tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-91337445011836818242024-03-19T04:48:27.772+00:00Islington Mill Art AcademyIslington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comBlogger128125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-10592010373432559042019-02-06T21:24:00.001+00:002019-02-06T21:47:37.390+00:00FOREST SCHOOL (OCTOBER 2018)<br />
Hello from the IMMA class of 2019!<br />
We will be documenting our journey as a collaborative group throughout 2019.<br />
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We'd like to look back to one of our first workshops as a group, when we visited Platt Fields Park for a forest school workshop kindly organised by IMAA member Ruby Unsworth.<br />
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We visited the Forest School as part of an exploration into the outdoors, and as an attempt to distance ourselves from the confines of the studio.<br />
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The forest school was ran by Colin Unsworth, an educator who is interested in alternative schools and the possibilities of outdoor learning. Forest schools are growing in popularity, especially in Scandinavia. A recent article from the Guardian mentions the benefits of forest schools on younger children's education<span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">"Educators and policymakers across </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">the </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">political spectrum are increasingly </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">convinced </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">by the growing heft of evidence </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">about the </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">exponentially positive impact of </span><span style="color: #121212; font-family: "guardian text egyptian web" , "georgia" , serif;">learning outdoors"</span><br />
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There are various mushroom species and some varieties have healing properties, and the differences between edible and poisonous species. It felt very freeing to be outdoors, and connecting with nature.<br />
Colin educated us on the benefits of forgaged fruits, including this wonderful blackberry jam<br />
and we the collected wild mushrooms from treetops, including a variety that we later fried in coconut oil and ate.<br />
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<br />Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-8743006162445611072017-05-19T11:57:00.000+01:002018-07-24T10:41:55.807+01:00Watch this space.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11107563208358144424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-82317431145445399292017-04-12T12:20:00.000+01:002018-07-24T10:50:25.145+01:00Messing with mono print - making session<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Had a great session messing about with mono prints last night.</span></span><br />
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Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-24943322331442271132017-03-08T20:36:00.000+00:002017-05-17T21:40:52.014+01:00A useful critque<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">At the Art Academy last night I presented work I am preparing for an exhibition at Ordsall Hall in June. This was the first time I had shown this work to anyone and it was a really useful experience. The exhibition "The Basque children in Salford and Eccles" is my response to a story I discovered about a group of Basque children who came to Salford in 1937 as evacuees from the Spanish Civil War.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My response has been influenced considerably by the Art Academy Regent's Warehouse Residency which I took part in during 2015, where I was reunited with my childhood toys on the day the little refugee boy's body was found on the beach. My talky walkie doll who was wrapped in a plastic bag for protection disturbed a number of people. This in itself is becoming a body of work that I have been exploring through previous crits (including <a href="http://islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/joint-islington-mill-and-imaa-crit-10th.html" target="_blank">10th November 2015 </a>and </span><a href="http://islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/some-thoughts-from-presenting-artists.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">17th March 2016</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> ).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The crit was really powerful because it helped me see that this project is pulling together the ideas I have had previously. That there are clear links to previous projects and experiments such as a repetition of colour (that may or not be a link to childhood and growing up), repetition of symbolic shapes, similarity between the lines I create in mono print and stitch.The theme of wearing out to represent transience was also discussed and I was introduced by Niki to the concept of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi" target="_blank">Yabi Sabi</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A really useful suggestion that came out of the crit was for me to try hanging the pieces in the gallery at the Mill to see what they looked like out of the studio environment.</span></span>Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-62306482730196325002017-02-14T23:58:00.000+00:002017-05-21T23:59:33.263+01:00Hepworth visit and some questions about curating<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The Art Academy took a trip to the Hepworth to see the <a href="http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/news/the-hepworth-wakefield-announces-the-four-shortlisted-artists-and-judging-panel-for-the-uk-s-first-prize-for-sculpture/" target="_blank">Hepworth Prize for Sculptur</a>e 2017.<br />
