#about practice

Questionnaire about Practice

During my research investigation I have been looking closely at the Inter-disciplinary within my practice to determine how I brand myself as a creative. I thought a useful exercise would be to conduct a questionnaire about practice to see how others approach the inter-disciplinary elements within their work.

Above I have scanned in the answered questionnaire, I will be transcribing the information below in-case I need to refer back to the answers provided if the information is relevant when writing my dissertation.

Each Participant was asked to sign a declaration form which states that the information they provide might be used in my dissertation which may be accessible for the public to view.

Participant 05: Lucy Parris 

About Practice - Questionnaire

Q1. What are the Key Themes that you are exploring within your practice ?

Answer: Landscape, Genius way, memory / impression of place, fragmentation of memory/ image.

Q2. What Makes your practice Unique ?

Answer: I am working with print but in a sculptural three dimensional way rather than as a single image. 

Q3. What are the main goals that you hope to achieve within your practice?

Answer: A resolution of ideas through a visual format.

Q4. Have you had to overcome any issues regarding your practice ? how did you tackle them ?

Answer: Moving from an illustrative / representational way of working to being more conceptual working with other conceptual artists, researching other artists has helped.

Q5. Would you say that there were any projects or ideas that made you change the direction of your practice and why ?

Answer: working with the physicality of paper has made me rethink how paper could be used as a material itself as opposed to just a vehicle for an image.  

Q6. How would you say your working environment influences the way in which you work ?

Answer: I work outside in the landscape as well as in the print room and my studies at home.Each environment produces different ideas and results. 

Q7. Would you say that through studying art you are able to learn more effectively/ efficiently, and has this allowed you to develop research in different fields to gain a higher level of knowledge ? (if yes please explain what research areas you have gained more knowledge of).

Answer: yes. studying art and artists and theory deepens and expands understanding. This informs my own work and encourages a more thoughtful, considered piece of work. 

Q8. Can you describe what inter-disciplinary skills you have developed whilst practicing art ? (for example, writing, digital design, other elements of making, even skills that could be utilised outside making).

Answer: An increased experience / knowledge of print procedures and how other media can be miss portrayed. Group collaboration in curating was a useful experience.                           

Q9. Do you think that in our technological society, it is easier for a practitioner to develop skills and strands of knowledge to an extremely high level in other disciplines or would you say technology is more of a distraction ?

Answer: Technology is a huge field to learn about. it daunts me. I still work in more traditional media. Technology in something I haven’t explored as much as much as I would like.

Q10. Does working collaboratively benefit your practice ?

Answer: The opportunity has not really presented itself yet. 

Q11. Can you name the last project/exhibition you worked on collectively and what were the successes of that project ?

Answer: N/A

Q12. What do you think the word ‘artist’ means ?

Answer: A broad term that covers anyone who enjoys making work that conveys an idea representative or abstract in a visual medium. 

Q13. Would you consider yourself an artist ? (if not why and how would you brand yourself ?)

Questionnaire about Practice

During my research investigation I have been looking closely at the Inter-disciplinary within my practice to determine how I brand myself as a creative. I thought a useful exercise would be to conduct a questionnaire about practice to see how others approach the inter-disciplinary elements within their work.

Above I have scanned in the answered questionnaire, I will be transcribing the information below in-case I need to refer back to the answers provided if the information is relevant when writing my dissertation.

Each Participant was asked to sign a declaration form which states that the information they provide might be used in my dissertation which may be accessible for the public to view.

Participant 04: Ciprian Grigorescu

About Practice - Questionnaire

Q1. What are the Key Themes that you are exploring within your practice ?

Answer: Contemporary Culture, subjectivity, Multi stable perception, aesthetics, fragmentation, value attribution.  

Q2. What Makes your practice Unique ?

Answer: I don’t Know, its kind of presumptuous to call it that.

Q3. What are the main goals that you hope to achieve within your practice?

Answer: It’s kind of the only thing that make me happy, so I’m selfish from that point of view.

Q4. Have you had to overcome any issues regarding your practice ? how did you tackle them ?

Answer: You need to do that on a daily basis, That what keeps it interesting, it’s kind of careers masochism, You go through with it with conviction, grit and willpower.

Q5. Would you say that there were any projects or ideas that made you change the direction of your practice and why ?

Answer: All the time, because they’re just better than the old ones. 

Q6. How would you say your working environment influences the way in which you work ?

Answer: it either motivates and challenges me, or it annoys me with lack of peer activity and enthusiasm.

Q7. Would you say that through studying art you are able to learn more effectively/ efficiently, and has this allowed you to develop research in different fields to gain a higher level of knowledge ? (if yes please explain what research areas you have gained more knowledge of).

Answer:I don’t studying art gives you that skill.I think that in order to be an artist (and a self initiator of projects). you need to be the kind of person that is disciplined and a self learner. You can know about different fields but a full time maker will not be a full time surgeon, he needs the professional education for that field as well. 

