Prior to the meeting I invited Melinda to join this blog as I though it gave a good picture of my progress to date and would keep her up to date with my development.
Agenda
In regards to the structure of the first meeting, Melinda suggested:
- Introductions (overview of what your core interests are/ I can update you on what I am currently working on too)
- Initial ideas and where you think you are heading (development wise)
- Critique of the first set of imagery you sent over - ideas/areas for development (Blog critique)
- Discussion of a work plan and how we will manage our time together
- Things to do before our next meeting
Melinda's email
After the meeting Melinda sent her notes in an email:Dear Anne,
It was great to talk with you this morning (my time) and start our discussions off - as I said it was really great to see how much your are working with, both in terms of ideas and openness to experimentation.
I will always send you the list of artists, articles, thinkers I think might be useful and that we discussed after each session. So please see the below -
Artists
- Gerhard Richter
- David Hockney
- Pieter Vermeersch
- Mark Rothko
- Brigitte Riley
- Robert Rauschenberg
- Jessica Eaton
- Richard Mosse
- John Stezaker
- John Baldessari
- Alexander Rodchenko
- Louise Nevelson (In particular her work entitled 'Black Wall, 1959)
- The Dadaists
- Ruth Van Beek
- Peter Fraser
- Willie Doherty
Thinkers
- Oliver Sacks 'The Minds Eye' & 'The Man Who Mistook His Wife For Hat'
Articles & Collections/ Exhibitions
- https://wellcomecollection.org/
- https://frieze.com/article/did-damien-hirst-rip-aboriginal-australian-artistss-work
Have a good evening and all the best for the Mid Semester review on the 20th. If you have any burning questions, just email them over.
Many thanks,
Melinda
Forthcoming Editorial - Elephant Magazine
New Commission - Verbatim, America-ABCD, Edited by Patricio Binaghi - December 2017
New Publication - Beg, Steal, Borrow, Edited by Robert Shore LKP
Previous Exhibitions - Reversiones, Centro de la Imagen Mexico - 23 November 2017 - 1st April 2018
Previous Workshop - Red, Deal Or Real, Centro de la Imagen Mexico - 6 & 7 February 2018
Anne's email
After looking back at my notes and thinking about the experience, which was fantastic!, I wrote back to Melinda:
Dear Melinda,
I’m sorry it has taken me so long to respond after you were so speedy in sending the notes below. Thanks for this record.
I really appreciate all the thinking you did before our first meeting to shape an agenda that would lead to a productive conversation. And also the time you spent looking and thinking about my work before we talked.
I was excited by our meeting in so many ways! I’ve written up my notes below so that you can see something of my excitement and also as a record of the meeting that will help shape my photographic explorations, my reading and thinking! I will also post it on my blog.
Experimentation
As you would know it is great to get positive feedback about your work. And you were so generous with your feedback. I am really enjoying being open to making images in different ways and using different tools.
You encouraged me to return to the photographs I had taken of temporary walls/tents and made connections between this and some of my later experiments about gaps, light, splits, what is revealed and what is not revealed.
I will also continue my exploration of manufacturing space and creating new edges through 2D to 3D transformations. I’ve been thinking about colour and stark black shapes and that has led me to look at Matisse’s cut-outs.
You brought me back to some very practical questions!
I am very committed to an investigation that does not seek a final resolution but asks questions.I am very interested in the idea that photography is a language that provides an opportunity for conversation so that ideas can grow.What do you want to make?What do you want to achieve?What do you want to be know for?What are the central concepts/political ideas?What are the right tools?Do my photographs say what I want it them say?How can I use the right tools to make the concept stronger?What do I have inside that I can channel out?
Being inspired
The list of artists that you have provided is extremely useful and I have already started some preliminary investigations into the artists that I didn’t already know. For instance I now have a picture of Jessica Eaton’s work in my mind!
I made notes about the connections that you suggested I might make between my work and other artists.
I’m looking forward to becoming familiar with the FOAM Museum/Collection in Amsterdam and also the Wellcome Collection in London. I’m very interested in the connection between art and science.Gerhard Richter (physicality, paper, page, psychology)David Hockney (painting not collage, aesthetic, perspective)Mark Rothko (hue, tone, shifts, comfort, pushing to the edge, emotion connected to colour, colour theory)Brigitte Riley (optical illusion, creating a space, negative/positive space, dots and lines, physical time)Robert Rauschenberg (layering, collage, found objects, installations)Peter Vermeersch (absence of physical edge, only edge of walls/canvas, somethings don’t have an edge)Jessica Eaton (colour, shapes, geometry, multiple edges, architectural)Richard Mosse (b&w reversed, sharpness, light and dark, so much darkness, edge, physicality)John Stezaker (negative space, psychology of space)John Baldessari (red and black, colour, edge created by the edge of a card)Louise Nevelson (Black Wool, 1959, collected objects of the same colour, sculpture)Ruth Van Beek (sculpturaal photographs, cuts with knife, intertwining of ideas, physicality, space)Willy Doherty (Irish border, references colours of the flag)Peter Fraser (place, shape).
Reading
I have begun to read the essay by Charlotte Cotton in Photography is Magic and I’m most interested to discuss this with you when we next meet.
I’m looking forward to reading Sachs who you described as focusing on health and physicality through beautiful, poetic writing. I am interested in how we think visually and I have much to learn. (photography, cultural sphere, placement of images)
Talking about edge
I also really enjoyed and appreciated the conversation we had about the idea of edge and as I have continued my photographic experimentations this week, questions about the nature of edge have been central in my thinking. In particular I’ve been thinking about:
- borders and boundaries
- visual and emotional concerns
- imagery
- meeting points, the pace where things meet
- fragments
- splits, light between gaps, seeing through
- connections with history and science
- physical, emotional and psychological space
- entry and exits
- the edge of experiencing something.
Our conversation about human concerns related to the edge was very useful. We talked about refugees and Indigenous peoples in Australia and I have since been thinking about women and other possible human connections.
I don’t yet feel at all sure about this aspect of my work and it will definitely keep me wondering.
Again, many, many thanks and I look forward to our next conversation on Friday 27th April at 9am GMT.
Warm regards, Anne
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