Next Steps...

My focus for these next few weeks will be on developing a coherent piece for the Millbank exhibition in January. I feel that the work I displayed in the pop up show is the start of bringing works together into arrangements or conversations. I will continue a rigorous practice of making and experimenting with materials. Alongside this I will create mock-up installs to test different arrangements and meaning-making.

I specifically want to print, paint and draw on top of photographs, beginning by testing monoprint and woodcut onto a variety digital prints. My aim is bring the embodied mark onto the digital print to play with dualities of surface. I want to return to a practice of drawing with the idea of bringing my body more into the work. I would also like to apply a photographic light-sensitive solution such as silver nitrate to the surface of prints and incorporate photograms/lumen prints into the hand-made print.

My research will focus on Derrida's On Touching, as well as examining Julie Kristeva's works on 'abjection' with relation to the body. I will also continue to explore Phenomenology, pedagogical texts on Embodied Learning, and New Materialism.