SEEN NOT HEARD

CTS Session 6 During this CTS session, we were looking into the curation of exhibitions, and how the arrangement and selection of work has changed in galleries over time. We first looked into how paintings used to be arranged in an order of hierarchy, the paintings at the top of the gallery containing subjects of …

HOW TO CRITIQUE

Last Everything Is New Workshop As we wrapped up the Everything Is New project, our last workshop was preparing us for critiquing and learning how to critique, as further on in the course we will be having group critiques, where we will be expected to critique the work of others, while they critique our own. …

MICRO MAGAZINE

  EVERYTHING IS NEW OUTCOME. The micro magazine we created in the Reconstruction workshop was the outcome of the first project Everything Is New. This outcome not only was the result of a workshop task, but was also a collection of everything we had learned and discussed so far within our illustration course. Working out what illustration …

WORKSHOP 3 – RECONSTRUCTION

During this session we used our Brief Encounters illustrations, as well as the work from the previous deconstruction workshop to create an outcome that portrayed our individual perception of illustration. We used both our work and the work of our peers so that our outcome would be diverse and would include a range of  ideas and …

NO GOOGLE

CTS SESSION 4 - During this CTS session, we looked into ways of collecting different areas of research, through using different areas of the internet other than Google. We learned that there was a part of the internet known as the Deep Web. The Deep Web consists of password protected databases that aren't available for …

CTS EXHIBITION REVIEW

CTS Session 5 - Surreal Science - Whitechapel Gallery. The exhibition that I chose to visit was the Surreal Science exhibition at the Whitechapel that included the work of Salvatore Arancio, who was responding to an art collection and exploring themes of surrealism and science. The original collection was brought together by artist collector George Loudon. …

TRANSNATIONAL HISTORIES

CTS Workshop 3 - Transnational Histories We started of this session with the question "Who are the most important artists?" We then had to work in small groups and generate a list of 10 top artists that we felt were the most important. When having this discussion with peers, we found it hard to solidify …

IMAGE VS OBJECT

CTS SESSION 2 Image Vs Object 11/10/18 In this CTS session we looked into archiving comic books, and how comic books have changed and developed from their original form, to graphic novels, and why these changes have been made and how it effects the reader's experience and how the story is translated. In the first …

WORKSHOP 2 – DECONSTRUCTION

  DECONSTRUCTION This workshop encouraged us to become a bit freer with our illustrations, and to begin breaking down the different elements that make up an illustration to get us thinking about the individual parts of illustration rather than final, solid products. We used our illustrations from our Brief Encounters task to create imagery that focussed on the …

WORKSHOP 1

First Briefing and Mini Exhibition Our first studio session consisted of us getting briefed on our first project of the year, the project being called "Everything is New" and it being a way of exploring and defining what illustration and visual media is to us. Following the CTS discussion of "what is illustration" it allows …