. I could have posted the paintings, or asked Jonathan to print them for me, but I was lucky enough to have the time available to go in person. I am trying to take every opportunity to learn something…
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Context Matters
I saw the Hurvin Anderson exhibition at Tate Britain on Saturday. I knew that I wanted to see it. I knew that I was likely to enjoy it (unless they had really messed it up), and the framing controversy had made me a bit wary. I’m glad to say that it is VERY good. A longish digression…
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How to Feel Like a Renaissance Prince
It’s quite funny how I’ve transitioned from finding it really hard to write entries for this journal to wanting to write them all the time. I had no idea that there was a wee Samuel Pepys in me, bursting to get out and shout about what he had for breakfast. I think maybe the problem…
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Research Paper #3
This post will probably rattle around a bit, as I am just going to bang it out (as I imagine Danny Dyer might say). We had our first supervisory meeting today and I want to get my thoughts down quickly, partly because I have a tutorial tomorrow and I know that will probably change how…
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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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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…