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By exploring themes of suppression and expression, using the body as my subject to depict through various methods of painting e.g. watercolour, acrylic, paint pens and gouache, looking at what each can bring property wise representing the idea of stimming and movement in our bodies. I’ve tried various experiments exploring techniques when painting, from applications of colour, to exploring substrates and applications of paint whilst working into collaged bases. I now have a variety of resolved and unresolved paintings that explore these ideas whilst revolving around the topic and essence of expressions of movement, and the suppression of self. The most effective pieces came from my watercolour paintings, with the less layers of paint bringing the best results, which stemmed from of studies I did from references that I gathered when doing yoga. I feel this could be explored more in depth when it comes to form and the body through larger pieces in the future.
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Usually in preparation for tutorials/critiques. This semester I had a variety of tutorials and obtained advice from lecturers, I met with- I booked my three tutorials with the intention on talking to lecturers who would best cater advice to my focus with painting this semester. I had a session with Eddie Somerton, where we talked about birds and Yoga, and embracing on my madness. I then booked twice with Janice Atkin, where we spoke about painting and ended up mistaken for a 4th year student by the “maturity” of my work. Then as for my advisor meetings, I met twice at the start and middle of semester with my advisor from last term Mark Wallace, where we spoke more about my “quick” paintings and future possibilities with performance work. Paul Harrison was my advisor this semester and although I had met him last, I was still nervous on how my work would come across. In the end I was glad to have him as my advisor this semester, he confirmed that the way I was approaching these journal entries was ok. I then asked to meet with Helen Gorill after her seminar, as I felt she was the best to go to advice for on the topic of my essay about the “representation of marginalised voices” and particularly autism in media. Helen helped me find the theories and confidence to write my essay, as I have always struggled with written work due to my fragmented-educational experiences. Overall, from tutorials the outcome was an abundance of advice, which I incorporated mostly into my studio practice someway this semester. In general, the consensus was that my “quick” one-layer watercolour studies came across as most effective and some of my best work. There was plenty of advice and ideas on how I could expand my practice in the future, which I hope to do so during the summer and next academic year.
 Colour has always been something I felt connected to emotionally throughout my life. This started when I was a kid, when I consistently saw colourful shapes. It was a shock when I found out that no one else around me could see the shapes. In more recent years colours have integrated themselves into my emotional states so much that how I feel on certain days will affect how I dress/present around others. Dark and muted colours acting as my “barrier” to the outside world when I am not “myself”. Whilst brighter colours uncoordinated signify inner distress and me supressing/masking myself, but bright and coordinated colour schemes show I am happy/content with how I am that day. This has become so prevalent in my everyday life that my support-sisters (team) can tell how I am starting the day by what I have chosen to wear/present. I want to create psychedelic paintings invoking on these complex connections to colour I subconsciously and consciously have, like a “Alice in Wonderland” aesthetic. I feel materials evoke different colour pallets and which I can use to my advantage to create more multi-layered pieces in future work. I also need to work more closely with limited/monochromatic colour pallets that focus more on tone and contrast rather than my own usual colour selection.
By using spoken word prompted via collage, I wanted to write about topics surrounding my project and Neurodiversity in a multi-media format. When writing about pieces regarding emotional experiences and responses to prompts I’ve created audio accompaniments to my reflective journal entries. These are to be made with spoken-word recordings which are created via collage journal pages. I have learnt that all text gathered from various media has value when it comes to creating more believable expressions of topics to write and speak about in future work. Handwritten- personal/emotional touch. Typed Text- constructed yet personal. Phrases- interesting and invoking interest to the topic. Paragraphs- context to the topic Newspaper/magazine clippings- blends “sections” of text together Catalogues- random yet interesting wording/phrases In future I want to embrace and prompt the exploration of future topics in more depth by creating a journal/artist book to encapsulate my research/thinking process in collage.
The idea that flowers could be symbolic for mental health, like fluctuating emotions/mindsets, as both come and go as they please. Whilst flowers wilt, we deplete, but we both perk up. Inspired by the “Garden” scene in “Alice in Wonderland” (Disney’s depiction) and how this could translate into the idea of one’s inner demons/voices, by using various forms of emphera/imagery, I played with and created a series of collage work centring around the idea of escapism into one’s inner world. Printing off macro pictures of flowers/fauna (I have taken on visits to Dundee and St Andrews Botanic Gardens), pictures of my various pets, and photos of myself, I created a narrative with collage centred around the idea of what happens when someone supresses sides of themselves internally, and the inner turmoil this can cause. In my case the “inner madness” I wanted to replicate with collage was quite complicated, so in future work I want to include and explore this method in more depth, by looking more into symbolism with the emphera and flower/fauna I use in my art.
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