MA3: Resolution and Exhibition Margins and Marginalisation: The Modern Muse 04.04.20 This the session today, I want to look and a reversal of my layers. In my practice, I usually begin with the calico, then priming, gridding, drawings and then letters. In a previous discussion with Neil, he asked 'What would happen if you... Continue Reading →
MA3: Resolution and Exhibition Margins and Marginalisation: The Modern Muse 04.03.20 Continuing the discussion on the use of layering and text, I came across the artist Rasheed Araeen, in my book British Black Art: Debates on Western Art History by Sophie Orlando. The artist and writer Rasheed Araeen introduces his discussion on his positioning in... Continue Reading →
MA3: Resolution and Exhibition Margins and Marginalisation: The Modern Muse 10.02.20 I wanted to explore the use of text in my work. Could this exploration help to direct the audience in identifying the image? Would it dictate the conversation? Would it tell the audience what they needed to know, or who it identify what... Continue Reading →
MA3: Resolution and Exhibition Margins and Marginalisation: The Modern Muse 07.02.20 Erased and forgotten? I sometimes feel, the worst thing I feel could happen in life is to be forgotten, brushed aside or replaced. Your name removed from the minds of those who should remember you. Your friends, your family and the generations to... Continue Reading →
MA3: Resolution and exhibition 23.09.19 Margins and marginalisation: Modern Muses Over the summer of 2019, our collective art group called Unguarded exhibited at LOFT at a space in Croydon, South London. Our aim, as a collective, was to; Exhibit our own work on our terms with our own parameters. Encourage other semi-professional artists to... Continue Reading →
MA2: Testing practice Intersections and articulations 18.04.19 Kara Walker, an artist, the visual ethnographer that documents and response to her history, culture and traditions, created the sculptural piece, "A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby". I have in a previous journal post discussed her work in a response to a tutorial earlier in the year.... Continue Reading →
MA2 Studio practice Testing your boundaries: Margins and Marginalisation 11.03.19 The journey: Breaking the boundaries My school is owned by a national company that supplies 90% of the wealth to the country. This is an impressive figure seeing as in 2011, the company brought in over *** billion US dollars into the country. My students,... Continue Reading →
MA2 Studio practice Testing your boundaries: Margins and Marginalisation 04.03.19 Planning Plan C Here in this country, as in many places I assume, the processes can be slow, and this is a fact in my case with this exhibition project at the main offices of my company. The plans were to visit the area and... Continue Reading →
MA2 Studio practice Contextual Studies Individual tutorial with Kimberley Foster 04.03.19  I have more to say... Can I explore the creative difference between the Black British female artist from the Caribbean versus from the African continent? And now this leads to a discussion about an authentic specific experience and I think in this subject... Continue Reading →
MA2 Studio practice. Margins and marginalisation: Art and the black perspective. 16.02.19 I wanted to explore texture in my studio practice this month. I am already working on unrefined calico, a cotton-based canvas and priming it with black acrylic and white gesso. I scored my grid lines into the paper so that it could transfer... Continue Reading →
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