DEGREES UNEDITED

Sparking self initiated debate within the Degrees unedited blogs the blogger profiles are your port of call for in depth and individuating conversations on art practices surviving and thriving during studentship

The growing backlist of Blogger profiles from Degrees unedited

• We talk to Emma Phillips about her teleidoscopic focus on human characteristics and the notion of a blog as a tool to translate. Read on »

An artist delves in to the past to construct and ‘observe’ the state of everyday. In this lies a ritualistic act and we’re here to find out more. With a particular dive in to the notion of human choice Emma's work questions influence, its role in shaping character, and whether genetics really does fill in all the details.
Read and comment on Emma's blog »

• At the dawn of her third year at University for the Creative Arts, glass artist Gonny van Hulst tells us about responding to the city of London and approaching craft as a conceptual art form. Read on »

Working with glass is a means of dealing with a turbulent past. I've always been drawn to the random, chaotic, absurd and unfixed nature of urban life and the diversity it presents, especially for those who exist on the edge of society."
Read and comment on Gonny's blog »

• Graphic design supplied an impetus, as skateboarding provided public space for experimentation. Ryan Hughes continues the transformation with durable objects and textual intervention. Read on »

In 2008 Ryan started his BA in Fine Art at BIAD. His practice focuses on the notion of 'play', where skateboarding, graphic design and text are used as methods to reach a larger audience. Now he seeks to transform public spaces, using interactive objects and sign works, rendering them as more enjoyable places with additional models for experience.
Read and comment on Ryan's blog »

• Marion Piper, from carpet design to a downsized practice exploring the boundaries of paint as a versitile medium for creative truth. Read on »

"The subject of my work is place filled with experience, abstract space and colour sensation. During the first level of my course I worked in collage overloaded in abstract imagery. Then, in one project we produced the work of someone with a different identity..."
Read and comment on Marion's blog »

• Craig Hudson from University Campus Suffolk on the skills to learn, the ideas to express and how the human sculptural form embodies the materiality for both. Read on »

The human form is not always telling of its conceptual context yet Hudson's sculptures and his forthright explanation of their histories and personalities go beyond three-dimensional form. But how to tackle this head on, how to add or take away elements to or from works that rely on material process to 'stand alone' as objects in their own right?
Read and comment on Craig's blog »

• James Clarkson talks about the mid point and coalescence between artistic display and minimalist textual reflection. Read on »

The platform provided with blogging becomes something of a new field of relational display for James' work. From photographs illuminating structural domestic displays through to textual arrangements transferred to the screen, new moves are being made in the space between idea and reflection. During his bursary with S1 Artspace James tells us more.
Read and comment on James' blog »

• Mature student David Riley applies his microprocessor past to a visual future, engineering the final result within an experimental process known as art making. Read on »

An art process is something of an engineered course of action, fused by language inputted to something made, through carefully balanced models of communication. David Riley, the artist, arises from over thirty years of specialist experience and self-taught knowledge, the veracity of which invents an embedded and systematic creative practice.

So what happens after the duration of David's BA expires: does the 'system engineer' evolve to an artist having been taught 'how' for four years, or did he simply already know?
Read and comment on David's blog »

• Scottish born art student Kim Walker finds herself at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, diversifying her sound art practice between the US and her homeland. Read on »

"Consider audio from two pieces competing with one another and one becoming the dominant sound within a space." (Kim Walker, December 2009)
In this case sound is mirrored by architectural surroundings, reflecting dichotomies between one city and the next: but can two sides to one idea coalesce to make one practice? Read on and find out how Kim develops her practice in relation to 'alien' surroundings...
Read and comment on Kim's blog »

• Nathalie Bouleau Chabot on utilising the 'blogosphere' as a medium, with which to create avenues and ideas: sustaining her practice for graduation and beyond. Read on »

Nathalie permeates her practice with meditative ease. Here she discusses the duality in time spent mark making and reflections made or transformed through the 'medium' of the blogosphere. By retaining an inward and tactile quality to her practice, sustained by a concentrated length, her work looks towards a virtual and altered future.

How far can someone gaze through the matter at hand whilst still using it to tend to the here and now? Read and comment on Nathalie's blog »

• Thomas Darby discusses his 'objective structure' and how it moulds paradox and uncertainty in the pile up to degree show completion. Read on »

Thomas Darby collages with elements of paradox, evaluates his working structure within the technological sphere and emulsifies his artwork towards something resolute - but that is not the degree show 'result' - rather more the past, present and future all rolled in to one. There's something more metaphysical with how he approaches his work: I take this opportunity of conversation as a point of enquiry... read on!!
Read and comment on Thomas' blog »

• Bernice Wilson discusses writing styles, working environments and the dual character of the blog as a silent yet active listener. Read on »

The toils and tribulations of balancing both sides of the academic scales: Bernice Wilson discusses how she coincides visual practice and with written dissertation. In negotiating notions of 'self' by taking on different personae, she realises the potential of working space: whether virtual, private or shared.
Read and comment on Bernice's blog

• Christine Gray: Developing conversations, in which to forage and plan the next move. Read on

At the beginning of her MA in Participatory & Community Arts at Staffordshire University, Christine toils with working patterns, through conversations and within linguistic forms, finding her place beyond undergraduate study to present a new visual language. By way of corresponding to how artists interact with one another, she also explores how they relate to the 'outside-world': inevitably this contorts with the artist's own personae.
Read and comment on Christine's blog

• Victoria Coyle: Cutting & pasting practice from research and modelling a proposal statement.  Read on

Introducing Victoria Coyle, from Swansea as a designer to part-time research-based Fine Art practice at the Metropolitan University. In the final year of her BA, she discusses the balance between dissertation proposals, negotiations with subject and dealing with pre-graduation expectation: finding that using her previous experience in professionalism gives her new avenues in working as an artist today.
Read and comment on Victoria's blog

• Karen Howse onsite-responsive practice and negotiating the 'final-piece'. Read on »

Introducing Karen Howse, final year student of a two-year part time MA in Fine Art at University College Falmouth: residing in Launceston, North Cornwall the artist and mother of two spends her time in the locale of The Woods: finding what is to be found and then deliberating what she can do.
How does this relate to a research based practice?
And what if all that is produced is documentation of goings on?
Read and comment on Karen's blog

• Carolyn Shepherd in conversation about research-based practice. Read on »

Introducing Carolyn as she embarks on the final year of her degree at Wirral Metropolitan. Heavily research based, her site-specific practice replaces that of the written dissertation. So as she winds her way towards a 'with honours', are there similarities between her investigative practice and the research that that otherwise makes up a word-count?
Read and comment on Carolyn's blog

Submit yourself for profile, email: richard.taylor@a-n.co.uk

First published: a-n.co.uk October 2009