Artefact as Text
Tuesday 11th April
Introduction to Autumn Seminar
Artist talk - I focused on the key ideas important to me
light
time
editing
context
Sonya Lacey
Totally Dark (Chrorophyll) at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
She talks about Infrared light illuminating an object without drawing attention to yourself, this light is not for humans or animals, it is reciprocal with chlorophyll, scientists use it to test the health of plants.
what do I think about light?
she uses the camera as an extension of herself - it augments her sense of the world. Her work also explores moving image expressing time, borrowing from Foucault with regards to work and power. Politics impose order on the world which is similar to artists working with form.
the politics of making work for a woman, time is carved out of domestic life
Editing Early Modern Women” by Sarah Ross is something I could explore further “editing is always an ideological intervention, it is transitive…”
I can find the meaning in my work by investigating the contextual ideas around work I love, this will bring me closer to my studio work.
Wednesday 12th April
Group Critique Briefing - Form Gallery
with Kerin, Molly, Esther and Mike, Yolunda and Henry
great opportunity to see what everyone has been doing in the last few weeks and to give and receive feedback.
the comments were
first thought it was a landscape, when I moved closer I observed the figure. Its interesting how it ‘pulls you in’
is it a landscape - it reads like a quilt
landscape re the title : is ‘Mother’ relating to birth, fertility etc?
it can be read figuratively, there an interplay and complications between the distances
colour theory. Fiery, energetic, violence to the colours
Is Mother opening or closing? the group says it helps show the figure, however there is a generalist, universality about it.
Modernist canon about ‘form’ or ‘mother’ the could inform the work
Colour ‘theory’ versus ‘feeling’
Red suggests ambivilance about motherhood 0- blood
heirarchy within the canvas - figure is centrally positioned
floor vs flow state (?)
gender Hierarchy, invokes abstract expressionism
sketching charcoal brings the figure out and captures movement
Colour palette - Henry notes the decisions around temperature
brushes? other tools?
Light from the Tate 1700’s to Now
We walk to see this show at the Auckland City art gallery together as a group.
Introductions to the start of show by Noel and Yolunda
Detail of Turners
The Angel Standing in the Sun ext 1846
oil on canvas - JMW Turner uses atmospheric effects of light to amplify a sombre biblical theme from the Book of Revelation. The Archangel Micheal appears with his flaming sword, heralded by a rainbow, standing for truth and justice on the day of judgement.
Crit 2 Friday April 14th (day 4)
Molly, Kim, Michelle, and Trish, Yolunda - some of their thoughts
when standing too close, almost get lost in the chaos
Standing back reveals lines and shapes
enjoying the variety of marks, it doesn’t settle, something more spontaneous
some marks more deliberate, others more spontaneous
‘fauvism’ hard to read the colours
Hills are landscape marks
which is first - abstract or figuration. Bits that are concealed or revealed
enjoying the extra dribbles of inverted gravity
that are productive/non productive marks?
enjoying certain sections - perhaps one to many elements - like the fresher colours, some perhaps muddy - scale of the marks/concentration
if the figure was looser and less centered
Sarah F-?
read from left there is a confidence in the marks
red is a nice punch, strong colour associated with love, blood etc
less marks in the landscape is successful
skilful in colour, maybe focus on this
Its not about learning something new its about recognising what you have!