Landscape Photographer of the Year 2012
After my research for the last module and reading the Abstraction chapter of Art and Today, which discussed how many abstract artists drew their inspiration from the landscape, I have […]
Author Archives: Amelia Wilson Art
Charming China
Saw this article in the Mail a couple of weeks ago – still live today (publish date) showing some amazing pictures of rice paddies in China. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233305/Sunrise-sunset-reflected-flooded-rice-paddies-dug-Chinese-mountains-1-000-years-ago.html The images are […]
Colour paintings
These are two of the paintings I did for submission to Fabric of the Land 2012. Whilst they may not be quite appropriate for the audience (they weren’t chosen), I […]
Art and Today
Art & Today (Eleanor Heartney, Phaidon Press Ltd, 2008) is a large tome of writing on contemporary art and we were asked to choose one chapter to read which we […]
Personal paintings
I’ve been reading Touched with Fire by Kay Redfield Jamison and in the early chapters, she talks about historical figures whose behaviour has lead her (and others) to believe they […]
Mental Health Research
All links were live and accessible on the publication date of this post. I have been reading books and doing lots of online research on mental health. Either written by […]
Colour diaries
I had been thinking for some time that I could/should do an artistic diary of some sort. I had bought various things to try to encourage me to do so […]
Vertical Flâneur : A Journey Through Non-Linear Space and Time – July 4th 2012
The Wide Open School programme states: “THE ARTIST Pedro Lasch (b.1975, Mexico City, Mexico)Pedro Lasch’s art involves public interventions, social interactions and ‘temporal arrangements’. The range of his projects encompasses anti-monuments, […]
Pitcher research
My initial ideas for this piece were definitely inspired by Damien Hirst‘s Midas room at the Tate Modern Show. These are rows and rows of cubic zirconia placed on glass […]
Tutorial with Angela 22/10
Reflection on outcomes since last tutorial At my request, Angela and I focussed mostly on research and writing topics and understanding where and how to position my practice. We discussed […]
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