Q8. Can you describe what inter-disciplinary skills you have developed whilst practicing art ? (for example, writing, digital design, other elements of making, even skills that could be utilised outside making).

Answer:                            

*Design.                       

*Problem solving.

*Philosophy.

*Ethics.

*Ecology.

*History.

*sociology. 

* Labour. 

There are probably more but they don’t come to mind. This doesn’t mean i’m a scholar in those areas, just that Art made me more aware and knowledgeable.

Q9. Do you think that in our technological society, it is easier for a practitioner to develop skills and strands of knowledge to an extremely high level in other disciplines or would you say technology is more of a distraction ?

Answer: Both, Info is more wildly, available, But those skills need to be attested by a diploma, That’s why universities still function and professional education courses (private) and developing high level requires you to have self discipline. 

Q10. Does working collaboratively benefit your practice ?

Answer: yes.

Q11. Can you name the last project/exhibition you worked on collectively and what were the successes of that project ?

Answer: The Morning exchange, I met very involved people and had very productive conversations.

Q12. What do you think the word ‘artist’ means ?

Answer: I don’t know, I don’t call myself that, I guess it’s a certain unconventional way of looking at things, or maybe not, who knows. Google says that an artist is someone who engages with visual art (creates/practices). Maybe google is right, maybe not.

Q13. Would you consider yourself an artist ? (if not why and how would you brand yourself ?)

Questionnaire about Practice

During my research investigation I have been looking closely at the Inter-disciplinary within my practice to determine how I brand myself as a creative. I thought a useful exercise would be to conduct a questionnaire about practice to see how others approach the inter-disciplinary elements within their work.

Above I have scanned in the answered questionnaire, I will be transcribing the information below in-case I need to refer back to the answers provided if the information is relevant when writing my dissertation.

Each Participant was asked to sign a declaration form which states that the information they provide might be used in my dissertation which may be accessible for the public to view.

Participant 01: Sabrina Powell 

About Practice - Questionnaire

Q1. What are the Key Themes that you are exploring within your practice ?

Answer: The female journey, menstruation,female rolls taboo, feminism.  

Q2. What Makes your practice Unique ?

Answer: my practice is unique because it’s being expressed through my eyes and life experiences.

Q3. What are the main goals that you hope to achieve within your practice?

Answer: I hope for a successful MA hand in.

Q4. Have you had to overcome any issues regarding your practice ? how did you tackle them ?

Answer: One of the issues with my practice I had to overcome was not having a studio space, so I just worked from my room at home.

Q5. Would you say that there were any projects or ideas that made you change the direction of your practice and why ?

Answer: yes, kinda I feel like the concepts that fuel my work have always been there waiting to be channelled by the right material.

Q6. How would you say your working environment influences the way in which you work ?

Answer: I would say for me when creating Art you have to be in the right mindset with the right energy (good or bad) so the environment definitely important. 

Q7. Would you say that through studying art you are able to learn more effectively/ efficiently, and has this allowed you to develop research in different fields to gain a higher level of knowledge ? (if yes please explain what research areas you have gained more knowledge of).

Answer: I feel that studying art has opened my mind up to doing research in different fields that I wouldn’t have made connections before.

Q8. Can you describe what inter-disciplinary skills you have developed whilst practicing art ? (for example, writing, digital design, other elements of making, even skills that could be utilised outside making).

Answer: I learned how to keep it informative updated blog (I had never done a blog before).

Q9. Do you think that in our technological society, it is easier for a practitioner to develop skills and strands of knowledge to an extremely high level in other disciplines or would you say technology is more of a distraction ?

Answer: I think it can be both. if you have learnt how to navigate the technology the technology it can be very useful yet sometimes it’s easy to go off on a tangent and waist hours.

Q10. Does working collaboratively benefit your practice ?

Answer: Yes I would say so.

Q11. Can you name the last project/exhibition you worked on collectively and what were the successes of that project ?

Answer: No I haven’t has the opportunity to work collaboratively at uni, but it definitely.  

Q12. What do you think the word ‘artist’ means ?

Answer: Creator, marker and thinker, someone who is expressive (not necessarily), someone who see’s the world differently.

Q13. Would you consider yourself an artist ? (if not why and how would you brand yourself ?)

Oh! Well, you don’t have to worry too much about that, my first two or so years were filled with drawings that didn’t improve at all. But, now that i look at it, I realised that that time was just me building up muscle memory.

I personally started off joining a group on DA which focused on teaching people how to draw manga. I found that having to do weekly tasks (practicing anatomy, hands etc.) as well as having people to tell you where to improve really helped.

What I found to be useful when I first started drawing is copying other drawings (mainly anatomical) until I my hand knew how to draw the right shapes easily and automatically. Then I would draw it again without copying and ask for other people’s opinions about how to improve and I repeat the process, keeping their opinions in mind. 

Basically, what I mean is to draw constantly and consistently and ask people for help~ You might not think you’ve made progress but i assure you it builds up over time.