research journal (MA and beyond)
29.07.18: started to work on an edition of 10 screen prints for international print exchange IPE in the UK. the theme was open so i decided to continue my 'landscape and i' work, starting by simply contrasting inside and outside space in terms of form, pattern, symbol - something of the domestic (damask wallpaper) overlayed... Continue Reading →
26.07.18: in kraków for a few days and took a look at the 'motherland in art' exhibition in the MOCAK. 'motherland' - the title alone grabbed my attention as some of the research i had been doing on landscape, gender and identity touched on the way language is used to describe or ascribe a land/landscape... Continue Reading →
9-13 july 2018. spent the week working on ceramic processes with brigitta seck at NCAD this week. started by revising the main clay building processes with an emphasis on technique rather than concept, although we could have worked with a theme in mind it seemed better to let the processes see where they took me.... Continue Reading →
spent the day in island mill ceramic studios yesterday learning how to throw clay and work the wheel. i had a feeling it was going to be challenging before i started and so it was. centring the clay on the wheel at the start is key. also working with 2 hands all the time and... Continue Reading →
landscape, body, text development: continuing to explore binary relations relating to landscape, gender and body. developing on from the last time where i used text from the weather forecasts to mirror write, this time i used text i came across describing the irish landscape in an ideal way, to attract tourists. its odd how... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/OwbYKvpYafM went on instinct when i was out on the mountains doing some multiple gaze work last weekend. i had intended to work again on the gendered gaze in terms of far and near perspectives but this time with an unframed rectangular mirror rather than the circular mirror i used the last time. when i... Continue Reading →
https://youtu.be/YA5JblFczZU exploring outdoor landscape as material to see how it relates to the domestic landscape. i took this footage last weekend and felt it needed a narrative of some kind - the real material of the landscape seemed to suggest something about ideas and ideals about landscape and about domesticity and their objects... some kind... Continue Reading →
context for this post: this post relates to my video work 'i sweat and i sweat' which looks at real and idealised ideas about landscape, body, femininity through movement in the landscape. i just spent the last few evenings going through some of the videos i captured last week on the galtee mountains. came across... Continue Reading →
continuing on my exploration of gaze and the landscape in terms of gender. here are some images i took while out walking the mountains this time with a square unframed mirror. i also took lots of video footage which may become part of a short video piece with narration. i also have some interesting footage... Continue Reading →
spent the last 2 days at Damn Fine Print Studios working on 2 editions of screen prints. part of my exploration of real and unreal landscapes tying into gender and how we view the landscape. the whole process of landscape image making plays with unreal, ideal and the physical reality of making an image. testing... Continue Reading →
playing around with domestic objects today. had intended to get back to my tea set but got side tracked with other domestic objects, objects to move with and to the body - spoon, handles etc. let myself be led by the process and materials rather than a decided outcome as i had wanted to make... Continue Reading →
got back to my 3d processes today and almost finished my tea set (again a problem with the jug mold so ill do that again tomorrow). turns out the textured molds worked fine for shaping the pieces. decided to smooth the inner surfaces as its impossible to shape to forms and keep the texture using... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 