“Maps are embedded in a history they help construct” “every view is but one perspective on the common scene” – Denis Wood, The Power of Maps Our experiences colour our perspectives- how objective are the maps we have created, and how do they change with different purposes and viewpoints? How have maps evolved with us,…
Month: November 2024
City exploration
Our Walking the City brief challenges us to explore the city through the act of walking. We aim to increase our understanding of the urban landscape through immersing ourselves in it. To start out, we walked as a group through the city. I took photographs of sights that interested me whilst thinking about how I…
Preparing work for exhibition
One of my paintings was selected for the upcoming ‘Open: The People’s Exhibition’ at Leicester Museum so I have taken it to be re-framed. When I previously exhibited it in Melbourne, I felt that the frame was too neutral, and the work got lost amongst the others. In order for it to stand out amongst…
Colour processing at Make It Easy Lab
Since I have been searching for a facility where I can process my colour photographs, I visited Make It Easy Lab and had a chat with Alice about what services they offer and how it all works. I booked in to hire the colour darkroom, and the Lab would process my negatives for me in…
Routes
These are finished images I created in the darkroom and intend to present as part of my project. Since they are slightly different media, I want to present them in a way that unifies them, perhaps in a video/ slide show format. I hope that the theme of ‘routes’ will be conveyed, and that viewers…
Darkroom Processing
The black and white darkroom facility Today I had a morning in the darkroom where I printed two photographs from my previously developed negatives. The first photograph I printed was an image of a street in the fog, so it was quite difficult to decide on the appropriate tonal values that the print should have. As…
Blast Theory
Blast Theory are a group that create interactive art. Formed in 1991 by artists of different disciplines, they create art that sits between club culture, theatre and live music (though their work is different to theatre in that the artist directly engages with the audience). Their work often responds to areas of popular culture such…
German Expressionists in Leicester
To supplement my reading about the Modernists I found it interesting the visit the German Expressionist collection at Leicester Museum and Art Gallery. The collection was founded in 1944 and documents the journey from Impressionism through to Expressionism and the first world war. The exhibition aims to provide fresh insight into the work and explores…
Alison Lloyd – Contouring
Alison Lloyd, Ramsey Moor, Derbyshire, 11 January 2020 In contrast to the straight line walking of Simon Faithfull’s ‘0°00 Navigation’, Alison Lloyd practiced a method of consciously walking the contours of a landscape. In her own words: “the term ‘contouring’ has become a verb that denotes my primary method of practising walking art. Contouring reflects…
Making Contact Sheets
A contact sheet of my developed negatives Not all of my negatives came out well but I took the opportunity to make contact sheets so I could have a convenient way of viewing them and deciding which to develop. It’ll also help me assess my process and make choices for the next set.Looking at them on…