I found her work
to be interesting in its origin, as opposed to its manifestation. She admits
that her paintings are poor and I have to agree, they are not lacking in
character or life but in simple aesthetics; the reason for this being that she
had not painted in years. Her work ‘Begin Again’ was created after finishing a
position she had held for a long time at a certain gallery (which name escapes
me) she decided to pick up her brush once again in an attempt to fall back in
love with painting.
In the lecture
she said that, “self doubt is common place in the making of art” and although I
find this to be very true for me at present, I was greatly hoping that that would
disappear with time. However, throughout my first term of University I have
only been presented with a handful of artists that ooze self assurance, though on
reflection I believe this to be entirely false. Creating art is a difficult and
challenging business and when one does not question their process, technique,
purpose etc. how can they really create something artful at all? Without the
presence of doubt how can someone discover the truth? It is frustrating to only
present questions with no straightforward answer, but isn’t that what art is
all about?
She spoke a lot
about things that inspire her, for example, ‘Three Guineas’ by Virginia Woolf and ‘The Eye’s Mind: Bridget Riley’ by Robert Kudielka. Her points of
interest in the lecture bled together at times, jumping from “denarritarisation”
to “Picasso is so sexy” to how “females represent nature and males represent culture”!
Overall I felt that when she answered questions at the end of the lecture she
was far easier to listen to.
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