How often do you see people walking and reading their texts or on the train and reading their tablet rather than enjoying the view? What are we missing when we do that? Breaking the initial question down into its two … Continue reading Research task – Your environment (P.125)
Dr. Greg Shapley is an Australian cross-media, composer, curator and academic. His work Phoenix is part of a series titled ‘Non-representational Self-Portraits’. The description of the artwork on the Saatchi Art website states that the work has: …literally, been extracted from an image of the artist’s face using an intriguing process developed over time by Dr Shapley. This is a mechanical photographic process, yet this image renders up a a myriad of organic, idiosyncratic detail more akin to illustration or design. Saatchi Art Unfortunately there is no more information about the process and little more about Dr. Shapley so it … Continue reading Research task – Greg Shapley – Phoenix (P.123)
As part of the research for this section we are encouraged to find examples of photographers or artists who create portraits without including the human figure. One of the artist I have come across is Justine Varga, whose work, Maternal Line won the Olive Cotton award, named after the pioneering Austrialian modernist photographer of the 1930s and 40s, Olive Cotton (1911-2003); in 2017. The work was controversial, partly because it is not a traditional, figurative portrait. Partly because instead of taking a tradional picture of her grandmother, Varga instead asked her grandmother to draw and spit on a a piece … Continue reading Research Task – Justine Varga – Maternal Line (P.123)
Where does that leave the photographer? As storyteller or history writer? Do you tend towards fact or fiction? How could you blend your approach? Where is your departure from wanting/needing to depict reality I think of myself in photographic terms … Continue reading Research task – storyteller or history writer?
Can you think of some examples from your own experience, or of someone you know, where there was a clash of identity? What happened and can you see how fluctuating notions of identity are still potentially problematic? What does it mean for you, to be yourself? Following the EU referendum in 2016 I spent six months feeling angry about the result and in order to do some practical to help me deal with my frustration I applied for an Irish passport. Since receiving it I use it in preference to my UK passport and whilst I do necessarily think of … Continue reading Research task – Identity (P.21)
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