Majesty, 2006 Tacita Dean describes her process as ‘finding a thread and following it’. She started by taking old postcards and painting out the backgrounds to emphasise the trees, which inspired her to create a series of larger photographs of the oldest trees in Britain. Majesty is one of those works- a photographic print on three…
Month: January 2025
Acorn Reliquary
Following on from the theme of ‘nature as religion’, I was interested in the way that objects are handled in religious contexts as containers of the divine, and I wanted to gather some natural objects and elevate them in a similar way. I chose to use an acorn because of its connection with the Major…
AI Image Creation
I had the opportunity to explore two different AI image creation platforms. There were a few different ways to create the image; I could input a text prompt, input an image to be altered, or I could ‘work collaboratively’ with the AI. We used two platforms – Playground, https://playground.com/ and Leonardo AI https://app.leonardo.ai/ . I found…
Bharti Kher
Bharti Kher is a UK artist. She studied painting at Newcastle Polytechnic before moving to New Delhi and developing an interest in sculpture. She talks about using her experience as an outsider to inform her art practice that includes a diverse range of materials, styles and themes. She allows the materials to inspire her work…
Printmaking Techniques – Monoprinting
Monoprinting is a technique that creates single, one-off images. Ink is applied to a plate and then an image is transferred to the paper using a variety of methods such as drawing, stenciling and applying objects and a wide variety of effects can be achieved. I created the below monoprints using some foliage. Ink or…
The Making of Frescoes
Scrovegni Chapel, Padua A fresco is essentially a painting created on a wall. They have been used from ancient Egypt and Rome up until modern day, and were popular during the renaissance before panels or wallpaper were used. The advantage of fresco painting was that large areas could be covered quickly and relatively cheaply. The…
Anna Collette Hunt
Anna Collette Hunt is a ceramicist living and working in Nottingham. She attended the FdA course at Nottingham College before completing her studies at Nottingham Trent University. While participating in the Nottingham Castle project, she learnt of the Open Exhibition that takes place yearly at Nottingham Castle, decided to enter it and won a prize….