Tutor Report March 2014

	Open College of the Arts
	Tutor report

                                     

Student name	Siobhan Meehan	Student number	511948
Course/Module	Painting 3 ad	Assignment number

Overall Comments/ Skype tutorial

This tutorial was agreed as an extra tutorial in the event of you having changed painting course to Painting 3 advanced.

The skype session aimed to unpack where you are at present in your study, what your thinking is and a general direction to re-ignite your learning experience. Hopefully it also re-assured you that your project is worthwhile and valuable on many levels.

We discussed the latest work on your blog with emphasis on the conceptual impetus of the practice, I was impressed with the engagement of your research both practical and textual and was happy to advise you to re-read Luggage by Irrit Rogoff and suggested feminist geographers such as Gillian Rose that you could access. I strongly advised that you should aim to purchase Conceptual Art: a critical anthology. Edited by Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson, as this will inform your making and writing. Agnes Martin was discussed with relevance to the grid and we talked about keeping pared back and not throwing too much at each piece as you work towards defining your body of work.

With this in mind I advised you to make a series of experiments with the woven strips, grids, nets and paint, thinking about types of supports, paints and other mediums such as thread. The paint should be tested in relation to the tensile properties when the fabric is steeped in it- these sorts of experiments will lead you towards your new body of work.

Think carefully about the notion of absence: we discussed how the shirt could be read as expressive of absence through small indicators of the original material, a crease, fold, seam, button and so on… test these factors in your experiments.

Other relevant artists that you could look at (alongside the plethora already achieved) would be Eva Hesse, Emma Kuntz.

In relation to the history behind the project, I advised that this could be thought of as the impetus behind the work and not expressed as a literal translation into the work.

Your contextual studies tutor will be able to point you towards other reading and research but as a starting point here is some reading that might be of interest:

Kaprow, Allan, (ed) and Kelly, Jeff, 1993, Essays on The Blurring of Art and Life, California: University of California Press.

Kwon,Miwon, 2002 One Place After Another. Site Specific Art and Locational Identity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England: The MIT Press.

Lippard Lucy.R. 1998. Lure of the Local, Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society. New York: The New Press.

You had some concerns about time and I advised that you speak to the OCA to gain advice, keeping me fully informed.

The next stage is to read the new course material carefully, then write your plan as you keep experimenting with materials and mediums. We agreed on a possible first assignment date and this is to be confirmed once you have spoken to the OCA.

Tutor name:
Michele Whiting


Date:11th March 2014

Next assignment due: 17th May 2014 TBC