QofR: Presentation slides
Here are the final slides from my Question of Research presentation, along with the basic script. I’m going to be exploring the question...
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- Apr 14, 2021
- 3 min
QofR: Extended bibliography
Published articles and books Amy, Michaël. 'Nothing Outlives Mortality: A Conversation with Kristen Morgin', Sculpture, 29 (2010), 46-51....
- Apr 8, 2021
- 5 min
QofR: Reflecting on my own practice
This is definitely the hardest part for me. Partly from a lack of confidence that what I make could be defined as 'creative practice' -...
- Apr 3, 2021
- 4 min
QofR: Movable books
My interest in the haptic experience of reading/looking through an artists' book has led me to think about ways the artist can enhance...
- Mar 26, 2021
- 5 min
QofR: Haptic reading
I was really interested in the notion of artists' books as a conceptual space for interactive experience and decided to explore this...
- Mar 23, 2021
- 4 min
QofR: Tactility and artists' books
Another artist who I've been researching, and whose work is seminal to the development of artists' books is Dieter Roth. Roth began...
- Mar 17, 2021
- 5 min
QofR: Artists' books
Although a loose and baggy category, I would argue that what distinguishes an artist's book from other visual forms - sculpture or...
- Mar 3, 2021
- 5 min
QofR: Next steps
I thought it would be a good time to start with a recap on what I've discovered so far: Materiality in art is a relatively new concept....
- Feb 27, 2021
- 2 min
QofR: Paratexts continued
I started my research by thinking about paratextual theory within literary criticism and took a pause on that idea while I consolidated...
- Feb 24, 2021
- 2 min
QofR: The materiality of images
Just a brief blog to record an interesting lecture I watched by the photographer and academic Rachel Smith for the Open College of Arts...
- Feb 19, 2021
- 6 min
QofR: Materiality in contemporary Art
In my last blog I presented a potted history of materiality within visual art, today, I want to consider a few unanswered questions: how...
- Feb 10, 2021
- 6 min
QofR: Researching materiality
While I have some vague ideas about where I want to go with my question, I wanted to begin with some research into the history of...
- Dec 15, 2020
- 4 min
QofR: Ways of thinking and knowing
Mike started the lecture by asking us to offer up a solution to a problem, as a way to discuss three different reasoning methods....
- Dec 8, 2020
- 2 min
QofR: Collaborative research task
Over consolidation week, we were asked to complete a collaborative research task, which we would then present on our return. The...
- Dec 2, 2020
- 4 min
QofR: A written sketch
In preparation for our session with Dr Elaine Igoe, we were asked to create brief narratives about our research journey's up to this...
- Nov 25, 2020
- 4 min
QofR: The creative genius
Thinking about the idea of the creative genius: from Turing to Turner and why the reality is far more reassuring.
- Nov 17, 2020
- 4 min
QofR: Practice-based research
In a session led by Elaine Igoe, we focused on practice-based research, in particular, how story-telling and narrativisation can be...
- Nov 16, 2020
- 6 min
Artist spotlight: Franklin Booth
Franklin Booth was one of the pre-eminent pen and ink illustrators of the 20th Century.
- Nov 11, 2020
- 5 min
QofR: Models of Research
Discussing models of research and how they can be used to approach our own creative practice.
- Nov 5, 2020
- 3 min
Marie Neurath: Picturing Science
A look at an online exhibition of Neurath’s educational Isotype books.