research journal (MA and beyond)
spent last saturday in Island Mill Studios in Thomastown learning how to make print transfers for ceramic ware. lots of potential for this type of work as it allows you to play around with print, text and 3d objects. could be a way to explore some of the landscape print series i am working on... Continue Reading →
revising my plan: just making sure that i keep on top of the deadlines looming. here are the main elements i am working on and the important dates for them to be completed by. important dates: written work: 14th May, exploratory project: information sent electronically by 31st May, physical work sent on 31st May to arrive for 7th... Continue Reading →
how to spot fake news: facebook sent me this information. it seems relevant to my exploratory work on real / romantic landscapes and how the landscape is presented, represented.... 'how to spot fake landscapes'? how would the text look like with landscape imagery? could i apply the ways fake news is created to landscape imagery? anyway... Continue Reading →
artist statement: The Image of Her: This body of exploratory work looks at my relationship to the landscape. Through a variety of lens based work and 3d processes, I explore how the landscape is viewed and experienced according to gender. My exploration questions the validity of binary gendered relationships, in terms of differentiated male and... Continue Reading →
context for this post: this post relates to my screen print series which i developed as part of my exploration of real and ideal landscapes. here i looked at how images of landscape are altered or edited to present a more ideal version which is often at odds with real conditions of the landscape, the... Continue Reading →
context of this post: this making day, as well as other days spend exploring clay, plaster and 3d processes was an important part of the process leading to my video work ' i shiver and i shit' which i submit for assessment as well as a sample of the clay work 'saucer'. 3d processes became a... Continue Reading →
two short videos of the landscape that i recorded from the windows in gortussa; inside looking out on a very wet landscape. touches on a few things that i have been thinking about - landscapes & gender and their binaries; inside & outside, the domestic & the great outdoors, real & romantic, partial views &... Continue Reading →
context for this post: i had been doing a lot of reading for my contextual study about landscape and gender and how landscape is a visual structuring system that reflects the values of the society that produces it, namely values about class and gender. part of my reading (Rose (1993), Solnit (2004), McDowell (1999)) discussed the... Continue Reading →
(image: Alice Maher's wood block print, part of Vox Materia exhibition in Source Arts Centre, Thurles) i made a visit to Alice Maher's Vox Materia exhibition in the Source Arts Centre in Thurles yesterday. her work consists of large wood block prints and a series bronze castings of the negative space of various hand gestures.... Continue Reading →
(image: Many Ferries, Jack B. Yates, 1948). i just watched an interesting documentary on RTÉ player called Soul of Ireland - The Landscape Painter (2016). although focusing on painting there was a lot i could relate to in my contextual study. it also gave a very romanticised notion of the irish landscape and made little or no... Continue Reading →
context for this post: i include this post as it underpins my reason for being in the studio pulling prints which i include for assessment. i also feel that the manipulation of landscape images is also related to my video work ('i slouch and i asymmetric') which looks at symmetry, balance and the search for an ideal... Continue Reading →
context for this post: this post relates to the video piece 'i see and i saw' which i developed about real and romantic ideas about landscape using text and the body. idyllic landscapes: some of the texts i have been reading about landscape discuss how the natural landscape has been idealised and romanticised for various... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 