Formative feedback
Student name | Clara Maciulis | Student number | 513759 |
Course/Unit | Drawing 1: Drawing skills | Assignment number | 5 |
Type of tutorial | (eg video/audio/written) | Written |
Overall Comments
Congratulations on completing the Drawing Skills unit, Clara. Your part 5 personal project is well considered, explorative, but with intention. You’ve produced a bold, dynamic series of work, culminating your ideas but allowing room to push and pursue things further in your learning going forward. Well done. You are allowing your research to inform your work and as a result can contextualise your own practice.
Feedback on assignment
Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills, Quality of Outcome, Demonstration of Creativity
The yoga mat drawings are process rather than product based, the activity of drawing being of central importance, when you used the charcoal on your hands and feet this connected you to your work and subject matter. It may be worth considering video if performance pieces are something you wish to pursue further, have a look at some artists such as Marina Abramovic, the Yves Klein Anthropometry paintings and even consider the likes of Cindy Sherman and Sherin Neshat as artists to explore in more detail.
I am curious to explore the work of these performance artists. The yoga mat series happened rather spontaneously, out of an urge to express the feeling of the movement during the yoga asana directly. But I am curious where this new path can go.
Your flip book animation is another innovative piece, I enjoyed being able to interact with your work. This whole submission allows me the viewer to really engage. It is a simple work but successful.
Thank you!
There are some deeper issues beginning to be explored around feminism/post feminism in your work. I can see the beginnings of exploration about the female image in your collage works. Ensure to read or view the series on youtube of John Berger’s Ways of Seeing, also read Naomi Wolf’s The Beauty Myth. Review dadaism and the history of collage. Look at artists such as Hannah Hoch and Barbara Kruger.
Happy to have so many things to look at and directions to explore! Collage is definitely something I would like to continue experimenting with.
Again the action of unfolding your concertina sketchbook involved me the viewer in the work, in the same way I unrolled the yoga mat drawings and flipped through the sketchbook. You executed this as a continuous line drawing and the result is successful.
In this body of work you have experimented with scale and media. There was a danger of becoming illustrative but you avoided it. You’ve reigned in your ideas, sticking with a singular theme and refining your ideas by using your research to inform. As mentioned before you have the beginnings of something to explore and experiment further with.
This makes me so happy to read!
Sketchbooks
Demonstration of technical and Visual Skills, Demonstration of Creativity
You continued your development and understanding of the human form in your sketchbooks. Looking at stance, movement and gesture. Continue to work in your sketchbooks right up to the point of submission for assessment.
Research
Context, reflective thinking, critical thinking, analysis
You’ve selected relevant artist’s work to look at, reflecting about what you like and think works well. Continue to push and delve deeper with your critical thinking as you progress through your studies. Have a look at the book How to write about contemporary art. Great that you are allowing your research to inform your practice, continue to do this, learn from doing.
Learning Logs or Blogs/Critical essays
Context, reflective thinking, critical thinking, analysis
Within your artist’s statement you mention you are after a personal drawing experience so although you use yoga as inspiration your work is not about yoga. I think you have been successful in your attempts bringing depth and meaning to your drawings, they are visceral and as you refine and define your ideas further they too will develop.
Your blog is easy to follow and your images clear. You are beginning to focus your writing and research, honing in on the important elements. Continue to aim for clear, concise, relative blog posts about your work, be the critic and the artist.
Suggested reading/viewing
Context
I have mentioned some further artists and reading within the body of the report for you to look at in your own time. This is just the beginning of your learning journey so continue exploring and experimenting. Keep working at the technical drawing skills, learn the rules first and then you can break them!
Yes! still a lot of work here 🙂
Pointers for the next assignment
- Reflect on this feedback in your learning log.
- Keep up your sketchbook practice right up to the point of submission.
- Consider how best to present your work for assessment.
Please inform me of how you would like your feedback for the next assignment. Written or video/audio
Congratulations on completing the unit!
Tutor name | Joanne Mulvihill-Allen |
Date | 19 August 2017 |
Next assignment due | N/A |
This last assignment report for this course by my tutor Joanne Mulvihill Allen is so encouraging! I felt a little anxious about sending in an assignment with much experimentation and not really any outstanding final piece, so I am very happy that exploring different scales and media was recieved positively. And this report offers a lot of suggestions, so many new exciting artists to discover and paths to explore- I am really excited to continue !