Sara Grisewood

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Wednesday 11th october

Gallery visits

Ambitious itinerary, didn’t manage to do it all !

 

First off, Wade Guyton at Serpentine. Amazingly large digital paintings on canvas using digital ink printing technology. I liked his use of domestic quality printers, the kind we have at home,.iPhone photos and then joined together. Also based on a painting  Das Parisier Atelier 1807 by Swiss artist Hans Jacob Oeri… and using his studio as subject. The studio is used as material in and of itself for this exhibition,.Printed on linen, folded on half and run through inkjet printers with inconsistencies caused by ink glitches etc. Demonstrates ability to use anything as subject matter.

 

Herman Bas at Victoria Miró

Cambridge living. I liked the transfer prints and a charcoal and gouache drawing of rooftops . The paintings had a sad nostalgic quality.

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Chapman brothers at Blain Southern. Reworking of entire set of Goya prints. How much did it cost them to buy set ?

 

Tal R at Victoria Miró in Hackney. Sex shops vivid but soft colours like dyed fabric. (Subsequently watched film of him painting railcar series of paintings v interesting re how painted them and consistency of paint). I'm not sure that I like his work.

 

Martin Puryear at Parasol Unit

This was star of all the  visits for me. I loved the combination of craft, truth to materials and sense of scale.

 

 

 

Thursday 12th October

 

First of a series of all students, including MA drawing, showing images of our work. It was long and nerve wracking for lots of students mainly because you didn’t know when your turn was ! Might have been better to work in smaller groups as the length of the session meant students had possibly zoned out by the end.

I showed an image of a painted collage on plywood offcut made in last 2 weeks.

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Thursday 19th october

The next presentation was of 10 images, Pecha Kucha style, again it was long. I couldn’t stay right to the end, you didn’t know when your turn was and by end one didn’t have concentration so some students didn’t get reception of everyone.

 

My 10 were :

 

1. Wenban disused Woodward in Lewes, photo.  By the river and remnant of industrial history of riverside when river main use of transportation for materials.

2. Interior of Waitrose supermarket on site next to wenban. I am interested in work place on site of former stonemasons and nature of work, contemporary work patterns.

3. Photo of storage yard by railway line in Wimbledon. I like the variety of materials and the way plants are growing through them. I also like the colours of signage around.

4. Rachel Whiteread at Tate Britain I liked the way these wall pieces look as if they could be heavy and they are made of papier-mâché a material and process I really like and also because it is low cost and transportable.

5. Catalogue for Tenement museum in New York which I visited a long time ago but opened up possibility of how using the history of buildings and the social history of the actual people who lived there could be interwoven and how the layers of history and memory could still be visible rather than erased.

6. I travel a lot on trains and especially this summer. This is Frome station – I really like the way it is constructed and is a through structure with light at both ends, open at both ends. It is one of the oldest through railway sheds in UK still in use, designed by jr hannaford and opened in 1850

7. Elizabeth Price exhibition at bexhill on sea De la warr pavilion, curation of objects, paintings, drawings, film, to illuminate and create her artwork.

8. Hyperallergic online art journal.

9. Image of painting by prunella clough.

10. Anne Truitt – her day book published in 1982. Journal of being an artist and how it intertwines with your every day life. Also, I just found this book which I had wanted for a while in a charity shop in Wimbledon !

 

 

 

Wednesday 25th and Thursday 26th October

 

I missed the Wednesday – talk by Ian Monroe.

Thursday

Woodwork induction. Useful but part timers will need to be strategic in our use of facilities as we don’t have anywhere to leave stuff at college. I also don't want to spend lots of time making things if Im not quite sure if I want to, say, paint on canvas or board.

 

Installation of work by ft and pt students in both studios

I hurriedly put my work up as I was away yesterday when most put theirs up. Away because I don’t know how much discussion there was about how work was hung, I simply found an emptyish space and stuck it up.maybe its early days and everyone was just a bit nervous about showing work.

 

Group crit – in 3 groups which worked better than large groups we have had previously. This encouraged us to listen and talk within a smaller group and focus on the work and wide range of interests of those students.

Sarah Kate Wilson joined us for half the crit and was a responsive different voice at times as regards some students work and making us confront issues as they arose.  and how course is also about us developing our skills at providing useful critiques for other students and also how important crit is to understand and contextualise what you make, materials you use,  and how you choose to present it. I enjoyed everyone looking at my large cardboard nearly falling off the wall piece and SKW mentioned looking at Lynda Benglis paper works, and  Felix Gonzales Torres. I also showed a plastic record card box with record cards with journal notes and b/photos collages on from this summer since Naomi died. SKW very interested in these and how to make these the art work.

