End of Module Evaluation

The spread out nature of this module meant that I never felt I got into depths of it and it was often overshadowed by the shorter modules (visual skills, visual narratives and visual communication. I don’t feel like I explored and spent enough time drawing and making work in the tasks in as much depth as I could have done. Often I would not spend as much time on tasks and reading around a task/idea as I could have done. I don’t think this gave me a big disadvantage but I might have been able to get more from certain tasks if I’d invested myself in them more.

For about the first half of the module, my blogging was fairly up to date. After around the Christmas break I got fairly behind. Annoyingly, this coincided with tasks that had a fairly large impact on my practice and therefore I didn’t record thoughts and reflections as well as I could have done. Throughout, my blogs have usually been shorter and more simple than other studio practice posts. This feels ok as I feel I have been blogging as it comes to me - rather than forcing myself to write more than I feel necessary for this module.

Some tasks really changed the way I look at work and informed the way I make work - in particular the composition, line of sight and frame. I found the way ideas were put forward and shown as rules you can adhere to (or subvert) really helped as a way of creating a structure around which to help make pictures. In the past I would judged and made pictures on I how I felt - the vibe I got; rather than thinking more in depth and considering as I would now. The structure maybe helps me feel less out of my depth when composing an image.

While I quite like some of the work I have made in this module it doesn't feel like there are many stand outs; and nothing feels very final. I feel more positive about this that I would in perhaps one of the shorter modules as I think the work has been useful as a way of learning rather than very ‘good’ (learning through making, process over outcome) for example, the screen print and compositions tasks - which are perhaps my two least favourite things I’ve done are the two that I think I’ve learnt most from. A couple of times in this module I would complete a task and not feel it was fully resolved and only in the crits would I see what I should have done. Maybe this was because I didn’t spend enough time on the tasks at the time. After I would plan to re-do the task before forgetting to - often because I had my mind on other modules and therefore I probably didn’t get as much as I could have done from the tasks.

The module has helped me see how other peoples practices work and how and why it informs the work they make. This in turn has made me think about my own practice and how it informs the work I make and how changing bits of my practice will impact the pictures I make. The module has also made me think much more about the tools different artists use to build up an image and the use of these tools impact on the communication of a piece. The work I have made in visual language has often informed and impacted on work in other modules.