As you continue to develop your chronologies and portfolio of failure, we’ll explore content supporting U5’s submission. This Wednesday, 23 Oct., we’ll explore how to communicate our practice. You need to complete a brief task for this session: writing a 250-word statement about your practice. You can check the prompts in Moodle here: https://moodle.arts.ac.uk/mod/book/view.php?id=1331784&chapterid=102676. We’ll use this as a base for some exercises.
- What are your art practice’s key ideas, issues, struggles, and goals?
- What is the thematic focus of your work (e.g. goal, purpose, intention, exploration)?
- What is the content of your work (e.g. themes, ideas, subject matter)?
- What influences your work (e.g. cultural, historical, theoretical, art historical, personal, biographical, etc.)?
- What form does your practice take (e.g. materials, processes, tradition of work such as abstract, figurative, etc.)?
- Describe your process and what the work looks/sounds/feels like.
I’m an animator, illustrator, and oil painter from Cyprus, and my work is all about reflecting my own experiences and sense of self. I draw a lot from my upbringing and my culture, letting that influence how I approach the canvas or any other medium. There’s no big agenda behind what I do—just a focus on improving my craft and allowing myself to create more freely, kind of like when you’re a kid and you make art just because it feels good.
A recurring theme in my work is the sense of community between women. This comes from my love for how Cypriot culture emphasizes strong female relationships, something that’s always been a part of my life.
I mostly work with oil paint, though I sometimes use illustration or animation to communicate my ideas. My work tends to focus on shadow, light, and form—letting these elements tell the story without needing to spell it all out. At the end of the day, my goal is to let whatever I represent as a person come through in my work naturally.
This is a reminder that we’ll meet at 12:00 for Open Studio to share highlights from our Fall Festival of Failure. I’ll kick off with my own lessons from failure and my little pushes. I look forward to seeing you on Wednesday, and I wish you a great start to your week!
talk by head of CSM, Rathna Ramanathan. https://www.youtube.com/live/n31T7jUzHUs – ask yourself how your Unit 5 submission embodies your situated and specific cultural context while also considering how it might resonate in other places/contexts?
FALL FESTIVAL OF FAILURE
MARSHA’S EXAMPLE:
Mine lmao
NOTES FROM MEETING WITH PAUL;