It’s 17th January now. I’ll put my images and their states of completion here, from printing onwards. Composites Cubist Images ICM Images I think I am on schedule. I’d like to have 20 mounted images by the weekend, so I just have to mount those cubist images. I’m still reading, creating and thinking too. I… Continue reading PREPARING FOR THE RIVERSIDE THEATRE EXHIBITION part 2
Author: Dave
A retired research scientist, a photographer and a Fine Art student
Melting Pot update
I decided to check in with the Artcetera gallery in case I missed the call for their spring exhibition Hi David, No dates have been set yet. I’ll give you a shout when I have more information. Kind regards Olivier Olivier Martin Chairperson ArtCetera Studio 43 b Rosemary Street BT 1 1QB Mail : olivier@artceterastudio.com Tel… Continue reading Melting Pot update
PRIME, delivered my submissions
Today I took my 3 submissions for the PRIME exhibition down to Arts Care in Belfast. There is one for each of my categories, ICM, Composite Memories and Cubism. If they aren’t chosen, I can put them into the Riverside exhibition. I used the cheap frames from B&M (£8.99) as they had D-rings attached to… Continue reading PRIME, delivered my submissions
Preparing for the Riverside Theatre exhibition
The exhibition doesn’t take place until the beginning of March, and Module 3 of the MA starts towards the middle of February, so I have been using December to check out frames (still doing that, although I have around 30 from my last exhibition), collect paper and ink, and tidy up my working area. My… Continue reading Preparing for the Riverside Theatre exhibition
Bookends
‘Lessons’ and ‘The Sense of an Ending’ are the two books that bookended the second module, MA1.2, of the MA for me. Both gave insights on the fragility of memory and expressed it in different ways. The quote I first picked from ‘Lessons’, reading it on the train on the journey home from Berlin in… Continue reading Bookends
Prime
Sometimes I get excited by the theme of an exhibition or a call for papers, but then I see it’s restricted to artists under 25 or otherwise age restricted. Fair enough, they do need a leg up, but maybe the competition could be divided into separate categories. This time however, the restriction was in my… Continue reading Prime
‘The Sense of an Ending’
In the last week of Module 1.2 the film of this book was on TV. I’d seen it before, but missed the beginning, and anyway, I needed a break from writing those submissions! I have always liked Julian Barnes’ writing style, so I watched the film again. As I watched it, I saw so many… Continue reading ‘The Sense of an Ending’
Art and its Audience
Marcel Duchamp stated in a lecture in 1957, “The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.” (Duchamp, 1975) p. 138–140. Clearly he considered the art to… Continue reading Art and its Audience
Memory and Time
I had been musing about memory before this degree and thinking quite a bit about it while doing my practice since then. I started reading about it only a few weeks ago, and guess what, lots of other have been having similar thoughts, and much deeper, for a long time. In 1690 John Locke is… Continue reading Memory and Time
Reaching my audience
My previous photography exhibitions have all been static, framed prints hanging on walls around the foyer of the local theatre or in the gallery or exhibition space of a local arts centre. Can I find other ways of engaging the audience? Maybe online videos, to which I give links or QR codes from descriptions on… Continue reading Reaching my audience