Thank you Alan Moore head. Alan Moore, why did I not make the connection between these two earlier? I first discovered Alan Moore while endeavouring to engage my children with stories, pictures and writing. Anything to get the homework done. A friend gave me a tip, too pointed for my tender children at that time…
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Week 14: When two things collide and get stuck in a Sandwich.
Named after John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, an eighteenth-century English aristocrat. It is said that he ordered his valet to bring him meat tucked between two pieces of bread, and others began to order “the same as Sandwich”. Ideas and execution We are sandwiched between the earth and the sky. We are sandwiched between…
Week 14: Vija Celmins & why do we paint?
Artists’ statements research. This was a new take for me. No story. Interesting. Although I can see a story. https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2019/vija-celmins Transcript: Vija Celmins: I don’t think there was ever a point where I said, “I’m gonna be, you know, an artist.” No. It seeped in. I was looking for something. I went to two paintings…
Week 14: Tearing up the Town.
Writing my Navigators critical essay has been a challenge. It has been torn up a few times made into a collage and then incorporated in a jar I was making/trying to make, my favourite type of making-no rules, feel your way through it. It collapsed I fixed it with my essay and rabbit skin glue…
Week 14: Where do painters learn from?
There are two well held views. Reading through the information from and looking forward to Bridget Riley’s new exhibition arriving at the Hayward Gallery later this month I spot both. https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/five-things-know-about-bridget-riley Riley spent her childhood in Cornwall, and she credits the Cornish landscape – its ‘bosky woods and secretive valleys’, its ‘changing seas and skies’…
Week 13: Reviewing Our Manifesto/ The long read.
The Manifesto project from week one seems such a long time ago. Time to tidy up the thoughts, processes and review. “Learning without thought is labour lost; thought without learning is perilous.” – Confucius. 551–479 bc. Our manifesto, ‘Homo Sapiens to Homo Digitalis’ is to examine group 8’s concerns bought about by our technological advancement…
Week 13: 300 Words – Artefact Research on what makes a Moon Jar so imperfectly wonderful. (Especially the one at the British Museum).
moon jar the art of imperfection – Google Search Moon Jar Exhibition | SumGyeoJin Gem Story of a Jar – Things of Beauty Growing: British Studio Pottery the moon jars, the art of the imperfection — Dezainaa moon jar – Google Search Moon jar | Korea | Joseon dynasty (1392–1910) | The Met In the…
Week 13: V&A review.
All the items I chose at the V&A to study, scrutinize and the sketch had stories behind them. Some from my imagination and some I manage to discover from the cards placed near them which I researched later. All were magical or poignant, some were quite troubling.
Sarah Chalkie Cloonan 
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