Fine Artist / Educator
Research
Throughout the course of my undergraduate degree, I completed multiple a number of research papers in both education and visual culture. Here you can find a selection of abstracts from these and links to each paper in full.
Maxine Greene and Education:
‘Part of teaching is helping people create themselves’
- Maxine Greene
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Maxine Greene is one of the most influential educationalists of our time. The above quote perhaps gives us some indication of her philosophy of education as well as her ideas regarding its’ purpose. She valued liberal education and experiential learning and believed that education wouldn’t change the world directly, but rather the people of the world who used what they had learned could then make the world a better place. For Greene all this required was imagination.
Undergraduate Thesis 'Artemisia Gentileschi; An Artist Who Showed the Renaissance Exactly What A Woman Could do':
Abstract:
From an early age she experimented with her own style and innovated it by adopting the techniques from other artists around her and incorporating them in her compositions. What set her apart from her contemporaries was the realism with which she painted. She had the remarkable ability to capture a dramatic moment and render it in the most theatrical way that pulled the viewer into the immediacy of the action.
‘I am not myself unless Some part of my body Is covered in paint. The more paint, the more cover, The more I am Artemisia. And even if its scrubbed away, There’s paint inside Pounding through my veins’
- Blood Water Paint by Joy McCullough
The Influence Of Japanese Art On The Work Of Claude Monet:
The stage was now set for Japanese artists to influence the style of French artists who were dissatisfied with the classical approach to art studied and practised in the ateliers. This influence would be later termed ‘Japonism”. The Impressionist movement would ultimately seek inspiration from the art of the Ukiyo-e, Hokasai and Hiroshige.
Why have there been no great Women Artists?:
When I was asked to read Linda Nochlin’s essay ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ I was both intrigued and puzzled to say the least. Of course, there have been great women artists………….Georgia O Keefe, Frieda Kahlo, Niki De Saint Paul, Tracey Emin? Then it hit me, are these women great artists, or simply famous artists? Are they women who produce great art as opposed to great women artists? Is there a difference between the titles of great artist and great master? At worst this title suggests an androcentric chauvinistic statement on the appreciation of art and a best a thought provoking statement which forces us to examine our understanding of what is great art?