A Few Birds and Plants

What happens after a critique?More questions arise than answers. It is a very destabilizing feeling. As I always do after a crit I go back to something simple, what is interesting this always involves

Human nature and the Truthiness of the photograph - Geoffrey Batchen.from The Nature of Photography and the Photography of Nature - Joan FontcubertaA very recent discovery has been the amazing book

The September seminar install and some thoughts on the feedback. This was the reconfigured space after feedback and thinking through theinitial display;  Glass bowls on plinth;The plants floating in

My current explorations: From my last work in July I have continued to question how plants/weeds have become our ghost. They are an ancestor of our travels, a blueprint of where we have been and who

My art whakapapa has had a transformation: It has become my 'art urpflanze' (the word urpflanze was first coined by Goethe. It was the primal generative plant from which all plant forms could be

What did I learn from this last seminar?This last seminar helped to bed a few things in for my art practice. This was helped by the lots of reading, thinking and analyzing I had done since the April

Layout plan for up in coming July Assessment: Aerial view of my space: Entry is bottom left - as you enter the space you will first encounter a very low white floating shelf with green-black images on

trials on glass:   the white images are 'straight/normal' images and the black are catoptric anamorphic distorted images.  these are both catoptric anamorphic images of a thistle.

where I fit in the art world:  This is my brain storm to create my art whakapapa. It is based around words that describe my practice and artist who link close to those words with their practice or

'been weeding' 'got distracted'

gallery visits in the city that inspired me;With the festival of photography on in Auckland, there was bound to be something that was off interest to me.Two exhibitions in New Market peaked my

A practice worthy of your time - Cornelia ParkerI was given this amazing book on Cornelia Parker by Julie, my contextual supervisor. Having just finished it I am struggling to put into words how

An approach to art making which links art & science - Sanna Kannisto.My supervisor, Julie, mentioned Sanna Kannisto as an artist to look at, especially the book Fieldwork - Sanna Kannisto. The essay

A Challenging Exhibition:Last week I encountered Photographs by Jono Rotman, at Gow Langsford Gallery in auckland, with my non artistic husband.Going to this exhibition with a non artistic person was

A chance discovery while doing some research last week found this great artist video; It was Janet Laurence talking about one of her works, the Cellular Gardens (where breathing begins) that I had

a 'Weed Garden' and more:Caroline Rothwell is another artist who has used plant material as the content in several of her works. Her underlying concerns for her work have been “the modification of