Wednesday, 5 March 2014

werestoreorderwithimagination

We restore order with imagination..............................
two great days of teaching - Norwich was a full day with year one work-shopping ideas around storytelling and working towards creating PowerPoints. http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/009-intro-to-powerpoint-01 http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/010-03-march-storytelling some real learning happened and I'm looking forward to seeing the results next week. Tuesday was all about assessment at Camberwell on the book art course. It really is interesting how inventive our students are around ideas associated with the book and I marvel at their skills.
The research essays are in and the list of titles will be added to the collection....I have copies of every final dissertation written on the Book Arts Course since its conception – How the places could change artworks display? - ‘Faceless self-portraiture’ - The Possibility of book to represent place. - The relationship between artworks and environmental protection – How artwork as a tool to remind people of the environmental issues. - The implication of Conceptual Art in books – is a book could be a tool to convey the concepts as an art form to bridge artists and viewers.


The Richard Hamilton show at the Tate is so full of invention and ideas that one needs time to absorb it all. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/richard-hamilton?gclid=COfZvqH0-rwCFUsUwwod4ioA1g The work constantly references its own history in a knowing way. I recently saw a set of the 'toaster' prints at Hauser & Wirth in the Onnasch collection exhibition in New York and thought that i knew the work but the set in the Tate are totally different and explore another layer of ideas. Room 12 is an important space to consider - 'Is the vision of Mrs Thatcher patronising a victim of the health service part of that future that we once thought so bright' - how far we have fallen...........