Trinome's thinking: January 2012

Thursday 26 January 2012

5 Prints a week!

Start of five prints in a week project, original premise- attempt to loosen up my practice by doing a series every week of free association prints using any images and text that draws my eye.

In a sense this is going back to my original method of working where i would arrive in the studio and produce several separations that would be printed and in turn these prints would be reacted to by returning to the studio to prep layers specifically for them throwing in abit of editing/ trials on the fly. So have stared producing a set os separations for my first print, though this one has started to become abit too "involved" already but its just the start after building up a selection of seps i will be able to drop in and pull back various selections as i go. The only foreseeable problem will be workshop rules as i have to pay per screen i use and cant really use my own screen emulsion on my own screens (the technicians coat the screens for students!) anyway will try to work around this. Now back to the photocopier and scanner!

Monday 23 January 2012

Lynn Hynd

As suggested by Susannah in some of the feedback she gave me on my written work I traveled through to Glasgow to check out Lynn Hynd's exhibition "Collisions in the process of feeling obstacles" in the Duchy Gallery. Good small exhibition interesting work indeed though i was instantly drawn to her work on plaster opposed to the paper works, dont know why this is just felt as though they were more resolved. The plaster works were very fluid in shape, in that they have been made in seemingly unstructured ways (the plaster having been allowed to create its own shape for the most part) which has given me plenty food for thought as I have been looking to my own plaster works (which are all the same size with distinctly straight and measured edges) with a sort of mild discomfort, this i think has arisen from it being mentioned that the plaster seems to be more of a frame for the objects displayed on or in them. Anyway as i said food for thought and maybe an idea to try out. Lynns plaster works are definite objects in their own right, the marks on the surface echoing the rough plaster lumps on the back of the pieces and contrasting but not in conflict with the fluid edges of the surface on which they are painted/ printed.

Anyhow enjoyed the show.

Thursday 19 January 2012

Baboons n all (assessment feedback)

Had my feedback session on Monday with my tutor Graeme Todd. Had to hang about till after two in the afternoon to get my studio and studentship grades which meant i was quite nervous till i found out i had passed, which was a weight off my mind. Feedback was good, some interesting points raised and questions asked and true to form the tutorial took a rather bizarre turn as we ended up discussing the social structure of baboons and in turn a film Graeme mentioned "Sands of the Kalahari" a 1965 film based around a plane crash in the desert where the survivors have to fight to survive within the complex hierarchical society that makes up a baboon family group culminating in one of the men becoming the "king of the baboons" (this interpretation could be completely off as i havent actually watched the film but this is what came across in the discussion) weird i know, abit "Flight of the Phoenix" meets "The Jungle Book".

Anyway for all assessment areas there was good feedback the written component shining the brightest, which surprised me as this is the area i feel the most uncomfortable when it comes to formal assessment probably due to the fact that my writing has become more creative and less "stiff" and "institutionalised" but who knows. More writing is definitely on the cards with my Theory tutor Susannah Thompson having suggested perhaps contextualising where my interest lies in this respect. It definitely helps me with bridging any gaps between my studio based work which seems to just sit there feeding off of itself and the theory behind the work.

and now cue the film.......