Artist Researcher Debbie New shares insights from her Master of Arts (Fine Art) Degree Practice-based research on interconnectedness and entanglement through making art with and about stardust.
The overarching message conveys that all beings are connected, as we are all made from cosmic materials, emphasizing unity in existence.
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Unit 2: 22 November 2024: Artwork: The Circle (3)
This artwork by Fine Artist Debbie New is a materials investigation into working exclusively with 24 carat gold, appreciating its peaceful aesthetic paired with white. It investigates gold’s cosmic primordial origins from neutron star explosions and its presence in our bodies and various celestial bodies, emphasizing our connection to stardust through evolutionary processes.
Unit 2: 11 October 2024: Artwork: Serenity
The artist documents the creation of a piece influenced by meditation and moonstone, utilizing stardust to inform their practice-based research. By channeling energy from the moonstone, they aim to enhance their artwork, drawing on its unique elemental properties as an anchor. A video accompanies this exploration.
All Time Reads
I am keeping a log of my all time references/reading since this documents my research journey and makes it easier to refer back to reading that I might wish to consult again. I will therefore update this text from time to time: Alaimo, S (2012) States of Suspension: Trans-corporeality at Sea, ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in LiteratureContinue reading “All Time Reads”
Unit 2: Week 1: 19 June 2024: Testing Your Boundaries Worksheet Q&A (preparing for PPP)
entioned in the introductory presentation of the unit. This will help you start to map, evidence and manage the journey over the next 24 weeks. It will be important for you to remember to allow time to make work in an open and enquiring way, as well as place your ideas within a contemporary context.Continue reading “Unit 2: Week 1: 19 June 2024: Testing Your Boundaries Worksheet Q&A (preparing for PPP)”
11 June 2024: Practice-based Research: Investigation 3 (The Circle)
Since the start of my MA Course, or more specifically since I began researching the topic of interconnectedness and entanglement, I have been meditating more consistently than ever before. During these meditation sessions I’ve started noticing various events and happenings: sometimes behind my closed eyes, I see swirling colours. Sometimes a deep forest green, orContinue reading “11 June 2024: Practice-based Research: Investigation 3 (The Circle)”
Unit 1: Week 22: One-to-one Tutorial with Dr Michele Whiting
I had another wonderful one-to-one tutorial with Michele Whiting. I find that one-to-one contact time with supervisors is where I get the most out of this course. It is fantastic to receive one-to-one feedback and advice that is tailored to me, my artwork and my research focus. Overall feedback notes from tutorial discussion I spentContinue reading “Unit 1: Week 22: One-to-one Tutorial with Dr Michele Whiting”
Unit 1: Week 20: Practice-based Research: Investigation 2
When Things Go Wrong: Some art pieces fail abysmally. But I guess that’s part of the point of the Practice-based research process. This piece entitled ‘Metatron’s Cube’ forms part of my investigations into whether, when using elemental materials* and/or when making art around the theme of interconnectedness, this makes the artist feel more connected. I startedContinue reading “Unit 1: Week 20: Practice-based Research: Investigation 2”
Unit 1: Week 19: Documenting Practice (Sound)
I’ve filmed a fair amount of my process for various presentations, but I’ve never really paid much attention to the sounds in my studio or the sounds of the making. This was an interesting element – something I might consider when making future videos of my progress/practice.
Unit 1: Week 19: Ideas after Asynchronous Seminar
The provocation “Artistic practice is inherently uncertain, the whole process being a kind of faltering journey from there being nothing to there being something. If it was possible to lay out a set of ideas and tools that would fit together easily to comprise a piece of work then not only would art be aContinue reading “Unit 1: Week 19: Ideas after Asynchronous Seminar”
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