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Phyllida Barlow's impressive work was a favourite, and evoked strong feelings. Helen Marten's carefully considered sculptures raised issues around curating, the buying and transportation of sculptural works comprised of many pieces.<br />
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Hepworth's maquettes were fascinating, as was the building itself.<br />
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And as with other Art Academy visits, we talked and plotted future collaborations.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11107563208358144424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-44584111201664780052017-01-28T11:19:00.000+00:002017-05-18T09:49:57.529+01:00January 2017<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At our first meeting of the year we set our dates, had a natter about the future and had a short critque for Sara who presented some of the motion graphics she is creating for a commission for a philosophy project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">On the 14th January a few of us went to HOME, where Maurice Carlin, one of our founder members was presenting the first prints he has made as part of his<a href="http://www.islingtonmill.com/about-us/maurice-carlin-temporary-custodians-of-islington-mill-2018-2028/" target="_blank"> Temporary Custodians Project</a> and the raise the Roof fund raising for the Mill. It was a great event.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Over Christmas Art academy members Claire, Lisa and Andrew moved into a studio at the Mill. On 17th Januray, Morry, who is currently <a href="https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/a-qa-with-maurice-carlin-clore-visual-artist-fellow" target="_blank">the first-ever Clore Visual Artist Fellow</a></span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> brought a group of his Clore Fellows to meet the Art Academy in the studio. Claire, Rika and Lisa were joined by Niki, and we had an interesting discussion about the academy and our own practice.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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‘Doremifasolasido’ is an annual group residency that invites emerging artists from around the country to Cumbria to forge links between artists and arts organisations working in urban and rural settings. Jackie Haynes and Lisa Risbec will be attending from the Art Academy and are really looking forward to being involved. Here's some more info on the residency.<br />
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"The first residency took place in October 2015 at the <a href="https://merzbarnlangdale.wordpress.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Merz Barn</a>, bringing together visual artists to explore the artistic legacy of the Merz Barn and Kurt Schwitters in Britain, as discussed in ‘Housing Merz in the 21st Century’ at Tate Britain, November 2014. This year (2016) we are delighted to be hosted by <a href="http://www.florencemine.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-wrap: break-word;">Florence Arts Centre</a>. During the week-long residency. <a href="https://doremiresidency.wordpress.com/2016-2/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-wrap: break-word;">participating artists </a>will create work, from sculpture to performance and film, in response to the Florence Mine site culminating in a weekend of public events, including an exhibition spoken word, screenings and artist critiques. Organisers: <a href="http://jocelynmcgregor.com/" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Jocelyn McGregor</a>, <a href="http://www.louis-jack.com/home" style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: inherit; color: #404040; text-decoration: none; transition: 0.2s; word-wrap: break-word;" target="_blank">Louis-Jack Horton-Stephens</a> and Stephanie Farmer"</div>
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We'd love for you to join us on the opening weekend, info on the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/120556318373598/" target="_blank">Facebook event</a> or the <a href="https://doremiresidency.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Website</a>.</div>
Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-70458648169272440262016-05-09T13:57:00.000+01:002016-07-06T14:00:04.144+01:00Some thoughts about an Open Crit<div style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px; line-height: 18.176px;">
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Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-63584108175288745232016-04-26T15:19:00.000+01:002016-04-26T15:19:11.650+01:00OPEN CRIT // Lorna Mollart & Steve Hockett<br />
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Had a brilliant meeting at the Art Academy today, working on
planning, goal setting - focus, some very interesting ideas,*
incredible inspiration, and a clear vision, focus and -<br />
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loads of stuff for the film, the proposal, the approach -
particularly looking at the first year, the year ahead (now) where I
am now, what I want to do over the next 3, 6, 12 months, and
beyond.<br />
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Loads of brilliant ideas - all to be digested, with
cake, over the next few days and weeks. A great (visionary) starting
point, or slogan, project, motto, or approach - for year one. -
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I'll post more ideas as they form, settle, digest and
process.<br />
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A massive thanks to Morry - for all the wonderful
vision, focus, inspiration and ideas, to Lisa, for organising, and to
everyone there for a great event, loads of ideas and inspiration.
