I've Suffered..

Shipwrecks.


Right from the start. 

A drawing from one of my sketchbooks. I love to draw with music.

Abandoned

I love empty buildings, abandoned space, forgotten about places. Something about them really captures me. I think part of it is the idea of how much life used to be there, what happened and what set of events led it to being neglected. 

These are film photos I took in Finland when a few of us went on an adventure, they were beautiful buildings filled with memories and objects suggesting some sort of previous life but ultimately made your heart sink. 

Art and Sexual Politics.

I'm really interested in looking into the sexual politics within the Arts. 

I have decided in my dissertation for my Degree I will be exploring the question 

‘Has women’s role in the art industry changed from the 1960’s To the present day? From a Feminist perspective’

I will be looking into my question using a Feminist perspective, looking at the relationship of art and social class in different time periods. I want to explore how society and the economy can make it demanding for artists and even create a barrier for certain people to create art.

I will be looking into how women our viewed within our society and how there situation and experience differs from men’s.

 ‘The arts as in a hundred other areas, things remains stultifying, oppressive and discouraging to all those-women included- who did not have the good forture to be born white, preferably middle class and, above all, male.’ – Linda Nochlin, pg 5 Art and Sexual Politics.

When questioning the role of women in the arts you have to also ask the questions like, What social classes are artists most likely to come from in different periods? Do major artists come from families in which their close relatives were  involved in the profession?

The 1960’s through to 1970’s is looked on as the second-wave for feminism,

Dealing with inequalities of laws, role of women in society.

-equal pay act, 1970. Aftermath of the ford machinist strike in 68.

- using the media.

Women were seen as having certain roles in society that they needed to do, look after their husband, be a parent and housework. Art was only ever seen as being able to be a hobby for women, where as men could make a career out of it.

Looking into the question Linda Nochlin puts across, ‘Why have there been no great women artists?’ you have to take into consideration what effects art. Also the political situation and how women are treated generally, women’s experience is a lot different to men’s.

Women put in the category of  ‘Women Artists’ rather than a category that is defined by the work they produce.

-Guerrilla girls

Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous group of radical feminist artists established in New York City in 1985. Known for their posters, books, billboards, appearances and other creative forms of protest, the group aims to expose discrimination and corruption.

1997. Still life exhibition at MoMA which featured only 4 women among 71 artists

When I have more room..

I'm going to start a teapot collection.

I think they are beautiful

Me and Mr Essay

I don't think we are going to get along,

Instead of writing you i will sing a little song,

I like to draw, print and paint,

but the idea of writing an essay makes me feel quite faint,

You see Mr Essay we cant be friends,
because of instead of writing i draw with your pens, 

when I'm supposed to be creating a structure i will be playing in dens. 

Sorry Mr Essay, Its just the way it is going to be, 

Now I'm going to put you off another hour while I have a pot of Tea. 

Im currently with my fellow comrades in occupation of University of Lincoln. Not only am I here because I believe education is a right not a privilege, Education should be free and available to everyone. Also because as an Art Student im really worried about the 30% cuts that art funding will be hit with. It is already really hard to live off being an artist and to also make it as an artist, and these savage cuts and rises in tuition fees will make it harder for artists, art students and people whose dream is to be an artist like mine always has been. Art and culture is such a massive party of our society, why is it right that in our lives we wont be able to do what we really really want to do,  but instead work in a job that we don’t really want to be in paying of debt for all our working lives. We need to fight, for our future and the next generation.

Hinterland

The Hinterland projects are a series of site specific projects along the River Trent in Nottingham. Working with many different artists, curator Jennie Syson led the project since 2006. 

I'm really interested in Site Specific work and am fascinated by temporary art pieces, the idea that a piece could only be viewed for that exact amount of time then all that's left is documentation and the memory that it happened. This is shown in one of my favourite pieces from the Hinterland projects, Jonathan Willett who created a project called Freeze In September 2006, Willett produced an ice sculpture in the form of an arrow from one of the diagrams, as the basis for navigating connections between movement and experience.

The ice sculpture was floated into the river near Trent Bridge and eventually melted away into the current, a reminder that the modern, frenetic way of life is sustained by the cyclical time of nature. This work was a pointer to a possible place in the future, where there may be little option but to slow down a little, in order to overcome the environmental problems which are caused, the artist believes, by an excess of activity. Freeze was intended to remind the audience that the idea of doing less is not only a possibility but perhaps a necessity if we are to create a sustainable way of life.

Hinterland between 2006-9 comprised artist’s talks, presentations and seminars; a series of 3 bespoke publications documenting past and present projects including commissioned texts on the arts and ecology, site-specific art works and the local history of the Hinterland site.

http://www.hinterlandprojects.com/