Another video displayed, which was the work of Nick Uff, which was a music video for the band "Portishead" and was entitled "the Rip", this was a wonderful video based on cartoon style images animated into dreamy transitional moving and flowing worlds.
The concept of taking up residences was also discussed, and it was recommended that we look for artist run spaces such as
- the Outpost Gallery in Norwich
- Grizedale arts
- East Street's arts in Leeds
- and the waiting arts centre in Cambridge etc.
Many of these residences can be found on the website artscommunities.org
Various other examples were shown such as an example by Gareth Jones who spent 10 weeks in residency at the University of Oxford, St John's College. This was presented in the form of a video entitled "cityscape 9" 2015.
Within this video the points I noted were
- materiality
- function
- form and shapes
A nice quote picked up from the video was "outwardly certain, inwardly doubting".
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Following the lecture, I returned to the studio and completed some further work on my garden gnome painting, but this time I decided that I would make the features less obvious. The feedback I received was positive from my peers, but I do want to explore this further over the coming weeks in order to try different objects perhaps and most certainly different materials to play with.
I'm pleased with the results of these little experiments, I think the slightly ambiguous and disappearing objects create a much more interesting painting, and may draw a spectator towards them in a state of curiosity.
Whilst these are still representational paintings, there is a level of abstraction to them that goes beyond simple two-dimensional. By using the plaster of Paris mixed with acrylic to create an impasto type effect, needs to be worked further as I am not happy that these initial sketch/paintings have enough body and form to differentiate themselves from other work, and originality.
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