Table of Contents Reflections On Greenbergian Painting and my Practice Greenberg says what makes painting unique is flatness, but then we bring in drawing and so painting isn’t unique anymore. …
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Project 6: Abstraction
Table of Contents Reflections As a painter, and a viewer, pure abstraction doesn’t appeal to me. My mind anchors heavily in the real, and the more abstract something becomes the…
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Project 5: Contemporary Landscape
Table of Contents Reflections I’ve added to this project and page, following further explorations after submission. Landscape painting pulls at me as something I want to do but my motivation…
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Project 4: Redaction
Contents Reflections Research Exercises Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Personal Practice Rome Workshop Critical Review Planning Reflections On Opportunity, falling behind and catching up My spring was consumed by…
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Project 3: Colour and Tone
Contents Reflections Reading Exercises Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Personal Practice Naming and other Musings Another Theseus, again. Today Book of Paintings Returning to Odalisque Technical Diversions Reflections More…
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Project 2: The Object of Painting
Contents Reflections Gallerist Visit Reading Other Research Tasks Critical Review Notes Exercises Personal Practice Reflections I’ll admit that I’ve never really spent much time considering assemblage vs combine vs ready-made. …
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Project 1: Pictures
Contents Reflections Applied Reflections On Worlding Reading Other Research Tasks Exercises Personal Practice Reflections First, there is a sentence that keeps coming unbidden to my mind as I go through…
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Critical Review notes
Summary As is my typical in most things, I hate drafts so delivered something quite far along for my prior submission on my critical review. A weird form of perfectionism,…
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Final Theme: Rehash, Recycle, Return, Revisit
As the title suggests, in this final theme I returned to each of the themes I had already visited, and pushed myself. In each I was thinking about how to…
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Critical Review Research and Notes
Table of Contents Final Reflection My tutor gave me two pieces of feedback after reading through my “scratchpad” notes (below): I am prone to Ambition and targeting something far bigger…
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