Dec 6, 2019 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research FMP, Final Major Project |
I continue to be inspired by painters as well as other photographers including Turner and Monet. I recently came across a painter at the John Davies Gallery in Moreton-in –Marsh, Janette Kerr who in turn has been influenced by J M W Turner. Kerr practises her art in...
Dec 1, 2019 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research FMP, Final Major Project |
I have written about Nan Shepherd (1893-1981), the Scottish writer, before in my CRJ. I recently came across a new collection of her work entitled A Collection of Nan Shepherd’s Writing: Wild Geese. Shepherd spent most of her time in her native Scotland and in...
Nov 23, 2019 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research FMP, Final Major Project |
The book Landscape and Western Art by Malcolm Andrews was recommended to me at the end of Informing Contexts and I finally dipped into a chapter entitled Nature as Picture or Process in Week 7 of Final Major Project (FMP)? For me there were a number of insights and...
Nov 16, 2019 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research FMP, Final Major Project |
As I work on my Critical Review of Practice I am finally crystallising my thoughts in terms of my personal ontology and how that influences and informs my photographic practice. During the modules of my MA I related my work very firmly to a phenomenological approach...
Nov 10, 2019 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research FMP, Final Major Project |
I was looking forward to my visit to the National Gallery of Scotland. I was particularly interested in seeing some of the landscape paintings, so important in Scotland’s art history, and whilst some of those were on show, I came away disappointed by my visit. It was...
Oct 31, 2019 | Contextual Research, Contextual Research FMP, Final Major Project |
I recently came across a book published by Aperture entitled Photo Work: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice. I thought it would be helpful to have a browse through it as I start to think about putting my Critical Review of Practice together for my Final Major...
