Research and Enquiry – Tina Culverhouse

Methodology Research & Enquiry

Considering my methodology the first questions are; what affects the decisions I make about my practice and what are the broader implications of what I am doing within the practice? In answering, I realised that I adopt different experimental approaches to explore an idea, often emerging from that experience. The word “emerge” has been aContinue reading “Methodology Research & Enquiry”

Researching Folds Revisited

Since researching folds previously I have been looking out for current artists who are using folds in their work. I came across artist Ty Locke whilst researching the Turner Prize shortlist for 2019. He showed up on my searches of Margate artists and had won the Platform Graduate Award in 2018 at the Turner ContemporaryContinue reading “Researching Folds Revisited”

Understanding the Ritual and Visual Language in my Practice

I have been reviewing my work following my progress crit. I have come up with some rough ideas about what I think the tentative direction my practice is taking within the context of the postgraduate study course. I have been making conceptual explorations and realise some of the following: There is a fluid and ambiguousContinue reading “Understanding the Ritual and Visual Language in my Practice”

UHArts – The Big Draw

spacial drawing workshop with Andrea V Wright I booked onto the Spatial Drawing Workshop on the 31st October 2019 with Andrea Wright. I had been told about the event by UHArts on the opening night of the Exhibition Extended/Line in the gallery. It was part of the nationwide Big Draw, as drawing is such anContinue reading “UHArts – The Big Draw”

Tutorial with Kerry Andrews 22nd October 2019

Tutorial Kerry Andrews and I discuss that being lost is an important part of the process. There is a peculiar transition from making into drawing its a translation from one form of thinking into another. There are forms of translation and reference of translation. So, the transformation between states within my drawing mean I amContinue reading “Tutorial with Kerry Andrews 22nd October 2019”

Line / Extended

17th October 2019 – opening of UHArts Line/Extended show I attended the opening of Line / Extended, a group show at UHArts gallery. The artists on show were Rosana Antoli, Andrea V. Wright, Jane Grisewood, Lucy Brown and George Eksts. I was interested in this show because I use line, drawing and installation extensively inContinue reading “Line / Extended”

Practice Development Louis Bourgeois – Insomnia Drawings

research on drawing practice I first encountered Bourgeois in 1986 and her work struck a fear in me. It was her way of speaking the unsayable and finding a language for pain, but juxtaposed to that pain and unapologetic at a time when subjects she was addressing were taboo in a wider cultural sense. IContinue reading “Practice Development Louis Bourgeois – Insomnia Drawings”