Today we had our group review with Glyn and Peter in order to discuss our project plans for BA8 and get some help/feedback on ideas. I really enjoyed today's discussion and received some positive comments in regards to my ideas for my main body of work as well as my more experimental side project. The second project brief will be posted at some point but I feel that it still needs some tweaking here and there so for now I thought I would share my main brief on here today since I want to get the ball rolling!
BA(Hons)
Illustration Year 3: Learning Agreement.
Project Proposal Form.
Course & Unit
number: ILLUSTRATION – BA8
Name: CHIARA MOTTIRONI
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1. Project Proposal
Title:
Nostalgia.
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2. Project Proposal Content:
For this project I plan to focus on the idea of
nostalgia. Memories are something personal, completely different and unique
to each person, being easily built up and down to specific times and places.
Working with collage allows me to create imagery through the building of
layers and it is this process that I thought would be interesting to link in
with my BA8 idea and explore. Having lived in England for 16 years now I
consider Norwich to be my home but going to Italy to visit my family always
leaves me with a feeling of nostalgia from when I was younger and this
crossover of memories of growing up half in Italy and the rest in England. It
is this mix-up of recollections that I propose to explore by what things I
remember more vividly than others, whether colours and sounds play a part and
it will be interesting to see how my memories will look once formed into a
piece of work.
All of these will come to fruition through a
series of images that will contain a mixture of traditional collage, although
I like the idea on incorporating embroidery and hopefully screen printing
too. I intend to carry this project out for the 16-week period since I find
that I work better when I can take my time and really push my work forwards.
Although given that it is still a big amount of time to focus on one idea,
alongside of this I will have a purely experimental project where I will be
able to try out new skills that will help to feed back into my main body of
work. It won’t have a specific outcome but if I feel that I have made
something in my main project, or vice versa, that can be applied to a
different idea e.g. a short film, a series of photographs etc. then there is
no reason for that not to happen.
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3. Context and Audience:
I would ideally see my body of work in a gallery
setting or space in which I could then adorn appropriately to link in with
the imagery itself. In regards to who the main audience would be, I think
that those of an older age group, possibly leaning towards 18 and above,
although anyone that is interested in the idea of nostalgia and how that
might be represented would, hopefully, enjoy looking at my work.
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4. Research Sources:
On the topic of how I will research into my subject I will start by
looking at a variety of artists that have created work in response to the
theme of memories or that have a nostalgic, psychological quality to them,
such as Maurizio Anzeri and George Tserionis. I plan to make more use of the
university library due to the huge book selection we have, this way I am able
to get a deeper understanding of information, as well as images, in regards
to specific artists that I am interested in. I will be looking through and
collecting old family photos in addition to more recent pictures that I have
taken whilst in Italy so that I am able to create a first hand collection of
imagery to work from and later develop. I’m also interested in looking at
films, which I feel create a sentimental atmosphere or evoke certain moods
visually. This is to help me consider my use of colours and placement when it
comes to my work.
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5. Learning Methodology:
The majority of my ideas and imagery will be generated from the photos
that I collect since they are my main focus point behind my idea. Alongside
this there will be lots of artist research relating to collage, memories and
anything else I feel is useful for my learning process because collage has
always been my preferred, and visually strongest method of working. This
is to give me a deeper and wider knowledge of other ways of working with
images that I can take into account to then explore and apply to my own
style. I feel that this way of creating illustrations is the easiest way for
me to get my ideas across but I don't hesitate to mix medias if I feel it is
appropriate.
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6. Work for Assessment:
I have found that it has taken me a very long time to find my right
way of working, I seem to work best by just diving straight in with my
research then once that's there I can dive in with the image making and just
keep creating visual work. Sometimes I can do my visual alongside my research
but it really depends on what I am looking at, either way I will be sure to
cut, arrange and glue my thoughts down, regardless of whether the idea is big
or small. Alongside this I plan to produce a body of work that clearly shows
my thought process and development of ideas, which then lead to my final
imagery for assessment that shows my take on the representation of nostalgia
and memory.
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7. Schedule of Work: (to include the deadline
for submission of assessment):
Be sure to keep on top of all of my work and keep an
online blog of my progress and reflective journal, being sure to update at
least once a day.
(Will add to this section once a time schedule has
been made)
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8. Resource requirements:
- Library to find books for first hand research.
- Personal photographs from home as well as looking
at old photographs I may find in stores, such as Looses, to practice with.
- Book myself into workshops for the print studios
so that I have enough time to make use of them.
- Printers in the Design Studio to print out final
work and also buy paper.
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