Just seeing the wide range of issues and artwork making in our group of 10 makes you realise what a resource the student body is for us. We have access to a wide range of potentially fascinating areas of skill and knowledge and research interests. And the potential to tap into that for each of us is huge. Just how to get us to do that ! Maybe we all need to keep conversing in relatively small groups and see possibilities of collaboration.

 

Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd November

 

Introduction to creating a Wix website (for an online research journal) in the computer room with Geraint. Very useful and it looks quite simple ! Let’s see…

 

Lecture by Samia Malik

Interesting re activism and her work post Grenfell tower. Important as there isn’t actually that much discussion about art and politics or art and gender at Wimbledon. Nimmi went on to an open reading group at the women’s art library at Goldsmiths. I had to get home because of Lucy but would have liked to go.

 

 

2nd November

Reading group

Texts about Gerhard Richter and his political paintings and Baader Meinhof paintings. Really interesting as I read up loads around the texts and realised didn’t know much about Richter or B-M so also showed GR place in art history and how he expanded theories of modernism… 

 

I did have more notes on this but never mind. Interesting discussion but again difficult group talk as slightly too big a group so didn’t really get down to anything and certain students tend to dominate discussions which is inevitable. There must be other ways of  trying to encourage students who don’t normally participate to engage and feel confident enough to talk, even if just within a smaller group which reports back.

 

 

Eleanor Bowen lecture

Contextual Practice project.

Really useful lecture about how to approach our contextual practice.

(Gilda Williams Writing about contemporary Art)

 

Ask question : why am I painting like this ?

 

Why, why why ? Contextual enquiry will start to find answers . Not validating or justification but part of your enquiry.

Develop your practice and your ability to talk about your work and situating yourself in the world in relation to other artists etc. To support your practice, keep reflecting and try to see first assessment as an opportunity to consolidate and get feedback… and then go on !

Part time : contextual practice project by Monday 14th may and then exhibit 22nd may to 24 th may.

1000 word essay :

Identify and articulate your core ideas, extend your conceptual and analytical skills. Get down broad ideas for the 1000 word, for the 2000 a bit more depth and for the 4000 a developed idea.. 1. Identify subject, 2. Aims, 3. Title , question, 4. Bibliography – broad and with variety.

Aerial 12pt, double space, Harvard system of referencing.

Look at past essays on Moodle. Finding a question important. 

 

 

 

8th November

Geraint : lecture on Painting in Expanded Field insert link to notes on Moodle.

Really interesting talk by Geraint on lots of artists I have been reading about. How painting has to constantly branch out and widen its scope . 

Rosalind Krauss etc. Me – look at Robert Morris. 

Read Briony Fers essay expanded painting

Re read Forever Now, Laura Hopton.

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Thursday 9th November

Studio visit

Denise first up in Brighton. We even made it down to the beach. We had tea and cake at the Phoenix Studios and looked at her work. We then got  train to Lewes to my house and studio. It was quite a big deal having everyone at my house but Hector the cat was friendly and we had soup and bread before the crit. Crit was helpful as first real look at physical bits of work, even though I haven't done very much. G said I needed to get away from the splodgy painting marks and I agree. We talked about how the supports might become the work.He said look at details in your photos and do more drawings. 

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Add here journal notes for Katherina Grosse talk and exhibition. Rose Wylie exhibition and talk. Geraints landscape talk (notes on Moodle) Eastbourne Towner Gallery Green and Pleasant Land exhibition.

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Thursday 7th December

Simon Gallery tutorial

Useful on interdisciplinary practice (I missed his talk earlier in term about working with archaeologists... which is a shame. think it was around time of Neves birth and thats why or Lucy ill, I can't remember which)

Simon talked about how to develop my idea of what painting is, in an expanded field. and in relationship to the site I am investigating which I told him all about. He said to develop my thoughts / processes around this alongside, i.e keep it to the forefront - exploring process and materiality and thinking about how painting can be used (in an expanded way) (expanded sounds a weird term) and how we need to continue to push what painting rather than just use same ways as in the past which would mean painting would die ! He encouraged me to research in widest possible sense, and not just recent industrial history but further back to prehistory. And to see it all as Landscape... which was interesting. and not to be precious. Talked about cardboard and to use it, to push it further, and the land locally in Sussex, chalk etc. the geography and shape of the area. He encouraged me to work on site and to approach owners of site etc to try and get them to let me in buildings to do work (I have subsequently done this and will include letters etc as appendix). I am now inspired to work at the site and collect different materials and to do more research,

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