Goldsmiths: How may art enliven the classroom?

Let it lurk in the maths room and sexy up science. Enrich English and add some he, me, she said what to the French paper. Propose a new lens through which to view physics and add a bit of charm to chemistry. Show how the body is displaced in biology. What’s not to like if…

April Cross Roads

Sunday 18th April 2021. It has been a productive week screen printing in the studio, bringing my past forward and moving on in to the future. Editing my thoughts and references to try and find a way though to some sort of resolution. I have had the ‘I’m giving up’,’its hopeless’, and many OMG moments,…

Artists and ideas to research in connection to my practice.

The Rules of Robert Rauschenberg – https://www.tate.org.uk/rules-of-rauschenberg Mark Bradford – https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2838-mark-bradford Lee Krasner – https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/lee-krasner-1441 Gerhard Richter painting – http://www.gerhardrichterpainting.com/ lucie attwell – peter pan – https://apps.lib.umich.edu/online-exhibits/exhibits/show/seven-fantasy-classics/peter-pan Far away tree Peter Doig, Mary Oliver – https://g.co/kgs/gBpr2v John Baldessari – https://g.co/kgs/2jiffQ Picture library. Knowledge may bring good and set you free the trick is to know…

Learning

We cannot assimilate knowledge without learning so my question is how do we learn. methodology and pedagogy Socrates – Pedagogy is an art (5th century BC). The main difference between Pedagogy and Methodology is that the Pedagogy is a discipline that deals with the theory and practice of education and Methodology is a systematic, theoretical analysis of the…

Material Research

Finally after a lot of wrinckles my canvas is as smooth as a babies bottom. I always think I won’t mind but I always do, the process of repair and rebuild has been incredibly satisfying and I have become quite involved with this process. I think the process of repair holds meaning for me. It…

Art.

On a very basic level, most people just put pictures or art on the on the wall to cheer themselves up or because the don’t like blank walls” said Patrick. “May be because there is a hole in the wall and they want to hide it, like a bandaid or a mask” I respond. Thoughts…