Notes and response to ‘I Give Everything Away’ The 220 drawings represented in this video are an extraordinary insight into Louise Bourgeois. The work is incredibly open and vulnerable which I think is a good introduction to the artist’s work. Not having previously been aware of Louise Bourgeois’s work, I was struck with the cathartic…
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The Last Thing I Said to You Is Don’t Leave Me Here
The first section of coursework gave me a new perspective on the above piece of work, ‘The Last Thing I said to You Is Don’t Leave Me Here’ by Tracey Emin. This piece of work has always interested me but realising that part of it can be termed as a readymade has helped me view…
Response to Damien Hirst’s ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’, Vanitas and Still Life
First reactions to ‘The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living’ by Damien Hirst (image below) Fascination: from a biological point of view this shark is fascinating. For obvious reasons few of us have seen these fearsome predators in real life and seeing it suspended here jaws open ready to devour you…
Gaia by Luke Jerram
I visited the installation ‘Gaia’ by Luke Jerram in Liverpool cathedral on Saturday 1st June. Gaia is a glowing sphere displaying detailed imagery provided by NASA of the earth’s surface as seen from space. It is suspended from the cathedral’s high ceiling opposite one of the cathedral’s brightly coloured stained glass windows and greets you…
My attempt at a Martha Rosler photo collage
Inspired by an interview of Martha Rosler I read on the Tate website, I have embarked on a project to create a similar photo collage myself, based on the space race (in part as it is nearly the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon). This is my attempt to understand Martha Rosler’s drive…
Book Review: When the Dogs Don’t Bark
Some time ago in work I started a book club to encourage myself and others not only to read more regularly but to read a wider variety of books. As there is a literature section in my course and what I read influences my mood and interests I thought I would write about any books…
Project 1: What is art? – Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain
Exercise 1: Initial observation and reactions to Duchamp’s Fountain On observing the Fountain I feel quite ambivalent about it; I feel bored by its appearance and curious about its intent. It reminds me of a Beluga Whale or an open mouth. I find it curious as, being female, I don’t get to see urinals so…
Notes on Grayson Perry’s Reith Lecture – Playing to the Gallery: Episode 1, Democracy has bad taste
Note on the Lecturer: The lecturer Grayson Perry is renowned for his vases and plates which are classically beautiful but have a subversive ‘spikey’ message and also for often dressing as his alter ego Claire. He won the Turner Prize 2003 and is an observer of the social scene who mocks and enlivens to explain…
Martha Rosler
Work that still resonates today Cleaning the Drapes (From the series ‘House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home’ c. 1967-7) Image ‘Cleaning the Drapes’ [accessed27/04/2019]: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/150123 This effecting image depicts a 1960s housewife vacuuming gold, floral curtains collaged over a monochrome photo of soldiers (as if a still from the news). She pulls back the curtain…
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