A warm welcome to our new  BA Contemporay Art Practice students. Please complete the Project Brief below  in time for your first week of classes. 

We invite you to undertake a summer project to share with us when you start on your BA3 Degree Programme in September.

The project is in 3 stages:

1. In a word doc-tell us about your 3 most influential artists and why they are important to you. Image/s and 150 words for each.

2. Create a piece of work/s in any material in response to one of the following:

a. A significant life event in the year 2025

b. A concept, theory or exhibition you feel connected to or have enjoyed in the year 2025

c. A place, site or environment that resonates with you or has some special significance

Your work can be in any form, size or format as long as you can it share it with the group in September.

3. Here are some books and links to get you familiar with some important texts that you will be hearing about over the next few months.

Reading List Examples

·   Albers, Josef (1963, 2013 edition) Interaction of Color

·   Berger, John (1972) Ways of Seeing

·   Stiles, Kristine(1996)Theories and Document of Contemporary Art: a sourcebook of artists’ writings

·   Rosenthal, Mark (2003) Understanding Installation Art: from Duchamp to Holzer

·   Batchelor, David (2000) Chromophobia

·       Bennett, Jane (2010) Vibrant Matter, A Political Ecology of Things

·       Bachelard, Gaston (2014)The Poetics of Space

·       Turkle, Sherry (2011) Evocative Objects: Things We Think With

·       Tanizaki, Junichero (1977) In Praise of Shadows

·       D'Alleva , Anne (2005) Methods and Theories of Art History

·       Harman, Graham (2018) Object-Oriented Ontology- A New Theory of Everything.

·       Ingold, Tim (2015) The Life of Lines

·       Krauss, Rosalind (1977) Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America: https://www.professores.uff.br/ricardobasbaum/wp-content/uploads/sites/164/2019/04/1c_Krauss-Notes-on-the-Index-pt1.pdf

For Your Interest: There are many artists and collaborations working in solo, site specific, environmental, exterior & interior installation and socially engaged formats. Artists work in response to many stimulate including their given environment/community-based contexts/personal areas of creative interest/their political stance/. 

Agnes Martin – 'Beauty is in Your Mind' |TateShots: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=902YXjchQsk

Jeremy Deller  http://www.jeremydeller.org/

Mary Corse   http://www.lehmannmaupin.com/exhibitions/2012-02-02_mary-corse#3

Larry Bell   http://whitecube.com/artists/larry_bell/

James Turrell   http://jamesturrell.com

Dalziel + Scullion   http://www.dalzielscullion.com

De Wain Valentine   http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2014/06/dewain-valentine-at-almine-rech/

Jane + Louise Wilson   http://www.303gallery.com/artists/jane-and-louise-wilson

Robert Irwin   http://www.pacegallery.com/artists/211/robert-irwin

Christo & Jeanne Claude   http://christojeanneclaude.net