September ’23 saw the Masters Degree Show take palce at the Wolverhampton Art Gallery, showcasing the work of the graduating students from the Wolverhampton School Of Art. It was great.
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This summer, I as selected to exhibit some of my work at the wonderful Shrewsbury Arts Trail, alongside some of the world’s greatest artists.
Today was the hand in deadline, with the digital stuff submitted on Friday I had only the physical works to submit in person. Also a quick drone mission on someone in the art school’s behalf. Topped off with a film dev in the bathroom..
My second year as a part time Level 4 (first year) student is coming to an end and all my work will soon be submitted. What have I learnt this year ? This quick overview lets you know how I’ve benefitted from being back at school..
This academic year I’ve been working on a project that involves manipulation and disruption of images. This post details where I started from and all the stars that aligned in order for me to produce something I was happy with.
I’d love to be Batman, fighting injustice in the world, but it’s not going to happen. Instead I’ll stand up for the rights of photographers who are told incorrect information regularly. No police involved this time.
A day trip to London for a Street Art exhibition and a wander around Battersea. All whilst making images on my camera that might come in handy to illustrate my whereabouts..
Time for my last Darkroom Session of the academic year. Some pictures of Birmingham and Blists Hill were made, after some trouble.
Alice asked us to consider display strategies for photographs and I looked back at the exhibitions I’ve visited this academic year.
Find out which one was the weirdest..
What started off as a bit of nostalgia dn reminiscing about school days turned into research about prefab houses and then full circle to find out some family history long before my school days.
Student competition for Ilford? Don’t mind if I do. See how I get on with creating some prints on Ilford paper from Ilford film..
Writing for a Student newspaper? Why would I spend time doing this? What would I even submit? Find out how I got involved, what I did and why I think it’s a great thing to have done.
For a book binding workshop I designed and printed a zine of images from University Of Leeds campus. Printed on Riso printer, why did I expend this much effort?
This Friday was a busy one, an early appointment in the Print Support Hub with Jim to finish my Riso Prints followed by a Progress Review with Alice about my progress thus far.
This week we were to discuss Artists who use their body in their work, until I had to leave to go to the hospital to be with my very sick father.
With a book binding workshop in a few weeks I set out to create something that I can bind together and result in something that I might be able to use.
Tuesday afternoon was a dark room kind of afternoon. With the tutor being off poorly I dived into the red lighted room to create some prints.
Del Loewenthal is a psychologist who developed an approach to photography that categorises images into four distinct categories depending on who has the power in the relationship and who benefits from the production of the image.
As an individual task ahead of next week we were asked to construct our own Ethical Window…..
Today’s seminar was to discuss Ethics in Photography and how it impacts all of photography including the photographer, subjects, publishers and wider world.
We were split into groups of two and tasked with discussing what we thought about a number of questions.
After the normal Tuesday afternoon at Uni had been completed it was time to head to the Print Rooms to find out what we’d be doing tonight. The answer, Drypoint Etching Intaglio.
This week we visited our sketchbooks and understand how to produce a successful example. We also had a very personal experience with Alice sharing her practice for her Degree and Masters.
A day in January to go to Leeds for a Brutalist Architecture exhibition about University Campuses and then a jaunt around the impressive architecture that is Leeds Uni campus. Using Digital, Film and Drone cameras.
This week saw the second half of the Riso learning and a use of Gibbs’ reflective cycle to analyse how we got on with the Riso Printing sessions.
This week was packed, with some Research for year long project, reviewing our feedback from Semester 1, Riso Printing (next post) and a group crit that took up a long time but yielded some great information.
At the end of last year, Alice gave us a task to create an A3 size board containing references, text, quotes and examples of images that we were interested in related to our year-long project.
My year long project so far has been a proper mixed bag, some print destruction, some negative distressing, some architecture, some portraiture so I put three boards together using my computer and PowerPoint along with the graphics table so I could scrawl directly onto the digital page.