Again, I was very relieved to receive such positive feedback for this assignment. My tutor made some constructive comments from which I have gained the following insight into how I could progress from now onward:
Continue to keep a sketchbook – use a small one to carry with me at all times and add items of interest as well as small sketches and notes.
Research more sophisticated academic sources. Try UCA ebooks.
Make influences and intent more explicit in my work. Why yoga? Why 1920s influence? What are the emerging themes around this and other works?
Review knowledge on referencing rules for Harvard refs – particularly within the text.
Invest in a copy of “How To Write About Contemporary Art” by Gilda Williams. READ it.
Look at the following artists:
Peter Wray
Gary Hume
Dale Devereux Barker
Pandora Johnson
Notes on next assignment:
Less is more with collagraph printmaking. Avoid an inky mess by leaving some areas of the plates blank.
NB. I have since started to carry an A6 sketchbook which is all but full of notes, photos and sketches relating to projects and random ideas. This is together with the larger, square kraft paper sketchbook which I usually keep and send with my assignments – although I do not always prepare sketches before launching into a project ( see Assignment 4 “Control” – to be submitted). Some of my pieces are more spontaneous in nature than others.
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