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Here's <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8wWdSLdDZuVUWYwblY5YWQ1U0E/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">the document</a> we worked from if any of you fancy having a go yourselves! </span></h3>
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Sara Nesteruk presented a proposal for her PHD project...<br />
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Project Proposal - presentation of proposal in progress, themes, ideas - approaches, production. Documentation, physicality and form of the final object.<br />
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Documentation, presentation -<br />
performance, and the performative aspects to the work - how and - where (?) -<br />
how, it will, and can be received.<br />
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Will the reciever, or audience, know about the production - methods, process, and ideas, and how?<br />
A document that requires gentle care and handling - gentable.<br />
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- Din - German font used for road signage. A display font that is excellent, works brilliant[ly] at distance.<br />
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Urgency - an approach. Methods of interviewing. Communities, information, accessing people, archives, using drawing, and motion graphics to help.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Recipes blog here - <a href="http://recipesforbakingbread.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://recipesforbakingbread.blogspot.co.uk/</a></span>Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-14043177188324134392016-03-17T17:20:00.002+00:002016-03-17T17:21:26.526+00:00Our next open crit and potluck dinner - Wednesday 30th March<div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Potluck from 6pm in the first floor common room space at Islington Mill. Please bring a dish to share, can be home-cooked or
shop bought (home cooked is nicer!) Plus BYOB. This will be followed by presentations in the gallery space from <a href="http://www.mauricecarlin.com/" target="_blank">Maurice Carlin</a> who will
present recent work and Jenny Walden who will give a short talk on <b>'the
hidden curriculum' within fine art education</b>;</span></span></span></div>
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for a 'hidden curriculum' has arisen because in some ways fine art
specifically may be less understood or less easily accommodated by the
prevailing 'norms' of a university as a whole. 'Fine Art' is less easily
slotted into discourses about 'employability' or 'instrumental'
university education and the student as 'consumer'.<br /><br />My paper
looks at these issues very much from the point of view of art education
happening 'somewhere else', other than the university. Many college and
university students participate in alternative spaces for art
education, along side artists who may not have trodden the path of the
fine art 'degree' in addition to their degree studies. IMAA being one
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Take a look at some of our <a href="http://islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/some-thoughts-from-presenting-artists.html" target="_blank">past posts</a> to see what the crits are all about - it;s a great way to meet others and get involved with the Art Academy. </span></span><br />
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our Open Crits, we have been experimenting with how we document the
discussion, through inviting those who have presented work to write
something about their experience of the crit, if and how they found it
useful, and what they intend to do as a result..</i><br />
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I have taken some time out from my usual routine with the intention to
progress my art work. Following a residency in the warehouse at the Mill
late last year my work is in a state of change and I am not sure
whether this is a development in my usual practice, just in a different
landscape or whether it is a fundamental change! I have been using the
crits at the mill to try to voice what my work is about and to test how
others respond. I find the crit process really difficult, but it is
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I showed a printed blanket with
multiple images of a doll from my childhood, curious to see what the
response would be. The overall response was that it was unnerving,
creepy, angry and political. Apart from the political aspect - which I
was a little surprised by - this was the response I expected, although I
would like to find a way to take the creepy/scary aspect away as I
don’t think that is what I am trying to say. Somehow, the work I
started in the warehouse, which was to sort through my childhood toys,
which make me feel safe and loved turned into a response to the refugee
crisis and this muddle was clearly evident in the questions people asked
and comments made. This wasn’t made as an exhibition piece, and is just
the first stage of making since the residency and the crit has
identified many elements I want to explore.</div>
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was the first time I've taken part in an art academy crit and although I
was nervous about it. I found it really useful. I'm preparing for an
interview so it was a nice way to get some feedback on my ideas and use
it as practice. I do normally work with other people and have studio
crits as I'm working but I haven't participated in something this formal
since university. I found it to be a very useful way to present work,
as it was interesting to hear the responses to the physical work and
also my reasonings and research as well as hearing different people's
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As I tend to work with quite abstract
forms, I normally allow the work to remain open and ambiguous when I
present it for exhibitions, usually relying on the titles of the work to
suggest the meaning. I enjoyed explaining in more detail and being
challenged on decisions I'd made whilst making the work. I have already
started the next phase of this work, using some of the questions asked
of me as a springboard for experimentation. It's still the early phase
of this project and I feel like it's got a way to go until I reach a
clearer conclusion, so participating in this crit has given me a more
