Project proposal: The power of nature - BA Final year For this project I want to focus and explore the power of nature and the world around me. I want to use a variety of mediums to create a body of work the explores the beauty, strength and magic of the natural world. I would also like to explore areas of folklore, possibly Irish mythology, as my mothers side originates in Ireland and I believe that this will create an additional personal aspect to the project. I plan to use photography as a base and starting point for this project, I believe that photography is a versatile medium the will allow me to continue to build and develop the project with ease. I wish to explore different different photography processes such and film and perfect processes such as Cyanotypes, I would also like to try different forms of printing and develop my skill set. To begin with my research I think that the best course of action would be to travel to local and accessible areas of nature such a...
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Evaluation of skills needed for vacancies advertised in my field that are matched to my individual strengths: I went online to search for different types of photography jobs, as this is what I would be ideally looking to do as a career in the future. This is the first example of a job that I have the required skills for and would be able to apply for now. I have 3 years worth of experience with photoshop as well as experience with other adobe tools such as light room and illustrator. This is an example of a vacancy that I would be able to apply for once I have finished my bachelors degree. I am a strong photographer, I have years of experience with customer service and am able to thrive when it comes to customer facing work. This is something that I feel would be perfect for me, again I am a strong photographer and have many years of social media experience. I am versed with all types of social media and know how to navigate them competently. I have ...
Short and long term goals: Short term goals: For my short term goals I intend to continue to explore my fine art practice to discover new processes that I might enjoy and also build on and perfect my current processes. I intend to use my remaining year at Nottingham College to its fullest and make the most out of all the resources and opportunities that I have. I also plan on graduating with a 2:1 at the end of this college year. I wish to explore photoshop, photo editing and video editing much more throughout this coming college year. I want to develop my skills and perfect these processes as I believe that this will give me an interesting skillset and an edge when pursuing future endeavours within the photography business. I plan on developing some of the more traditional art skills such as drawing and painting to a higher degree. As an artist I have mainly focused on more free and abstract processes while neglecting my foundational skills. This will better me as an ...
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 ...
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.