Walking in Rome, after Television Drawings; series of 20 works of watercolor on painting
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-CW4
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Old College Gallery, Aberystwyth University
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- August
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- Walking in Rome after Television Drawings disrupts static constructs of ‘landscape’ which refers to a view from a singular position, in order to establish an alternative approach which thinks of ‘landscape’ as a phenomenological experience: not to investigate either the object or the subject, either the world or the mind, but to investigate their interrelationships. These paintings were created in a combined process of walking though the urban centre of Rome, together with an on-going study of television images though drawing and painting processes, then developed at scale, with water-colours, a traditional material for ‘landscape’ painting in the studio at the British School in Rome. This phenomenological approach to ‘landscape’ painting was fundamental to a Leverhulme Artist in Residence project with Professor John Wylie, in which Massumi’s notion of ‘Lived Abstraction’ was explored, resulting in the co-authored publication Eye opener: Drawing Landscape Near and Far (2018) [REF2;32-CW1]. In previous research Webster has deconstructed ‘landscape’ though living out in the environment for extended periods during her Arts Council’s Creative Wales project, In Transit. Research insights are based on the testing and development of new approaches in regard to ‘landscape’ painting, which challenge the established constructs by introducing phenomenological methods and painting practices. In this the relationship between looking ‘at’ and being ‘in’, are re-thought through vertical and horizontal painting practices; working on the vertical surface of the wall, where the painted mark is at the end of an outreached gesture as a distanced ‘perceived’ object (Merleau-Ponty), and working ‘in’ and ‘on’ the horizontal plane of the floor, where, painting sits within the territory of ‘being’. Dissemination: Old College Gallery, Aberystwyth University, August September 2017
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- Non-English
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