The artwork submitted for assessment is part of a series titled ‘We are all Stardust,’ exploring materials derived from cosmic elements. They investigate the creative process with stardust through practice-based research, including meditation and storytelling about these ancient elemental materials. Most of these primordial elements found on earth are older than earth itself. They were once stardust floating in space, and through gravitational forces, were gathered up during the making of our earth.
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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.
Unit 2: 24 September 2024: Revisiting the Circle (Sacred Geometry)
Master of Arts Fine Art student uses elements of stardust from the periodic table to investigate interconnectedness and entanglement: Sacred Geometry, Circles as repeating patterns in nature, The Platonic solids
Unit 2: 23 September 2024: Artwork: Deep Time
Artist investigates interconnectedness and entanglement through the lens of deep time, primordial origins and making with stardust. The research methodology combines meditative journeying, channelling, making-with-stardust and making-about-stardust. Currently reading (and loving): Donna Haraway, Staying with The Trouble
Unit 2: 17 September 2024: Silent Crit
I’m pleased to have our first silent crit behind us. It’s a very vulnerable space to be in, to have to show the group a picture and not be able to explain anything about that piece. Having said that, it was interesting to see how our pieces would ‘hold up’ in a gallery environment whereContinue reading “Unit 2: 17 September 2024: Silent Crit”
Unit 2: 15 September 2024: Artwork: Making, Channelling and Meditative Journeying
Master of Arts Degree Practice-basead research: artist uses stardust elements from the periodic table to make art and replicate feelings of interconnectedness. We are all connected. We come from Stardust. The Stardust Manifesto
Unit 2: 9 July 2024: Tutorial with Caroline Wright
I had a really productive one-to-one tutorial with Caroline Wright: Reflections since last tutorial (if applicable):These are the things I keep returning to: The Periodic Table of Elements and their link to stardust. Gold (the element) which was forged in the hearts of dying stars. Geometric shapes as the building blocks of everything. Darwin’s Theory ofContinue reading “Unit 2: 9 July 2024: Tutorial with Caroline Wright”
Debbie New 