Exploring memory, identity, and belonging.
Tuesday 9th January 2018 Curating the Digital Increasingly, we use our smart phones and other digital devices to capture and curate day to day life experiences. As a cacophony of digital activity moves to the centre of human life overwhelmed by digital interactions, digital space is the place where people spend the lion’s share of […]
Read more "Independant Study 1 – Research"Module: Independent Study 1 Research and Make ( 40 credit) level 6 Name: Michelle Wright Proposal & Context (what is the intended context of the proposal and what is the background thinking informing your decisions?): In North Wales there is a very clear link to the subject of Diaspora with the historical emigration to Patagonia […]
Read more "Independant Study 1 – Proposal"Tuesday 23rd January 2018 Summative Assessment Day. Reflective Statement This collection of work considers being decoupled from a homeland and the experience of dispersal that a subsequent journey of migration can bring. A reflection of an individual state of being and a sense of rootlessness and longing, indicates a sub-conscious social-political element relating to the […]
Read more "Independant Study 1: Studio Work"26th January 2018: Reflection I really enjoyed having the opportunity to work with Eli Acheson and the other people involved in this project. Being able to use my video skills for someone else has given me an increased feeling of confidence in the marketable skills that I have. The potential for future collaboration discussed with […]
Read more "Mum Mam Dumb Damn"I decided to apply for the One Minute Artists Moving Image Festival. One Minute Artists Moving Image Festival North Wales will take place in February 2018. The festival focuses on artists moving image within the duration of 60 seconds. One minute videos by  national and international artists will be screening throughout the weekend. Please check our […]
Read more "One Minute Film Festival"Saturday 14th October 2017 – International Museum of Slavery I visited the International Museum of Slavery in Liverpool to see the Ink and Blood Exhibition being held there as part of the Black History Month. Below are the pieces that caught my attention the most. Cotton Slave Adam and Cotton Slave Eve by Alice Kettle “Alice […]
Read more "Ink and Blood Exhibition"Â Introduction This was my first visit to Frieze London and I was a bit unsure what to expect. I knew that there were over 160 galleries exhibiting, however, I completely under estimated the sheer size of this exhibition and I can barely begin to imagine the extent of the organisation required to make such an […]
Read more "Frieze 2017"The Regional Print Centre’s entries to the 20:20 Print Exchange 2017 can be viewed here: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hot_bed_press/albums/72157663439985658 Through the Regional Print Centre, I am taking part in the 20:20 Print Exchange run by Hot Bed Press in Manchester. 20:20 Print Exchange started in 2009 as a project between Hot Bed Press in Salford and Red Hot […]
Read more "20:20 Print Exchange 2017"Viewed on Youtube. I began watching the Guggenheim Symposium: Keynote: Curatorial Practice in a Globalized World and I was particularly interested in the views of Sara Raza and Pablo Leon de la Barra and found that this experience gave me much to reflect upon and consider in relation to my Dissertation topic of Diasporas, Loss and […]
Read more "Curatorial Practice in a Globalized World"Sunday 24th September 2017 Rubber and Rust For the third year Induction Project, I created a six page Artist book using The Rubber and Rust Prints bringing them together using collage. My book is bound using cable ties. Saturday 23rd September 2017 Today I decided to focus on creating rust prints from the pizza tray […]
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Michelle Wright, Fine Artist 