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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

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

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.