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Category: 2.1 Idea Lab

Critical Review notes

Posted on 2025-10-212025-10-21

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

Posted on 2025-09-032026-01-18

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

Posted on 2025-07-122025-09-03

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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Narrative and the Intimate II: Strange Intimacies

Posted on 2025-05-092026-01-18

Prior work on this theme is collected here A shirtless man sits, facing away from us, though we can see the side of his face. A counter is in the…

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Narrative and the Intimate |

Posted on 2025-04-202026-01-18

Table of Contents Overview & Thoughts Story comes easily and quickly to me. Always has, and hopefully always will. I began my art journey a decade ago, learning how to…

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IdeaLab: Looking at Artists II

Posted on 2025-04-202026-01-18

Quick Links George Rorris When I was selecting workshops, I was drawn to George Rorris’ for a number of reasons: At the time, I didn’t know too much about him…

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Digital Territories II

Posted on 2025-04-052025-04-07

You can find foundational reading, research and exercises for this theme here The Dreams of Electric Sheep, or Digital Odalisque I found myself returning over and over again to the…

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Digital Territories I

Posted on 2025-02-242026-01-18

Table of Contents Summary and Reflection Larger versions of my paintings are under Exercises, but I reference them here to aid the summary. Changes since prior submission to my tutor:…

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Identity and the Body II

Posted on 2025-01-112026-01-18

My work on the first theme doesn’t split nicely into the first and second parts. It was a continuous process of creativity, and reading, that spanned a period coinciding with…

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IdeaLab: Looking at Artists I

Posted on 2025-01-112025-01-12

I’ve chosen artists, here, whose works I had an immediate response to based on what I could find online. I’ve added other artists mentioned in conversations with students and tutors,…

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