In order to start a foundation for an informative and research driven enquiry into my area of interest within my practise, MA Fine Art, it is imperative that I start by understanding and discussing my own discipline and body of work as far. I must also understand and reflect upon work I produced throughout my undergraduate degree, which integrates and informs my current practise.
It is also imperative for me to understand the maturing and changing of my practise at current. The ways in which other practitioners in visual arts, inform and transpire through my practise, through both practical work and process, and theoretical studies/essays informing their practise. Contemporary and current issues and stand points within my field is vital in informing my practise.
I must start by presenting a personal statement about my practise taken my from website, which is inherent in informing my research and interests within my field:
My photographic and mixed media work aims to challenge notions of intimacy and the candid with the viewer through the circulation of emotion and concerns from a personal perspective, which has developed from an interest in the relationship between the familiar and unfamiliar. Elements of the psychologically charged and the observation of everyday subjects have become a running theme throughout my practice. Through early life events, the notion of memory and experience has also come to drive the running themes of self-exploration, the confessional and ultimately the autobiographical nature of disclosure within my work.
While writing my dissertation The autobiographical act: The movement from private to public within Contemporary Art, a topic in which incorporates the notion of confessional and autobiographical art, a movement in which I have found a firm interest in and informs my work, Antonio Damasio, a Neuroscientist, explains the notion of the autobiographical self.
Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it incorporates the culture in which the interactions took place (Damasio, 2011).
It is this idea that has and continues to inform and speak directly of the work I produce. However I could go in a completely different direction, I am seemingly interested in the notion of Anti-art and may look to explore this further.
Sources:
Damasio, A. (2011). Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio Explains Consciousness. Available: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/antonio-damasio/neuroscientist-explains-consciousness_b_783693.html. Last accessed 4th Oct 2017.