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Our next open crit is Wednesday 30th March - more info <a href="http://islingtonmillartacademy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/03/our-next-open-crit-and-potluck-dinner.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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On Wednesday 24th Feb we have the first Islington Mill Art Academy Open Crit of the year. Potluck
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gallery with <a href="http://www.clairehignett.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Claire Hignett</b></a> and <a href="http://www.aliyahhussain.co.uk/" target="_blank"><b>Aliyah Hussain</b></a>.</div>
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collective The Volkov Commanders. Her work frequently observes topics
such as spirituality and space, creating
bold, exciting and humorous works through fabric and photography. <a href="http://www.aliyahhussain.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.aliyahhussain.co.uk/</a></div>
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<br />Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11107563208358144424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-62417687470606812522015-12-18T12:40:00.001+00:002015-12-18T12:40:52.344+00:00IMAA mentioned in The Guardian<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Islington Mill Art Academy have been mentioned in an article on liberating arts education featured in the Guardian's Cultural professionals network. Here's a link</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alternative Art education does seem to be becoming a very relevant subject again judging by the number of enquiries we keep getting! </span>Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-65387792901468857252015-11-23T19:51:00.002+00:002015-11-23T19:53:01.491+00:00End of residency open studios event<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poster design by Andrew Beswick, a member of the Art Academy.Lisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11107563208358144424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-63851231290407416842015-11-20T21:26:00.000+00:002015-11-30T16:02:58.259+00:00Joint Islington Mill and IMAA Crit 10th November 2015<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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but about to begin a 2 month residency, the crit served both as a good way to
take stock of where I'm at with my practice but also to open up a whole load of
new things to think about as well as some more practical solutions to how I'm
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARkwDtA3j8-bX8mKBxenV-R29aVGZdbt9TGM2WQEZRycnuIlF6_GanUhBqW5NZctQKJb9Qv-J0-rBa23hmU-pNSKTpbhhWoaq9stqdl-ZTyOupDAYSP-1UBuVXhBKIpxT2WYUZONTP71Q/s1600/IMG_7449.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhARkwDtA3j8-bX8mKBxenV-R29aVGZdbt9TGM2WQEZRycnuIlF6_GanUhBqW5NZctQKJb9Qv-J0-rBa23hmU-pNSKTpbhhWoaq9stqdl-ZTyOupDAYSP-1UBuVXhBKIpxT2WYUZONTP71Q/s400/IMG_7449.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">What is my Practice?</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">To get the existential bit out of the way first - I
think the group found it unclear what I was trying to get at with my work, if
it was purely formative or laden with meaning. I think being able to understand
and explain this is something which I really need to work on. It was also
interesting hearing it described as drawing, which I was trying to move away
from but I think I just had a very narrow definition of.</span></span></div>
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and a certain aesthetic to achieve in mind which has perhaps been a bit of a
limitation, restricting experimentation and process. I'd like to move towards
being more process led and less focused on a final outcome.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjMpu_AdXCPc8EwoQYPuNgtNFwZX_Llj6ggovzEIvoFfy2oBPsJ74lu4a-jsJmS9n7IpQH4qpbugVJjL5icnCxm8cdh3fDu3Gi-CttuSZyyeTVBCsZ2xPZzAAdS6lHAUVCN5pkwRGHjcX/s1600/IMG_7451.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjMpu_AdXCPc8EwoQYPuNgtNFwZX_Llj6ggovzEIvoFfy2oBPsJ74lu4a-jsJmS9n7IpQH4qpbugVJjL5icnCxm8cdh3fDu3Gi-CttuSZyyeTVBCsZ2xPZzAAdS6lHAUVCN5pkwRGHjcX/s400/IMG_7451.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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somewhere between well finished and raw but neither one or the other. I think
this is partly due to lack of consideration with the decisions I made with
hanging / framing etc. but also with cost being a factor. One practical
solution we discussed was to explore working on something small which could be
finished to a high level. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Space</span></b><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"> </span></span></div>
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solely to making art in has made it difficult to view and share my work. Some
ideas came up to get around this such as using the gallery space at the mill,
or finding other areas where I can create / hang / document and reflect.</span></span></div>
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able to speak to a group about my work in depth and be open to critical
feedback. After not really showing any work for a year or so it's easy to lose
context and end up in a bit of a bubble. The idea of just putting things out
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the IMAA warehouse residency since July and have deliberately chosen not to
work in my usual way with my usual textile tools, routines and processes, to
see whether my tools and processes dictate (and limit) what sort of artist I am.
I definitely have an ideas based practice, but with a strong making and process
element, so I wanted to explore the purely conceptual, to see whether the
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crit extremely difficult because I presented in a completely different way and
presented work that is part of my journey rather than completed. The crit
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3 pieces based on childhood toys that I was unexpectedly reunited with 20+
years ago, that have been waiting for me to do something with. The first was 3
bottles containing wash water from my childhood dressing up clothes, which just
happened to be in pastel colours. The second was a doll, which had been put in
a plastic bag to keep it clean while in the loft and a photo of the doll’s face
in the plastic bag with the plastic bag danger of suffocation label clearly visible.
