The Latent Image: 2012

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

'RENDERING SPACE' | 1st Year Workshop

Mark Colgan

Etaoin Doyle

Any given space is measurable and limited, but the possibilities of expression within that space are immeasurable and limit-less. This is the foundational basis of our ‘Rendering Space’ workshop. We take any given space, small or large - a room, a street, a building - and we produce a variety of individual representations and expressions of it and from it. The workshop explores how students visually interact with their immediate & familiar environment and express that limited space within given time restraints. The workshop is developed for 12-20 students, each closely negotiating the same space in a short allocated timeframe. On this first, experimental workshop the space is the familiar environment of the Studio/Classroom, the timeframe is 2 hrs.

Ciara Keogh

Derek Lynch

Ciara Keogh

The teaching process is delivered as follows: A short lecture about issues of space and its expression - looking at how several artists have expressed the same space. This brief lecture prompts ideas & approaches, which open up the notion of how many diverse representations can be made within a very restricted environment. This is followed by the allocation of a single room, building or a small compact outdoor area. From within this room – this limited space - students are encouraged to express, in their own diverse style, the environment itself through the creation of three inter-connected images. While the workshop places physical, spacial, time constraints and supposed creative limitations on the student, as well as a degree of pressure to produce, it fully encourages them to rethink and negotiate the space in a new visual way.

Aisling McCurtin

Lee Murray

Gemma Nicholson

Vicky Mooney

Etaoin Doyle

Holly Skelton

Rose Murphy

Vicky Mooney

Gemma Nicholson

Julia Delatowska

Rachel Coady

Richard Sheehan

Etaoin Doyle

Rachel Brooks

Claire Daly

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

I Am My World | 1st Year Theme-Based Project

The subjective document is always, in some respects, a mirror image. Through this small task, notions of ‘the self’ are re-examined and one’s own immediate enviornment is explored.

First year students have adopted several approaches to creating subjective documents. Some are intimate and introspective accounts - showing us inner and private worlds. Some are consciously challenging notions of the self through the ‘act’ of self portraiture. Here, issues of cultural identity, anxiety and loss are addressed as are the self-affirming notions of self through friendships, relationships and family.

What is presented, in this selection, is a broad expression of students’ present and past experiences, perspectives and perceptions.

The work was selected by a ‘jury’ of 2nd year students who made choices of the work on two levels – firstly on aesthetic merits, secondly the work which, for them, best connects to the theme. Presented here is a selection of the jury’s favourites.