I am beginning to realise and possibly grasp what I am chasing, revealing, and trying to catch. I am not sure realising is the right word; it is not exact enough for that struggle where you try to put your finger on something. Words are helpful but not always the best way to find answers….
Category: 2022
‘regroup’ Espacio Gallery November 2022
regroup Will take place at the renowned Espacio Gallery on Bethnal Green Road from the 9th to the 12th November 2022. The show will mark the first anniversary of the regroup Collective, a group formed in the Autumn of 2021, comprising many artists working in a variety of mediums such as sculpture, painting, print, and…
Goldsmiths: If pots could talk
Tea, coffee, honey, pepper, chocolate pots, a milk jug, jam jar & me. Domestic Vessels. Vessels of knowledge/portent. Lift the cup of life to your lips and sip. Or is it vessels of knowing that raise our curiosity? Revealing the occult, removing the fear of the hidden and unknown. Making familiar the frightening. Using education…
It’s complicated.
Divergent and convergent thinking. Having completed four years of study, at the eleventh hour, I stumbled over what I believe may hold the answers to my many questions. I like to have a lot of choices; I enjoy the investigation and the final solution leading to more questions. My ‘pitstop’ solutions are my Momento Vivere,…
Goldsmiths: Vessels of Correspondence. September 2022.
Detail of: Digital documents of a mixed media installation in flux. 2022. While exploring Jacques Rancière’s assertion that art might start turning the spectator into a conscious agent for transforming the world (Rancière,2009), I have arranged my thoughts, findings, and reflections and made them visible by creating these vessels of knowledge. They have taken the physical…
Goldsmiths: Vessels of Correspondence. September 2022.
Questioning Jacques Rancière’s assertions, art could start turning the spectator into a conscious agent in transforming the world (Rancière,2009). I have arranged my thoughts, findings, and reflections and made them visible by creating these vessels of knowledge. They have taken the physical form of zines, objects, and a panel in an installation containing links to…
Goldsmiths: Sarah Chalkie Cloonan. A critical reflective statement. Independent Studies. September 2022.
Making Thought Visible. In this statement written at the end of my MA in Arts and Learning, I critically reflect on what I have learnt while making and researching how my art practice might fit now within an educational setting. I show how this new learning will feedback into my praxis for the future as…
Goldsmiths: Spaces of Practice. Essay Module 3.
Can a gallery be both a space of art production and a space of display? In my essay I shall be focusing on the Whitechapel Gallery as the place of display, asking if it might be a place of production too. I shall be experimenting with ethnographic and phenomenological research methods at the gallery and…
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