Critical reflection on own best practice: My art practice: My art journey started in 2022, I had finished my A levels the previous year and taken a gap year. during this year I took a couple of online painting courses as I wanted to discover something new, I found that I really enjoyed making art and my teacher at the time encouraged me to take some in person courses as well. To begin with I started a Wednesday afternoon mixed media art class at Nottingham College and then began the Access to Art, Design and fashion course at Nottingham College in September of 2022. Following on from this I then stayed at Nottingham College and began my Fine Art Foundation Degree in September of 2023. During this time I was able to try out a variety of different processes and although I began with acrylic painting I eventually found myself drifting more towards photography and photographic processes. As someone who, before 2022 had never explored art and never considered it a career choice ...
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Castle Exhibition: Our castle work was exhibited using VR, with a few physical pieces displayed within the castle next to their respective works. I chose to experience the VR myself and while using it I found myself completely immersed within this experience. Most of the work that was displayed within the VR were pop ups of 2D images with artist statements that explain the piece. However, some of the pieces had small animations that made them move such as a wobbling jelly on the roof of the castle and kicking duck legs on the ceiling of the long gallery. I helped to invigilate this exhibition on Saturday and it attracted a decent amount of attention from the public, all of which thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
Open evening: After setting up for the show I ended up sharing my space with my course mate. I believe that our work complimented each other in terms of colour schemes and themes. Both of our piece involved aspects of nature and I believe that her stain glass centre piece goes together nicely with my set of digital collages as they both have this overlapping patchwork element to them. My course mate also displayed two sea scapes that I believe pair nicely with my rock face and cliff face images, they share similar tones as well as imagery. Overall, I believe that the opening night of the exhibition was successful the space was open and bright which allowed everybody to move around the different works freely. And the exhibition as a whole was well put together and cohesive.
Exhibition layout: I tried out a few different options when it came to putting up my work on the board, and initially I thought about overlaying my images to create a massive collage of them. Unfortunately, when looking at the result I found that it was messy and the images seemed to get lost in each other and it didn't have the impact that I wanted. I then thought about going in the complete opposite direction, I put my images into thin, sleek black frames and set them out in an orderly composition. I really liked the effect of this, the work seemed neat and the black frames allowed each piece to feel elevated and for it to really stand out against the white background.
Exhibition Label: For the end of year exhibition we were tasked with creating our own exhibitions labels with an artist statement on them to go along side our work. To do this I wrote a rough draft which I then put into Chat GTP to help make it sound more professional. I then further edited my statement to allow it to feel personal and to include important details. Exhibition Label: This series documents the artist’s journey of recovery following a decline in health. U sing photography as a form of therapy and self-expression, the artist created four digital collages that combine landscapes, food, and positive affirmations which are symbols of healing and resilience that they use in their daily life. These elements come together to form a visual narrative that reflects the emotional and physical demands of recovery, as well as the joy that can be found at the end of the journey, this piece offers a quiet but powerful testament to the strength found in the process of heal...
FMP evaluation: This FMP lasted 16 weeks and concludes the 2nd year of my Fine Arts Foundation Degree. To begin my project I started off with some photography of walks and hikes that I did while on holiday. The theme of this project was about recovery, this was a personal theme as last year I had come down very suddenly with an illness and have spend months recovering from it. I wanted this project to explore the themes of sickness, recovery, how these thing change and affect your every day life and the resilience and perseverance needed to get better. Through a series of images I was able to document walks, hikes and meals that I would not have been able to do or eat a month before and I found this process empowering and liberating. Once I had the foundations I was able to start developing my project. I started with cyanotypes as this is a fairly quick and easy process and used multiple of my landscape photographs to create the images. I experimented with a variety of diffe...
Possible display options: - I need to think about different display options for the exhibition - The fact that I have prints of photography means that installing my pieces will be easier and I have more flexibility when it comes to displaying my work - The most likely way that I will hang my prints is by using velcro