Florence Inspiration
I went to Florence in the Easter holiday and was inspired by the sculptural work, specific in the Uffizi Gallery. I was particularly enthral led by the Niobe Room…uffizi room […]
Category Archives: Final Project
Interim Assessment
first painting exploring diagonals and unfinished – like the block colours and the different levels of intensity and looseness Sketch start with pink and cream underpainting Printing ink wash with […]
Writing Workshop
As I am the only person who has chosen the 50/50 option I thought I would be alone in this seminar, but it turned out that there were 4 of […]
Studio: 25th January
Another very productive studio day starting with a massive studio clear out and rearrange to make the space more functional. At work I am often talking about good studio practice […]
Studio: 19th Jan
Very productive day in the studio ‘multi tasking’. I have truly embraced the multi surface working strategy, so much so that I will have to majorly rethink how I am […]
The Vile Victorians
http://ostrobogulation.com/2011/05/11/memento-mori-victorian-era-postmortem-photography/http://entertainment.howstuffworks.com/arts/circus-arts/10-female-sideshow-freaks. Through my investigation of Victorian medical journeys I found Victorian postmortem photography – I’m not sure that this is relevant but I was quite fascinated with the artificiality of […]
Notes on Namesakes
Caroline suggested that I look at Joshua Sofaer’s Namesake performance. http://www.joshuasofaer.com/2011/09/namesake-the-story-of-a-name/‘Namesake is a live performance combined with a rich multi-layered audio track. The narrative follows the journey of an artist […]
Twist/Merge/Fight/Bite
Went out and about in search of visual source material to feed my final project. There has always been an element of staged in my work which is why I […]
Vitamin P/P2 Artists
I have just gone through Vitamin P & P2 to look for painters who use drawingness or bring gestural and tighter painting together to focus the viewer on particular parts […]
Excavation (Reviewing Blog Posts)
I have been looking through my old blog entries for work in progress photos of paintings. I started reading some of what I had written and was really surprised that […]
Alexa Cox Studio 