I presented the doll and the bottles on two plinths made from cardboard boxes
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these were not intended to be part of the work, however their very presence and
that I had chosen to use them made them part of the work. Although frustrated
that the conversation had tuned to the plinths, this was a very important
learning point. Did they represent aspiration, was there a point to elevating
work on ramshackle DIY plinths to create an interesting tension? </span></span></div>
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washed water: In the first instance I did not explain what these were as I
wanted to test what an audience made of them. However I misjudged the title by
temporarily calling them “My childhood”. Reactions were to compare them to the
work of <a href="https://www.artsy.net/artist/pamela-rosenkranz" target="_blank">Pamela Rosenkranz</a>, who bottles Barbie flesh tones and to discuss my “attraction
to pastel cleanliness”. I found this really interesting as the colours were
random. It was quite a steep learning curve to discuss my work referencing
other artists and realising how the random can be seen as a choice and create
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photo: The doll has been stored in the same bag since it went into the loft
around 40 years ago so the bag is very dusty but the doll is clean. I was in two
minds whether I should even put her on display as I feel I have made no
intervention in the making (I am a maker!). Comments ranged from “Creepy”, to having an Alison Wonderland like quality. References were made to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Benjamin" target="_blank">Walter Benjamin</a> around overproduction, consumerism and being protected by “the dust of
history”.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">This is interesting as I am currently reading Walter Benjamin and my
textiles are about our desire to cling on to and define ourself by posessions and to attach our memories (histories)
to them. The comments about consumerism are also quite apposite, as I am personally
interested in this issue and also, having been born in the 1960's I am one of the
first generation of British children to have toys made from modern plastics and
to have been<a href="http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/article/1960s/" target="_blank"> actively marketed to through television</a>. I can still remember the
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The comment was made that it was difficult to access the work without me
talking about it, and yet in writing this I realise that all the comments made about
the work either relate to my intellectual interests, the way I think and view
the world, and/or the themes in my existing textiles. I may not be able to
articulate my practice clearly at the moment as it is undergoing a process of
transformation in how I make the art, but the crit has helped me realise I am a
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Hidden in the mountains of Western North Carolina, Black Mountain College (1933–1957) was an influential experiment in education that inspired and shaped twentieth century American art. Created as an experiment of “education in a democracy,” the central idea was that the creative arts and practical responsibilities </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">are equal in importance to the development of the intellect. The emphasis was that learning and living are intimately connected.<br /><br />FULLY AWAKE (2007) is the only feature-length documentary film exploring the college’s progressive pedagogy and radical approach to arts education. Highly democratic and faculty-owned, the school promoted educational of the whole person: head, heart, and hand. Practical responsibilities and the creative arts were viewed as equally important components to intellectual development. During WWII, Black Mountain College was a haven for refugee European artists such as Josef and Anni Albers who arrived from the Bauhaus in Germany. In the socially conservative 1940s and 50s, the college also became a refuge for the American avant–garde, (Franz Kline, John Cage, Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, Robert Creeley, Jacob Lawrence, Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and M.C. Richards). FULLY AWAKE explores how the confluence of this diverse community came together to create a unique educational model.</span>Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9133744501183681824.post-21459263275408642312015-08-24T21:32:00.000+01:002015-09-04T21:35:28.254+01:00<span style="color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">It's started...Jam! Been collecting berries from an abundant spot in the warehouse yard since the start of my summer residency with the Art Academy to turn into Trading Estate Jam.</span><br />
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Soundtrack: Jean-Claude Vannier - L'Enfant Assasin des Mouches. About a child who kills flies, this track is where the child traps the king fly in a giant pot of jam.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Owned by Peel Holdings, this space is soon to</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="color: #141823; display: inline; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> be developed on which is being contested widely by various groups, due to the existence of rare species and the lack of green space within the city centre. There is still time for alternative proposals to be put forward, ones which include affordable housing as well as development of the green space.<br /><br />My Pomona - <a href="http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mypomona.co.uk%2Fhome%2F&h=nAQHeGe_S&enc=AZN6Tuo4hUWF1rDbQe6jcK-Jqhb0U0kWvOPO-pZZ9XfqKJ5t402SROxnQXfW48S3Z04&s=1" rel="nofollow nofollow" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">http://www.mypomona.co.uk/<wbr></wbr><span class="word_break" style="display: inline-block;"></span>home/</a> was set up to collect artistic responses to the place and the Art Academy will be taking a trip down there to add our responses.<br /><br />This is going to be a fun session where we wander, explore and make, sharing ideas and tasks to help us to develop our practice.<br /><br />Meet at Islington Mill at 1pm to walk down with us, or meet there and find us (we'll be there at about 1.30). The site can be accessed from Cornbrook Metrolink station (just walk down the stairs and head left - you can enter through a gap in the railings)<br /><br />Bring any materials you usually work with, or just bring yourselves! Come prepared for the Manchester weather!<br /><br />© Image copyright Derek Harper and licensed for reuse under Creative Commons Licence.</span>Islington Mill Art Academyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05371801769325357227noreply@blogger.com