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19th October

I interpreted the brief of creating and exploring the medium of cyanotype with developing previous work that I’ve done, particularly the idea of tunnels/tunnel maps and connections under the City of Glasgow. I think that this worked well because I had cohesive work to build off of and develop further, which gave my work structure. When creating my cyanotypes, I took inspiration from artists like Anna Atkins, Anna Hepler and Walead Beshty because of the organic shapes created in their work, and their technique. I also looked at natural landscape and anatomy as a major part of my inspiration. The fluid organic shapes in nature and body are something that I wanted to incorporate in my work and combine with the urban tunnel aspect that I’m already looking at. I thought it would be interesting to show the connection between the urban landscape and nature. I think this work was some of my most successful from this course so far. The way that I incorporated previous ideas into my work helped
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5th of October

I found that the difference between arts courses and design courses is that art is to convey ideas and emotions whilst design is to create a functional object that can also communicate an idea. Almost all the courses I looked at across both areas follow this formula. A lot of the courses use the word communicate, which showed me at all the courses want students to communicate their ideas and emotions. I think that Glasgow is more focused around individual and reflective study and the delivery of the course is distant, vague and indirect, while Edinburgh and Dundee are focused around guided study as well as reflective and the delivery being direct and attentive. After looking more deeply at the GSA 2021 degree show I’ve seen some work that interested me, which has slightly changed my view on GSA. It seemed a lot more individual than previous work that I had seen, a lot of it being experimental installation work, which is something I'm interested in doing after this course. https://g
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28th September

After researching different courses across different art schools and universities, I've found that none are perfect. Each course I looked at had pros and cons. Looking at all the different courses that I could choose from made me realise that the course I choose doesn't define the work I'll create or the work I'll create after I graduate. Glasgow School of Art seems more restricted and designed for students that are already confident in what art medium they want or like to work in. The courses are already specialised. As well as this, the work that I have seen in past degree shows doesn't look innovative or new. I think that some courses are stuck in their ways as most students work looks very similar and not individual. The student satisfaction rate from GSA isn't high compared to the other Art Schools I looked at. The sculpture and environmental art course looks interesting as I like the work that was shown from last years open day and this years degree show.
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21st September

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Paul Purgas: We Found Our Own Reality 2021 Paul Purgas is a contemporary artist and musician based in London working with sound, installation, and performance. He was initially trained as an architect and studied at the University of Westminster. He was taught by Cedric Price who instilled the idea that architecture was transferable across all mediums. Purgas would later realise that he didn't want to be an architect after learning that he would be creativity constrained. He then studied at the Royal College of Arts London which he would later drop out to explore the possibilities of sound and architectural space. The exhibition at Tramway ( We Found Our Own Reality - 2021 ) is a celebration of Indian electronic music, Indian architecture, and culture fused into a cohesive installation. Using old cassettes found from the NID (National Institute of Design) in 1969, Purgas layered up the different sounds and recordings he found, varying from the sounds of old technology and electroni
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14th September

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Kinetic Art Is the manifestation of the fascination with movement that defined modern art from Impressionism Onwards. It has its origins in Dadaism and Constructivism, both from the early 20th century. The Kinetic Art movements spans multiple decades and has its foot in many art movements due to the increased use of technology and modern science in art practices. It is art that relies on the presentation of motion or movement, which evolved from the inspiration taken from post world war technology. Kinetic art was born from the destruction caused by World War II, the constant use of machinery was something artists used to depict the beauty of movement and time. Kinetic Art helped remove the stigma of technology post war by showing viewers technology in new forms contrasted against the violent and harsh ways it was primarily used. An important artist from the Kinetic Art movement was Naum Gabo. He believed that art should have an explicit and functional value in society. He started off
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9th September

John Fitzpatrick's work is primarily steel etching, he uses a combination of cross-hatching and unconsidered marks to build up a deep and intimate level of tone only accumulated over time to create the minimal geometric shapes depicted. As a member of the Glasgow Print Studio, Fitzpatrick used the traditional steel etching process of waxing, etching and printing the plate to create his work. It explores the  idea of change and transformation through time using solid black void boxes. He is particularly influenced by the work of Richard Serra, who was born in 1938 in San Francisco who's work is most known for his minimalist sculptures of large, self-supporting weathered steel. He is heavily influenced by the idea of the process of material, and how the material interacts with the space around it. Serra created deconstructed sculptures that were focused on the arrangement of objects like brick. He used a similar working style to Abstract Expressionism artist Jackson Pollock of wo
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Why I Chose This Course

I originally chose this course as a way to bridge the gap between school and art school, as I don't feel ready for the jump to doing art full time because I think I would burn out creatively. I hope that this course will teach me how to handle creating work full time, as well as building an extended body of work that I feel proud of. I also liked the examples of the work coming out of the course, as I felt influenced and excited by looking at them. I know people who did this before moving on to art school and talked highly of the experience and the many benefits it gave them for creating work that they want. I was surprised by the way the course is actually structured compared to how I thought it was structured. I like the amount of time set for each project and how fast the course is set up to move, as-well as the type of work that we will be doing in each project. I am really looking forward to the personal and self driven project at the end of the course, because I like to direc
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