research journal (MA and beyond)
journey through an analogue process exploration - returning to unease: for the last few weeks i have been getting ready to start exploring again - not that i had stopped but more that i had not done anything really unknown. starting this type of exploration seems necessary to keep me pushing at the questions i'm... Continue Reading →
journey through undressing the horizon getting real: recently i have been writing up an exhibition proposal about what my work is about and some ideas about how i intend to install work. it was all feeling a little bit aspirational until today when i just started to experiment physically with the materials, forms and type... Continue Reading →
some exploratory research: thinking about the edge of the pictorial frame and limits chosen to contain landscape as image, i went to sandymount to gather some footage of the sea. the sea as a landscape stretches far to the horizon so it seemed like a good place to go to to examine how i contain... Continue Reading →
ease and unease in the studio: in the studio again to work on a landscape image that i have been planning to do for someone for a while. the landscape means a lot to this person rather than to me, although i do know this landscape and have walked it. having explored colour related to... Continue Reading →
kick-starting some uninterrupted days in the studio with some reading research. continuing my research reading on landscape and body, i have been reading Stacy Alaimo's paper "Trans-corporeal Feminism and the Ethical Space of Nature" in 'Material Feminism' (2008). here, Alaimo argues for a non-binary approach to nature/culture or body/culture. some notes... 'flight from nature': for... Continue Reading →
a bit of making: thought i'd do some screen printing for christmas - nothing about landscape's gendered framing! but art making all the same. happy to be physically engaged in a process where the outcome is not tied up with 'what it is doing or saying' beyond creating a physical card. sometimes success criteria is... Continue Reading →
how to access work: the best part of doing this review task was getting to see some of the many exhibitions i have been wanting to see but hadn't got around to. i wasn't sure what way to wanted to tackle this task but as i visited these exhibitions i became more interested in how... Continue Reading →
making rules: with RT leading today's making day, we started off by looking at some rules and manifestos by other artists - sister corita kent, marina abromovic, john age, dogma 95 etc. then made a list of some rules for today's making - experiment, have a spoken component, undo what is done, use a new... Continue Reading →
initial thoughts: i am about to begin a new task which focuses on audience and site. in thinking about audience and site, the idea of immersive experience comes to mind and also some conflicting thoughts on this type of work and exhibition. i recently saw Olafur Eliasson's 'in real life' exhibition in Tate Modern. i... Continue Reading →
journey through blur landscape the hand and the margins: i spent the weekend experimenting with screen print bitmaps. i had a particular process in mind that i wanted to try using the 'wrong' side of the transparent film. over the years i have accidentally printed my bitmaps on the wrong (glossy) side of the transparent... Continue Reading →
questions about relationships: in preparation with a tutorial with MW, i have been trying to distill some of the key questions that i have been recently working on. i guess i can boil it down to a series of questions around relationships related to myself and the landscape - relationships between landscape as image and bodily... Continue Reading →
continued making - experimental rough cuts: i set the last few days aside for experimenting with stop/go animation to see what it might suggest in terms of landscape as still and moving image and all the things that i have been working through re landscape, body, image etc. no real outcome in mind except to see... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 