The theme for the first project you will undertake for your Foundation Programme is entitled:
‘Lie of the Land’This project is beginning of the Diagnostic Introduction to Art & Design Practices module, in which you shall be both working within a team and also producing your own personal work.
In preparation for this project you are required to prepare over the summer weeks, a body of research which shall support and launch the first project. It is essential that you complete the project in advance of Monday 26th September, so you have this resource ready to work with and so that you can collaborate with your team members.
In an A4 hard backed sketchbook you are to research the work, thinking, compositions and sources of inspiration of 5 land artists You can either choose the 5 artists from the list below or select any other land/environmental artists whose work you admire. This research must include your own views and opinions about the artists work you have selected. Opinions should include why you like the work and why you have chosen to include it as relevant research. Collected opinions and observations should be included in your sketchbook as hand written notes to support your visual information of drawings and photographs.
Make sure you make written reference all your research sources –journals, books, web links, TV programmes, exhibitions, libraries, galleries, locations etc.
If you cannot find enough information on a particular artist you may research the type of work that the artist has produced (for example: Land Art/Environmental Art).
Using the A4 sketch book, you should aim to produce 4 x ‘double page spreads on each of your 5 chosen artists. This means in total you should produce a total of 20 double page spreads.
( A double spread page is where you open the A4 sketch book completely flat and work across both pages, treating these as a single page and ignoring the ‘crease’ in the middle ).
Be creative in how you compose each double page spread and use a range of media – pencil crayons/pastels/paint/charcoal/graphite/ink, collage etc and consider the layout and composition of your text and images and create pages which are visually interesting and dynamic.
· Andy Goldsworthy
· Robert La Trobe
· Richard Long
· Robert Smithson
· Walter de Maria
· Sally Matthews
· Tony Easterby
· Alan Franklin
· Antony Holloway
· David Nash
· Kerry Morrison
· Ashish Ghosh
Take inspiration from the sketchbook pages as shown in the illustrations below.
Also for more inspiration on personal journals (sketch books) follow the link below: http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/sota/tracey/sketchbook.html
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