research journal (MA and beyond)
my xmas was spent with family in australia. although the sum total of my art making involved making glitter slime with my nieces, i did manage to see a great exhibition of pipilotti rist's video installation work in sydney's museum of contemporary art. i also saw some work by other contemporary australian and aboriginal artists... Continue Reading →
just checked out some art in the museumof contemporary art while here in sydney. the main exhibition running is pipilotti rist's sip my ocean - a collection of her work from over the last decade or so by the swiss video installation artist. Sip full of multi-video sound and vision installation to immerse body and... Continue Reading →
https://www.unc.edu/courses/2006spring/geog/021/001/massey.pdf a text that i return to again and again is Doreen Massey's 'a global sense of place' in 'space, place and gender' (1994). This text was written in 1994 by the geographer Doreen Massey. it sets out Massey's arguments for how to define place and develop a sense of place in a postmodern time... Continue Reading →
carborundum printing: had a great weekend at graphic print studio in dublin learning a new printing technique using carborundum. one of the many print techniques i want to develop. great scope to experiment with mark making, texture and colour. lends itself to landscape... ordered a new bench printing press so i can work away myself.... Continue Reading →
'experiment 4': still from a short video piece i made as part of form, fracture frame. i came across an article on landscape, space and gender in an irish context and its post-colonial identity by Sighle Bhreathnach-Lynch. seems somehow relevant as a frame for my form, fracture, frame task (experiment 4). referring to the past i... Continue Reading →
'P45': following up on monday's class discussions about the climate for art making here, i had a great chuckle at laura fitzgerald's video piece 'P45' about the state of a viable art practice: the cycle of studio, applications, rejections etc, all to the neglect of home, family and 'a decent fucking job'. enough to make... Continue Reading →
looking into archives for this next task. many to choose from but have always been interested in having a look at the national photographic archives ... below, notes on my research as i go. 1: The National Photographic Archives (NPA): location: meeting house square, temple bar. dublin. contents: holds the collection of photographs held by... Continue Reading →
decided to keep making and keep printing today. finished the lino cuts, rubbings and then printed a few together. yes better as a series than separate. better a softer colour also. next step overlapping? might also revert to drawing - overlap drawings, continuous line drawings? just printed a small edition of 5 until i figure... Continue Reading →
early start to a making day. for some reason worked in silence. spent time working on a series of lino prints of furniture stored in the shed from my grandparents home. unhomed chairs. as i worked, i began to consider the direction and position of the furniture. maybe position and direct along lines of gender?... Continue Reading →
http://2017.halftone.ie/prints/elaine-crowe/ happy to be part of Halftone Print Fair this year with two screen prints from my Ban an Tí series: Scissors and Masher (2017). took a good bit or organisation re cutting, signing, framing and delivering to The Library Project in Temple Bar - no parking so two bruised arms from carrying the box... Continue Reading →
responding to some of the ideas and questions posed by Les Bicknell last night. what i actually do in the process of making: yesterday - open. connect. close. move. listen. take. tape. draw. rub. draw. cut. rub. cut. lift. cut. fold. stack. open. squeeze. roll. align. press. rub. lift. lay. (roll. align. press. rub. lift. lay... Continue Reading →
context for this post: i include this post which i did as part of my 'form, fracture, frame' task because the video work 'for kathleen' (experiment 4) was in many ways the starting point for my exploratoration of landscape and gender. it indicated that object could be a way of exploring landscape and gender and instigated my exploration... Continue Reading →
elaine crowe 