Monthly Archives: April 2013

Tutorial Notes – 1966

The article I was given to read a couple of weeks ago (I have since discovered, from Hall Foster, R. K., Bois, D. J. A-Y., Buchloh, H. D, (2012) Art Since 1900 Thames & Hudson, London) was about the year … Continue reading

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Synaesthesia and art – is January red?

I have synaesthesia and I’ve always wondered whether it means I have an advantage in my artistic pursuits. It is believed that between 1-4% of people have some form of synaesthesia. The word synaesthesia is composed of two Greek words … Continue reading

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Japanese Outsider Art

A while back I was introduced to the field of Outsider Art at college, a concept which fascinates me as it connects the notion of creativity and mental health with the idea that everyone has creativity within them. The Wellcome … Continue reading

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Artists I have ‘discovered’ at college

I was thinking today, randomly, about the good and great artists I have been ‘introduced’ to during tutorials at college. I think they deserve a blog entry to themselves as I owe them a debt for the inspiration they have … Continue reading

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Gallery visits – what they do for me

Since starting my Foundation Degree course I have been fortunate enough to visit a fair few galleries and exhibitions, some through the college, others with my family. This is a brief post about these visits, what I saw, and how … Continue reading

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Homework – read an article and comment on it, with pictures and stuff

For this week our homework was to chose an article (we were given three articles to chose from, one each, without knowing which article we were going to get), read it, and report back with pictures and comments. The article … Continue reading

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