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….
Ancient landmarks closed off to walkers
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x7qg43v7o
Nottingham Castle Collection Initial Ideas
This mind map shows my initial ideas for the project. As you can see, a lot of the themes are related to nature since that is my current preoccupation. I like the idea of focusing on trees as a symbol of nature, and exploring the Japanese word ‘komorebi’ meaning ‘light filtered through trees’. I can…
Nottingham Castle Collection Brief and First Impressions
In this brief, we have the opportunity to respond to an art piece from the collection at Nottingham Castle, or to make work in response to the castle and grounds itself. Today, we visited the castle to meet Deborah Dean, Visual Arts Collections and Exhibitions Manager, and seek inspiration for the project. On my first…
Counterculture – Summative Evaluation
Responding to the Counterculture brief, I was interested in exploring the countercultural movement behind the right to roam, and the potential loss of our freedom to roam in the UK. As someone who grew up in a rural area, I acutely feel the impact of that loss, however I wanted viewers of all backgrounds to…
Photographing the city
This time, I set out with the intent to find and photograph ‘unseen’ areas of the city. I am interested in the difference between the pockets of quiet and the commotion of the main streets. I chose the theme of ‘zones’ in order to further explore this dual nature of the city. I felt inspired…
Looking at maps
“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,…