Transmission Lecture - Guest speaker - Felicity Allen (Tuesday 14th October 2014)
Working practice.
Drawing
Painting
Photography
Installation.
Felicity Allen spoke passionately about the importance of education and more significantly an art education she believed that education was key to broadening the mind and opportunities. A valuable experience in life to inspire and achieve success. She was extremely thankful to the art institutes where she was taught for the wealth of knowledge and opportunities that resulted from her education.
The work she spoke about during the lecture was "Begin Again" a series of 150 watercolour portraits, painted from 2009-2014 accompanied by text and audio recordings. The work was formed in to a collective, in the form of a book known as the "Begin Again Chronicles" the work involved 75 sitters interacting with the artist during the period of time of sitting.
I found this lecture a little hard to follow as Felicity Allen didn’t interact much with the audience she read for a long time off sheets of paper without many breaks so was quite boring and without engaging much with the audience she made little eye contact with those that she was addressing and seemed to by-pass certain things she said as she presumed we knew the things she was mentioning. However she mentioned certain things I found of interest. And I liked the self documentation aspect of her work.
Transmission Lecture Tuesday 7/10/14
The first week of the Transmission lecture series was started off by a series of brief lectures, given by lecturers of Fine art. Here are some of the brief notes I took from the lecture.
Chloe Brown: During chloes brief talk she talked about the nostalgia of her youth, growing up in a time of activism, marches and protests during the rise of the feminist era. She reminisced on the strong women influences that effected and inspired her thinking and belief such as Kate Bush. She then played a Youtube video clip of the artist Louise Bourgeois a great influnence on Chloe as an artist and a woman.
Chloe Brown: During chloes brief talk she talked about the nostalgia of her youth, growing up in a time of activism, marches and protests during the rise of the feminist era. She reminisced on the strong women influences that effected and inspired her thinking and belief such as Kate Bush. She then played a Youtube video clip of the artist Louise Bourgeois a great influnence on Chloe as an artist and a woman.
| Louise Bourgeois "Peels an orange" In the video Louise Bourgeois demonstrates one of her father's old dinner party tricks the distressing memories of her father's mocking nature towards her as a daughter and a woman is evident in the video. As she regresses back to her childhood torment she endured, re-living the event causes great emotional distress for the artist. Louise Bourgeois is a major artist in the Feminist movement, eventhough she rejected claims she was a feminist or that her works portrayed such issues, she was greatly admired as an icon of the time. |