research journal (MA and beyond)
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 →
touchstones and a domestic landscape: reading through the collection of poems by Eavan Boland 'In Her Own Image'. the title alone connects with many ideas i have been reading about relating to landscape and gender; how the landscape is gendered as a view to behold and gazed upon like upon a woman's body, how different... Continue Reading →
(image of Greyson Perry's The Upper Class at Bay, from The Vanity of Small Differences tapestry series, 2012, taken at the RHA Gallery, 2018). had a great visit to the RHA with my students to see work by Greyson Perry. in his series of 6 tapestries 'The Vanity of Small Differences' (2012) Perry presents contemporary scenes which explore... Continue Reading →
reflecting and sorting through the arguments: in working my way through the texts that i have been reading about landscape and gender, i have come across many arguments about how landscape is gendered. sorting through the various arguments, i think it will be helpful to list ways that landscape has been gendered and feminised (i... Continue Reading →
continuing some research reading on landscape and gender, i came across a study in 'Feminist Geographies, Explorations in Diversity and Difference" (1997) by a Women and Geography study group. in the chapter "Feminist Geographies of Environment, Nature and Landscape" the study group describe how landscape and landscape imagery is used to support and question dominant... Continue Reading →
areading through what the geographer Gillian Rose has to say about landscape and gender in 'Feminism & Gender, the Limits of Geographical Knowledge (1993). in her chapter 'Looking at Landscape: The Uneasy Pleasures of Power' (p. 86 - 112) Rose discusses how the term landscape and landscape paintings are embedded with cultural values which indicate... Continue Reading →
landscape & gender: 3d materials and processes: starting to consider exploring landscape & gender in some 3d form. stocked up on object making materials - about as 3d as i can get; herculite plaster, terracotta clay and magma white clay which i could fire later. something about walking in the landscape during the snow has me... Continue Reading →
(image: "The Nature of Balancing, Port Clyde and Me" 1979, Mary Beth Edelson). researching for my contextual study, i am reading through what Rebecca Solnit has to say about landscape in "As Eve Said to the Serpent" (2001). here she traces the relationship of landscape, gender and art. "a new landscape" in contemporary art: in... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 