The whole point of being an artist is to investigate and that is what has found me here, creating a blog which may or may not be interesting to people but to have the chance to invite people to interact with my work.
So, the story so far....Last year I discovered that an ancestor of mine (Susannah Maria Middleton) had a series of letters that were in the collection of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, which detailed both her journey from Portsmouth to Gibraltar and the life she found when she arrived there. The letters are written to her sister and provide a fascinating insight into the social life of a young woman in 1805.
These letters provided me with an incredible amount of inspiration which is sustaining me and inspiring me a year later. I have used them in a variety of ways to test my practice, some of which were a triumph and some a disaster but it has all been fascinating and that is what has led me here.
At the moment I am planning to propose two pieces of work for my second year major project entitled 'Content and Context' where we are being asked to create work for the Lower Gardens in Bournemouth and our lead artist Emma Purchase planted the idea of running a blog alongside any work I produce.
So, hopefully there will be a lot to read about as I go about working out what I do and how I do it and you might even be part of it by participating and interacting!
Great opening blog Ali - can't wait to read more. Good luck with it, I'll have to make your blog my Sunday morning ritual now
ReplyDeleteHi Ali - great, another art blog to add to my feed reader. I think it would help if you showed some of what you've been doing with this concept already. I look forward to hearing more about Susannah.
ReplyDeleteYes, more visuals please! Lets see some of the background stuff! I would have loved to have found a note, hope you get some good responses from the general public, it's an intriguing concept.
ReplyDeleteHi Ali- thoroughly enjoyed the course last saturday...and finding your blog most interesting. See that your tutor is a Purchase, this was my maiden name..wonder if she is related?
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Hi Wendy, Can you please contact me as seem to have lost your email address and need to send you something!! My email is alisoncboard@gmail.com Thanks
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DeleteAli, finding your blog from its very beginning is rather like discovering a treasure trove. You just shared how you have an idea for a new body of work that will emanate from these letters and here you are in Jan. of 2012 ready to propose the very first two pieces of art from your practice that emanated from these beloved letters of Susannah's. How exciting! I look forward to following you on this journey from its roots. Love, Lin S.
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