PLATFORM
Realise a new project by identifying a platform or mode of distribution that will project your work into new territory.
How would you like others to come into contact with your practice? What medium is suggested by the themes, methods, or contexts of your research? Do you have personal ‘defaults’ that can be either emphasized or challenged? What opportunities could be opened up by engaging with a new or different platform? What formal and conceptual decisions would be dictated by it? You could choose an existing digital platform, a mode of print publication and distribution, or a specific (and non-speculative!) form of presentation or exhibition. Or something else entirely. For example, you might find a call for submissions to a conference or publication related to your practice.
Remember that you’re making a new piece of work, not just ‘reformatting’ an existing one to fit a new platform. A critical engagement with any medium will always have an impact on the shape and direction of your practice.
Blue Shop Cottage Works on Paper submission
Blue Shop Cottage is a gallery and events space for selling original artwork by emerging artists and creative learning through talks, events and workshops. Our fundamental belief is that by supporting artists we will help them and the local community here in Camberwell to grow. We think it’s important to bring people together physically to open discussion, collaboration and learning giving life to new endeavours, relationships and ideas.
To the Works On Paper submission I submitted the 4 shrubs seen in the images above.
Flora Dorian is an artist based in London who works across multiple disciplines, including painting, drawing and installation. Her work addresses nature and humanity and the often complicated relationship between the two. She maintains a strong focus on materiality, speaking to the place of plants in an urban setting through a considered medium use.
Shrubs is an ongoing investigation into the complicated relationship between humans and nature. Drawing reference from classic botanical illustration and contemporary installation artists exploring a similar theme, the aim of the project is to invite the audience to consider their own interactions with nature. Papers material ability to be at once delicate and strong makes it the right choice for the shrubs because it emulates and exaggerates form. These sculptures are made of miss-prints of a book about plants I self published a few years ago; this cyclical production is important to the works.
Site viewing.
Audience interaction is key to moving this work forward so I have been looking into possible sites to house the project. This old church in Stoke Newington is an interesting space with high ceilings, stained glass windows and brick arches.