Unit 4: Project Proposal 2019-20   UAL Awarding Body / CSM Foundation

 Candidate Name:   Hannah Owen       Candidate ID Number:  190066325

Curriculum Area:   Fine Art

Pathway:    Painting 2

 UALAB Unit:            Unit 4 - Consolidating Practice

 Project Title: Ordinary Moments outside of Time.

 Section 1: Project Review

During my time on the painting pathway I have experimented with methods to distort, break and blur images, to use as starting points for my work. The workshops have enabled me to make my own canvases, and learn about oil paint, it’s properties, and how it can be used to different effects. I have been inspired by artists such as David Noonan, Monster Chetwynd and Katharina Grosse, who have challenged me to experiment with working in and out the frame; using different materials, (such as yarn,) to paint with. My thinking has been expanded, causing me to free up my work, activating the space around it. I have enjoyed the opportunity of having an exhibition to work towards, pushing me to widen my boundaries, venture out of my comfort zone to create a completed piece of work to show to an audience, gaining valuable feedback.

Much of my work involved movement, and I am keen to explore this further in my project for part 3.

Section 2: Project Concept & Description     

For my project, I would like to explore the ways in which we experience time in our daily lives; sometimes time stops and awareness heightens, other moments time rushes past. I am interested in the shrinking and expanding of time in our day to day activities such as eating, cleaning, working. How do we value these, and does that change how time passes? 

In my research I would like to look at the work of Maaike Schoorel, Mark Rothko and Giorgio Morandi, who are artists whose work is subtle and takes time to emerge as you contemplate it. It is a slow and meditative process, and I want to explore how they accomplish this, using layers of paint to create stillness or depths of colour that appear gradually.

I aim to explore movement techniques such as repetition and layering- learning from Frank Selby whose drawings capture movement by placing still frames over the top of one another. I will look at the work of the futurists to help me think about speed and progression, and if this can ever be taken too far?

I envisage collecting images of everyday activities from sources such as old family albums, books, and the internet. I hope to look at multi flash photography that captured the tiniest details of movement. I will take photos of activity in my own home, capturing my dining table every hour for 12 hours, and other moments that I can break into freeze frames. I will use inspiration from the 24/7, A Wake-Up Call for our Non-Stop World, exhibition that I recently visited.

Section 3: Project Evaluation

For the duration of the project I will regularly record my thought processes and work development on workflow, and in my sketch book. My continuous research will also be uploaded with the books and exhibitions that I am viewing. I will reflect and refer back to my initial proposal to help me keep on track. I hope to have regular conversations with my peers and tutors receiving feedback and advice. For my final evaluation I will document the feedback that I have gathered from formal Critical Reviews and conversations that will help to analyse how well I have managed the aims of my project concerning the everyday movement of time.

 Section 4: Proposed Research Resources and Bibliography

 Exhibitions

Tate Modern- Mark Rothko, Giorgio Morandi and Futurists

24/7 A Wake-Up Call for our Non-Stop World. 31 Oct 2019 – 23 Feb 2020. Somerset House

Everyday Delight. 5 Dec 2019 – 28 Feb 2020. 2 Bartholomew Road, Kentish Town. NW5 2BX.

Time Smoking A Picture. George Eksts.13 Feb 2020 – 14 Mar 2020 107 Essex Road. N1 2SL.

Dorothea Tanning: Worlds in Collision. 24 Jan 2020 – 21 Mar 2020. 16-18 Berners Street.W1T 3LN

Video Brings Its Time to You, You Bring Your Time to Paintings and Drawings. David Hockney. 28 February – 25 April 2020

Life Captured Still by Hito Steyerl and Harun Farocki. 6 Feb 2020 – 4 Apr 2020. 37 Dover St. W1S 4NJ

Books

Kahneman, D., 2012. Thinking, Fast And Slow. Penguin Books.

Rowan, T., 2019. Time. 1st ed. Great Britain: Piatkus.

Marey, E., 1972. Movement / (translated by Eric Pritchard).. 2nd ed. New York: Arno Press.

Saatchi, T., 2005. The Triumph Of Painting. Jonathan Cape.

Johnstone, J., 2008. The Everyday. Edited By Stephen Johnstone. Whitechapel.

Highmore, B., 2001. Everyday Life And Cultural Theory. Routledge.

M, J., 1974. Cubism, Futurism And Constructivism (a Dolphin Art Book). Thames And Hudson.

Seldes, L., 1978. The Legacy Of Mark Rothko: An Expose Of The Greatest Art Scandal Of Our Century. Holt, Rinehart And Winston.

Rothko, M., O’Doherty, B., 1985.Mark Rothko: The Dark Paintings 1969-70. New York: Pace Gallery

Nb. Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Pace Gallery, New York, March 29-27 April 1985 

 Section 5: Project Action Plan and Timetable: