Introduction to Art Practice
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Introduction to my Art Practice:
Over the past eighteen months I have been developing an interest in regeneration and gentrification of the urban landscape. This academic year, I am working towards a body of work which explores the human emotion associated with the process of gentrification. The visual language of photography will allow me to explore social change through materiality, the use of portraiture will create an individual introspection on the subject matter I am wanting to explore.
Tuesday 11th of August 2020,
My dream was interrupted this morning by the sound of movers toing and froing carefully packed boxes. Boxes of memories. I am uncertain how I should feel in a moment like this...
Fast forward, a forty-five minute commute to work. I find myself scribbling notes just before the presentation. I ask myself what lead me here in this precise moment. It felt like just the other day I was trying to connect with people on linkedin, in an attempt to secure my career. Four years later, I can finally answer that tired-old question of what I do.
The sheer chaos in-front me, pulls me closer to reality. The presentation could have gone better in my opinion, but sadly I don’t have time to reflect. I never have time to reflect. Or perhaps, I never make the time to reflect. What is this, I wonder?
In this precise moment, I am waiting for my friend to drive me to my new apartment, she’s late. Strangely, I enjoy these moments of in-betweenness. As I can allow my mind wonder, and perhaps my thoughts to develop.
I have found my self on the sixth floor, anxiously gripping the key to my new apartment.
I woke up this morning in one place, and I am going to fall asleep in another. Hopefully I can finally make this my home away from home. I had a conversation about the notion of the more money we have the more money we spend. A perpetual cycle of ‘lifestyle inflation’. I like to think I had a choice in this situation, but the place I called home, is a place no-more.
For the first time in my life I can afford to live, but at the expense of all those sleepless nights. I have a feeling that many more are to come. As I await for my friend, I try and imagine my life from a far. The memories I have will soon be over-written with new ones. However, my finger-print remains.
Projection Experiments: Digital Images and Projections, 2020. PMC 3 (Summative Submission)
Inspired by Tim Walker’s ‘Illuminations’ series, I decided to project images from ‘Return to Sender, No Such Address’ and ‘The Context of Change’ photographs from Art Practice 3 assignments. The use of projection allows for new contextualisation of pre-existing bodies of work. Recently, my practice has been about the documentation of domestic spaces and areas undergoing regeneration. The use of projection allows for visual combination of multiple spaces layered together. This creates a new physical dimension to the work. I envisage the work consisting of an installation within a gallery context with an audio component.
Exhibition Visits: Semester I
Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition 2020
Evgenia Arbugaeva: Hyperborea - Stories from the Russian Arctic, The Photographers Gallery.
From Here to Eternity: Sunil Gupta. A Retrospective, The Photographers Gallery.