Category: First Year
The Oldest Road: The Ridgeway, Fay Godwin and J. R. L. Anderson
“four dimensional guide book” – as much about time as about the three dimensions in which we often orient ourselves … More
The History of the Ridgeway
As well as exploring how individual items can store information from the past (e.g. coral and tree rings), I am … More
Tree Rings
Following on from my coral sketch I also did a sketch of some tree rings, mainly just running with the … More
Links
A list of links of interest (unspecified/unordered topics, continually updated): https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/18/ending-climate-change-end-capitalism https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/19/shocking-autopsy-photos-show-toll-of-plastic-waste-on-dead-whale https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/mar/20/donald-trump-stalinist-techniques-climate-science https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/apr/03/natural-world-climate-catastrophe-rewilding https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/19/iceland-holds-funeral-for-first-glacier-lost-to-climate-change https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interactive/2019/aug/12/life-on-thin-ice-mental-health-at-the-heart-of-the-climate-crisis https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/jul/22/memorial-to-mark-icelandic-glacier-lost-to-climate-crisis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/apr/30/eric-ravilious-painting-landscape-watercolour http://www.stoneagetools.co.uk/is-this-a-stone-age-tool.htm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_landscape_art … More
Christian Boltanski
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2010/jan/13/christain-boltanski-grand-palais-paris using heartbeats – reminiscent of Brian O’Doherty’s Portrait of Marcel Duchamp: Mounted Cardiogram “He deals in traces rather than … More
Coral
Although I’ve made a start to a researching for the summer project, I feel as though I definitely need to … More
Stone, Andy Goldsworthy (notes/ideas from the book)
“change is best experienced by staying in one place” – there is a difference between difference and change “A long … More
Susan Hiller “From the Freud Museum”
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/hiller-from-the-freud-museum-t07438 the piece is a collection of items that range from everyday objects to historically/culturally/anthropologically significant artefacts presented in a … More
Claudette Johnson: I Came to Dance
“I’m not interested in portraiture or its tradition. I’m interested in giving space to Blackwoman presence. A presence which has … More
Anna Harris 