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Exercise 2.2 – The artist as archivist

This exercise asks the student to write 500 words in your learning log on a piece of work by one contemporary artist- photographer who uses the archive as source material. You may focus on any artist you wish here but you may wish to select either: • an artist who exhibited as part of theContinue reading “Exercise 2.2 – The artist as archivist”

Exercise 2.1 Motif and Archive

This exercise asks the student to bring together a series of 12 images (a typology) in which a particular motif appears again and again. For this exercise, you may use found images (images you have at home as part of a family archive, for example) or images found online (from photo-sharing sites such as Flickr,Continue reading “Exercise 2.1 Motif and Archive”

Exercise 1.3

To complete this exercise, use readily available images to make a short narrative series of four to six collages based on a recent or contemporary news event. If you can, look also at British artist Lisa Barnard’s recent book Chateau Despair. Barnard used found archival news images of ex-Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher alongside shots ofContinue reading “Exercise 1.3”

Exercise 1.2

Part 1. Discuss a photograph that takes an existing work of art as its starting point. Write a 500- word reflection on your chosen piece in your learning log. I have chosen the work of Freddy Fabris for this exercise. I first encountered Fabris’ work in the form of his Renaissance series and his reworkingContinue reading “Exercise 1.2”

Exercise 1.1

Exercise 1.1 Use the following artists as inspiration Nancy Burson – http://www.getty.edu/art/collection/objects/296435/nancy-burson-big-brother-american-1982/ Corinne Vionnet – https://www.lensculture.com/articles/corinne-vionnet-photo-opportunities Idris Khan – https://fraenkelgallery.com/tag/idris-khan Helen Sear – https://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/artist-members/helen-sear Create a series of six to eight images using layering techniques. Due to the digital-only coursework PDF not having any of the proper links to the work of Idris Khan orContinue reading “Exercise 1.1”