Biography and personal statement

                                                         
                                                   Biography and Personal statement
                   
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                                                                STATEMENT

                            At this phase in my journey as an artist I am particularly

                            interested in exploring techniques that involve a range of
                            medias , such as paint, collage, mixed media and printmaking I
                            enjoy the interaction of materials and the visually stimulating
                            effects that are created from the process. Colour plays an
                            important role in my work particularly blues, oranges and
                            browns. I use colours to reflect my observations of a mood or
                            a situation that I am trying to convey. The context and ideas
                            that interest me are based on aspects of the human condition.
                           In a recent project I looked at issues concerning the effects of
                           Austerity Measures in society. Within my practice I endeavour
                           to produce work that translates ideas and concerns into a
                           visual context. One of the challenges I am conscious of is how
                           art can deal with social issues while being aesthetically
                           effective. Artists such as Kathe Kollwitz and Leon Golub have
                           been a source of inspiration and continue to influence my
                                                         practice .  


                                                                BIOGRAPHY                     


                          At this phase in my journey as an artist I am particularly
                          interested in exploring techniques that involve a range of
                          medias , such as paint, collage, mixed media and printmaking I
                          enjoy the interaction of materials and the visually stimulating
                          effects that are created from the process. Colour plays an
                          important role in my work particularly blues, oranges and
                          browns. I use colours to reflect my observations of a mood or
                          a situation that I am trying to convey. The context and ideas
                          that interest me are based on aspects of the human condition.
                          In a recent project I looked at issues concerning the effects of
                         Austerity Measures in society. Within my practice I endeavour
                          to produce work that translates ideas and concerns into a
                          visual context. One of the challenges I am conscious of is how
                          art can deal with social issues while being aesthetically
                          effective. Artists such as Kathe Kollwitz and Leon Golub have
                          been a source of inspiration and continue to influence my
                          practice . 

                 
                        MY PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE PRESENTATION via PREZI......


               The main points i want to make having now compleated my 1st PP presentation 

 As we all know and experience when doing a presentation it is not easy and seems quiet an unnatural  
experience!! .... well for the majority of us (including myself) but I got through it ... interestingly I found the question time about my presentation alot easier to deal with as I was interacting with the group

The main points of the presentation.......  these also include my on going reserch of Deforestation 

1. I talked about the World Land Trust ~~ Based in Halesworth a conservation that buys land in areas of the world, where rigorous deforestation takes place along with intense programs of farming be it biofuel or cattle farming along with other mass producing........... which strip the land of its narural resources due to this industrial corporate machine greed .
2.  WLT steps in to work i these areas to buy the land to work on restoration programs such as Planting  fauna ,trees etc... to reclaim the land obviously this then takes many years to restore the devastation caused. Another aspect is to buy land before any new damage can be done , working with the local NGOS  within areas of threat to deforestation is a main aim of WLT  as David Attenborough says 'The World Land Trust know that if the land habitat is to be saved , the people who can save it are the people who live there'. 
3. What I personally find inspiring about the WLT (as well as the points above ) is their desire to work with the NGOs and the local indigenous people groups they state that WLT is there to empower...  to work along side the indigenous people the land belongs to the people groups and they also state in a news letter they are NOT Green Colonialists, I find this a inspirational positive aspect when in todays world of dog eat dog mentality amongst the Capitalist take of corporate greed there are still those who show integerity compassion and a passion to an alternative way of living in this world .  

•   INTENTIONS; Collaboration with the world land trust.
• To work Voluntarily on site at  the WLT Gallery,one or two mornings a week 
• Time will be used to invigilate and produce work as part of my studio practice.
• Given a gallery space as a student artist so as to produce art work in response to the themes and empasis of the trust.
• Art work to be based over two months; 
• March - Birds and Bees.
• April-Hares.
• To create a landscape inspired piece of work which will be made as a commission and donated ti the world Land Trust.

• Disciplines - to work with variouse mediums PRINT -Etching

                                                                                           Linocut
                                                                                           Collagraph
                                                                             Drawing Pencil / Charcoal
                                                                             Paint Mixed Media Collage

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