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CREATIVE WORKS
Photography 3.3: Major Project
Open Call ART.M, Funchal, Madeira, July 2024
A Walk Through my Artistic Process
Learning New Skills
Practical Knowledge
Critique of Creative Works March 2024
Corruption
Major Project – Test Pieces #01 – Corruption
Album Images
Major Project – Test Pieces #02 – Album Images
Major Project – Test Pieces #03 – Album Images
Liminal Test Pieces as a Homage to Jo Spence
External Facing Project
Collaboration
External project early thoughts
Developing proposal and finding partner
Update and new approach
My collaboration in hindsight at half-year
Further insights into collaboration beyond the half-year of the 3.2 unit
Collaboration #1
Collaboration #2
Collaboration #3
Collaboration #4
Collaboration #5
Planning a new work
Test photos from graveyards
Materials
How to Communicate my Ideas
Bartholomew’s Journey
Playing With Scans
Medical Scans as Art
Rebecca in Pictures
Test pieces 3 and 4
Corruption in the Body and in the Artwork
Further test pieces month 6
Further test pieces month 7
Further test pieces month 8
Liminal test pieces
Liminal test pieces #2
Liminal test pieces #3
Liminal test pieces #4
Liminal test piece #5
Liminal test pieces #6
RESEARCH & REFLECTIONS
Reading Lists
Why is there a need to take photographs of the ill, the dying and the dead?
How Literal Does Childhood Cancer and Death Have To Be?
The Dying Brain
Melancholy
The Past, History and Memory
Boxes
Symbolism of Death
Feedback on final Level 2 Unit
What is the Difference Between the Death of a Child and the Death of a Parent?
Barthes revisited and the photograph as death to come
Metonymy and the Photograph
How is Death Portrayed in Visual Art
Research Methods in the Arts
Reflection on my Project after Sontag and Leibovitz
Western Attitudes Toward Death
Death and Memorial in Scotland
Liminality
Grief when close to death
Death as a Taboo
Post-mortem photography
Folklore and Death
Overexposure
Practice-based art research
The Me in My Project: Reflection and Feedback
Art and Corruption
The Backward Gaze
COURSEWORK
Photography 3.1: Practice and Research
Introduction
Course Descriptor
Assessment requirements
Reflection – Exercises 1 and 2
Commentary on my Practice – Exercise 3
Project 1: Developing a Plan
Project planning
Reflective commentary
Tutor feedback
Barthes Camera Lucida
Project 2
Review of project plan #2
Reflective Commentary #2
Forget Me Not: Photography and Remembrance – Geoffrey Batchen
Tutor feedback #2
Project 3
Project plan review #3
Reflective Commentary #3
About Looking – John Berger
Photographs and the Sound of History – Elizabeth Edwards
Tutor feedback #3
Project 4
Project plan review #4
Reflective commentary #4
Tutor feedback #4
Project 5
Project plan review #5
Reflective commentary #5
Midpoint review
Tutor feedback #5
Project 6
Project plan review #6
Reflective commentary #6
Progress review against learning outcomes
Tutor feedback #6
Project 7
Project plan review #7
Reflective commentary #7
Progress review #7 against learning outcomes
Tutor feedback #7
Project 8
Project plan review #8
Reflective commentary #8
Progress review against learning outcomes #8
Tutor feedback #8
Project 9
Project plan review #9
Reflective commentary #9
Project 10
Reflective commentary #10
Photography 3.2: Context and Audience
Feedback point 1
Project plan #1
Reflective commentary #1
Tutor feedback #1
Feedback point 2
Project plan #2
Reflective commentary #2
Feedback #2
Feedback point 3
Project plan #3
Reflective commentary #3
Feedback #3
How to take feedback?
Feedback point 4
Project plan #4
Reflective commentary #4
Feedback point 5
Project plan #5
Reflective commentary #5 half-year
Feedback point 6
Project plan #6
Reflective commentary #6
Feedback #6
Feedback point 7
Project plan #7
Reflective commentary #7
Feedback point 8
Project plan #8
Reflective commentary #8
How feedback helps me to reconsider my work
Feedback point 9
Project plan #9
Reflective commentary #9
Feedback point 10
Reflective commentary at end of assignment 10
Photography 3.3: Major Project
Project 1: Reflecting and Planning
Exercise 1: Reviewing and Situating Your Practice
Exercise 2: Ethics
Exercise 3 – Defining and Planning
Exercise 4: Peer Support
Research Task – Graduate Case Study: Jane Weinmann
Feedback Point 1
Project 2: Looking Forwards and Outwards
Work in Progress, Reflection and Planning
Research Task – Graduate Case Study: Sarah-Jane Field
Project 3: Momentum and Engagement
Exercise 1&2 – Peer Critique and Reflection
Exercise 3 – Creative Risks
Exercise 4 – Self Care
Research Task – Graduate Case Study: Anna Sellen
Project 4: First Edit
Exercise 1: Checking Your Plan
Exercise 2: Materials and Spaces
Exercise 3: Publications and Contacts
Reflective Commentary
Project 5: Mid-point Review
Exercise 1 – Feedback
Exercise 2 – Presentation
Exercise 3 – Networking and Promotion
Research Task: Case Study Elizabeth Woodger
Project 6: Next Steps
Exercise 1: Feedback
Exercise 2: Learning Outcomes
Exercise 3: Editing
Exercise 4: Your Promotional Strategy
Project 7: Major Project Edit
Exercise 1: Learning Outcomes
Exercise 2: Project Plan / Promotional Strategy
Exercise 3: Image Sequence
Reflective Commentary
Promotion of Work
ARTISTS & EXHIBITIONS & TALKS
Further Thoughts on Residency
Review of my Artist’s Residency
Artist’s Residency Collemacchia
Photography Exhibitions 2nd Feb 2024
Cajal Embroidery Project: In Celebration of Neuroscience
Counted – Scotland’s Census 2022
Jo Spence
A Brief History of Burial Grounds
Third-party work with Pfizer: A success story
Revisiting Artists in the Field of Loss, Grief and Death
WRITTEN WORK
Glossary
Literature Review
Literature Review draft 1
Literature Review draft 2
Literature Review draft 3
Dissertation
Dissertation Proposal
Dissertation outline
Making sense of my research
Theoretical Framework
ASSESSMENT
Photography 3.1: Practice and Research
Creative Choices for Assessment version i
Creative Choices for Assessment version ii
Photography 3.2: Context and Audience
Creative choices for assessment
Photography 3.2 Context and Audience Reflection After Assessment
Photography 3.3: Major Project
Learning Outcomes
Photography 3.1: Practice and Research (PH6PAR) – Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
Photography 3.2: Context and Audience (PH6CAA) – Aims, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
Photography 3.3: Major Project (PH6MPT) – Aims, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria
Personal Development
Skills Development
Planning
Creative Decisions
TEAMWORK
OCA Photography 3.1 Peer Group
OCA Photography 3.1 Group Work
OCA Photography Scotland Group
Dialogue for Artists – Imagining Imaging
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