The artist Penelope Umbrico is a prolific practitioner with a large catalogue of work presented on her site. Her use of appropriation of other peoples images for me is one of the things that stands out about her work. Displayed below in figure 1 is a collection of sunset images Read more…
Roger Newton is an artist whose work clearly resonates with me, with his production of large non-representational abstract images and utilisation of pinhole cameras. He is well known for creating non-glass lenses to refract and reflect light to manipulate his images. Newton, in his artist statement, says that “by designing Read more…
Or enter the academy. Informed contexts lead one to the critical review of practice. Part of the Critical review is the position of your practice. In this, I have understood that my body of work would not sit in a zine or book as that would never do justice to Read more…
One aspect that is troubling is the Intent. Following the video presentation and the comments I feel that this is one area that I need to direct effort into for the Critical Review of Practice. I feel that the current intent is misunderstood and could not be delivered as an Read more…
Wolfgang Tillmans makes a strong point when it comes to abstraction “The initial question everybody asks when confronted with a photograph is who is it, when was it made, how is it made, and when you’re confronted with a painting you don’t ask that. I mean, why can’t it be Read more…
Multiple exposure is one technique of many used in abstract photography. Multiple exposures are used in many other practices for many types of aesthetics so is not exclusive. When it comes to multiple exposures used in abstraction it can be used to combine images to create the whole or be Read more…
Dieter Roth, engaged with the Fluxes movement and produced many notable works. The Fluxes movement included many prominent individual artists, and I feel was a direct revival of the Dada period under a new name. The similarity is very exacting. Roth distanced himself from the Fluxes group as not to Read more…
Originals? YouTube best, watching a Todd Hido lecture and the thought of the original came to me. Several years ago I sold an artists work in a cafe that I managed. One day a lady wanted to buy the original of the print. Explaining to the lady that the images Read more…
B** P***** Hi Roydon, I find your project fascinating! With your intent – maybe you could talk about what led you to change the images once you took them? Maybe you could talk about the colours you use and why you choose them? Also I think it would be interesting Read more…
Production of a 10 min video to be peer-reviewed. This simple task is the draft of the Critical Review of Practice that has to be produced. Having listened to the work I have produced and revisited the learning outcomes for the CRoP I feel that I have gone over on Read more…