November - 2016

ABIGAIL KNOTT

MA Practice One - Contextualising Practice

MA Practice One - Contextualising Practice

When contextualising my work I consider my work to be of a high end market level, I have looked at Hermes as an example of a brand that I aspire to come close to. I have noticed a design inparticular, a collaberation between Hermes and Lucio Landa, a sports photographer. Lucio Landa photographs various sporting events and specialises in documenting equestrian events. The imagery created for the Hermes scarf design is a photographic image which has been edited and broken down

MA Practice One - Colour Palletes

MA Practice One - Colour Palletes

I have been basing my colour pallete on the colours that I collected when I first went out and started photographing texture and structure. When I began editting these images I felt it was important that most of my images were in black and white as I think that this is the best way to express real texture and for the viewer not to be distracted by colour. Sourced From: Own Archive I realised that I have been using similar colours to the colour pallete I used on my BA course,

MA Practice One - Authenticity of Documentary Photography

MA Practice One - Authenticity of Documentary Photography

Over the last few days I have been considering the concept of the authenticty of documentary photography. I have spent a few weeks collecting imagery of textures and structures to try to document what it is that I find interesting about these themes. Sourced From: Own Archive Now I am starting to collate these images on my MA Sketchbook page to show my findings, I am also interested in the concept of how accurate these photographs are and how I can over exaggerate the imagery

Sci-Art: Photomicrography

Sci-Art: Photomicrography

Whilst at Manchester Museum, I came across a microscope in the study which I think was meant for a childrens activity. The microscope photographed the view point and sent it via email. This is exactly the sort of scientific technology I want to be using to create imagery for my Sci-Art collaberation. Sourced From: Own Archives I saved a couple of images of a crystal I photographed with the microscope, I could use these images as part of my practice one unit as I am looking at

MA Practice One - Photographing Archives

MA Practice One - Photographing Archives

In an effort to explore and document more textures and structures, I contacted Manchester Museum to access the Archives of Rocks, Minerals and Crystals. I was able to explore hundreds of pieces collected from all over the world. Sourced From: Own Archive I spent some time photographing my favourite pieces, I am still not exactly happy with the quality of my photographs as I felt as though the visit was quite rushed and the conditions in the room were quite dark, I had to use

MA Practice One - Artist Research

MA Practice One - Artist Research

I have gone straight into creating imagery digitally without working on drawing and creating textures and designs from my photographs. I haven't physically worked on collaging materials as a way of creating imagery or drawing, everything that I have created has been based on digital collage. Sourced From: http://bethhoeckel.com/COLORS I have started to look at artists who practice collage as inspiration for my own designs, I want to take a step back and look at the way other

Sci-Art: Initial Research and Intentions

Sci-Art: Initial Research and Intentions

After a couple of taught Sci-Art sessions, I decided after getting to know a couple of people that it would be a great time to collaberate with someone on a new concept. Through the Sci-Art options unit, I discovered Scot. Scot is from a fine art background but is specialising in Textile Practice on the MA, we are both interested in looking at photomicrography as a way of collecting imagery. In previous projects, Scot has focused a lot on identity and cells and the beauty of

MA Practice One - Digital Darkroom Effects

MA Practice One - Digital Darkroom Effects

I have thought about exploring darkroom photography and photograms. I have always been interested in Man Ray and his photograms, I have recently discovered Anna Atkins and her exploration of dark room photography in the 1800's, I think that to be able to recreate this sort of images to depict detail and texture could be a really informative excersise. This would also give me more imagery to begin to create prints with. Sourced From: Own Archive I want to further explore this

MA Practice One - Documentary Photography

MA Practice One - Documentary Photography

I am almost certain that my definition of using photography as a documentation is different to other photographers, when looking for examples of 'documentary photography' I am faced with dark, raw images of cultural differences, street photography and depressing places - I expect this is mostly for shock value for news stories but I want to look at a more light hearted form of documentary photography. One example of this Vivian Maiers collections of photographs. Her work is c

MA Practice One - Photography as Art

MA Practice One - Photography as Art

Since collecting images from my last two photoshoots, I decided to go back to a digital collage method of creating imagery. I discovered that I enjoyed creating images this way on my BA course. Up until now I have been focusing on photography as documentation, creating a catalogue of textures and structures. I have started to layer up my photographs to create mash-ups of colour, texture and structures. By exaggerating the levels of my more structured photographs and removing

MA Practice One - Pecha Kucha Review

MA Practice One - Pecha Kucha Review

During our first Pecha Kucha Review, I delivered my presentation - I didn't stick to the timed presentation, after looking through everyones work in the group, everyone went over the time limit. We decided that it was too difficult to deliver such a short presentation and ask for feedback when none of us had any initial background knowledge on each others practice and previous work. It turned into more of a group tutorial and feedback session. Initially, I thought that I was

MA Practice One - Photographic Research

MA Practice One - Photographic Research

Since photographing textures and structures around manchester and identifying what it is that I am interested in, I realised that I needed a subject to focus on. Last year, on my BA course, I touched on looking at rocks, minerals and crystals. I decided that I would take a step back to look further into the textures and structures of this subject with a photographic and textural focus rather than an illustrative intention. Sourced From: Own Archive I am not exactly happy with

Sci-Art: Collaberative Experimentation

Sci-Art: Collaberative Experimentation

This week, during our Sci-Art session, we were put into groups and told to design an experiment, the experiment which had to involve an item that we had all brought from home. We had been told not to bring anything that had significant meaning to us as it may get damaged so - we took this literally. We designed an experiement we named, 'Resistance to Pressure', naturally, as creative students we designed this as an audience participation and almost performance piece. We told

Sci-Art: Attending a Sci-Art event

Sci-Art: Attending a Sci-Art event

Yesterday, I went to Manchester Museum expecting to find that the exhibition of Jim Naughtens Animal Kingdoms would have finished - I thought I'd explore anyway. Luckily, the exhibition had been extended! Sourced From: Own Archive I went with the expectation that the Animal Kingdoms exhibition was just a collection of preserved animals in glass jars, which was interesting enough for me. However, when I explored further I realised that the event was in fact a collection of pho

Sci Art: Initial Research and Inspiration

Sci Art: Initial Research and Inspiration

Whilst exploring Liberty on Regent Street, London over the summer, I came across some beautifully coloured silk scarves with patterns that were unrecognisable. I can only decribe the printed images on the silk as captured textures. I wanted to know how these designs had been produced and what was the inspiration. I couldn't find much in the way of designers named, 'Weston', until I came across the 'Richard Weston Studio'. Sourced From: Own Archive According to the website, We

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