Category: FMP

Final Major Project. January – June 2019. Entitled ‘Shinrin Yoku’; an exploration of the health and well being benefits of being among the trees examined with reference to the contemporary sublime.

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CHWA conference 2019.

https://www.culturehealthandwellbeing.org.uk/

The Great Northern Rhino @ Hancock Museum. Arrive early. A beautiful morning waiting for the doors to open.

Tea & coffee & biscuits, along with Fabric Lenny’s box heads welcome delegates to the conference. There are unfinished ones for us to contribute to throughout the two days.

Paul Slater aka Fabric Lenny draws big screen during presentations that do not have media. Each doodle is rotated to form base of new idea – very engaging to watch.

http://www.fabriclenny.info/

Designing environments for wellbeing.
Orchid Music! (awekid- awchestra in the making)

More thought provoking content regarding the role of visual art in ‘arts in health’.

BOUNDARY WORK/BOUNDARY OBJECTS – though not relating to ‘health’ …… rather akin to Sarah Casey’s work on the ‘boundaries’ of the seen/unseen. …….. sort of working in liminal spaces to reveal meanings and find shared understanding.

A joyous finale. Dancing heads grooving to the ‘Lawnmowers Beat This Band’ while Lenny’s animations dance on the walls.

Fabric Lenny’s animated drawings dance to Lawnmowers drums.

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FMP PROPOSAL(tentatively)

Concept: A visual exploration of the effect that ‘place’ has upon thought and feeling (well-being). The driving questions are … How do places ‘communicate to us’ and impact upon our emotions, ideas and feelings? How might this be quantified? – particularly in a way that can inform #artsinhealth. What can visual artists learn of and express through a ‘language of place’ that can contribute to #artsinhealth?

The Artistic Challenge: To develop work through a contemporary lens on ‘the sublime’ that creates a sense of ‘silence’? ‘well-being’? and evaluate this.

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Writing a proposal. Part 3.

I sat with KT today and talked through ideas and inspirations so far, referencing Pecha Kucha, my research, and reading through a draft version of the Proposal documentation that I worked on over the weekend. Very helpful to focus on what might constitute a more contemporary lens on the sublime and to hone research question language in my draft proposal.

We discussed this work by Olafur Eliasson in relation to the contemporary sublime, in addition to Ai Weiwei’s ‘Tree’ below.

A CONTEMPORARY TAKE ON THE SUBLIME!

Can I please pitch for The Turbine Hall for my FMP ?



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Writing a proposal. Part 2.

Having decided to limit the ‘environment’ that might impact upon us to a more intimate space than ‘landscape vastness’ (personally, feeling this to be something of an artistic anachronism in terms of the contemporary sublime); I began some research around ‘art/gardens/parks’. Again – rich resources online at The Tate. https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/earthly-delights and https://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/articles/cultivated-minds-art-garden

I found this particularly interesting https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/exhibition/art-garden/art-garden-exhibition-guide/art-garden-exhibition-guide because the principles of ‘Thresholds and Prospects’, ‘The Secret Garden’, ‘Fragments and Inscriptions’, ‘Coloured Grounds’, and ‘Representing and Intervening’ begin to provide a visual framework around which to explore my own ideas in the forthcoming weeks ….. This article also led me to the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay with whom I feel I may be about to become a little obsessed! I MUST go to ‘Little Sparta’.

Arcadia [collaboration with George Oliver] 1973 Ian Hamilton Finlay 1925-2006 Purchased 1974 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/P07025

Above, further research for visual references and inspiration around art/garden. http://www.artsandgardens.org providing some interesting information about garden designers and artists’ gardens. I am intrigued by Jenck’s use of materials and sculptural forms in the environment as well as using the land to sculpt with. A visit to The Garden of Cosmic Speculation could be possible…….