Research Project Development in Art, Architecture and
Design
Valuing Women
Research
Project Aims
To gain an broad understanding of value
systems and how they relate to gender
To identify how portraits convey a
narrative
To expand knowledge on the purpose of the
self portrait
To identify feminist artists who use the
body, value systems and narrative
To identify my own value system
To demonstrate my analytical skills to
research values seen in my behaviour from onlookers
To explore this data in personal artwork in
a variety of media
To apply analysed data to my own textile
self portrait to articulate my values.
Research
Project Questions
How do value systems differ between
men/women, typically in a westernized culture?
How does a portrait indicate values and
characteristics of an individual?
How does an abstract portrait indicate the
values and characteristics of an individual?
How is a portrait made accurate and
positive, without being cloying?
Artist
Research Output
Nancy Spero workshop at City Lit. Done Artwork
– scroll
Guerrilla Girls at Whitechapel Gallery and Tate Artist Research folder and
Other feminist artists Exhibition book
Practice
based/led Research
Creation of Status Sketchbook – own
activity. Done Concertina sketchbook
Creation of Values Sketchbook – own
activity Concertina
sketchbook
Attendance at Expressive Printmaking class
– Portfolio of work
artist led workshop 18-21/10/16
Attendance at Shedio Art class (fortnightly) Sketchbook and portfolio
Attendance at Shedio Art class (fortnightly) Sketchbook and portfolio
Theoretical
Research
Attendance at Cultural Studies for Creative
Practitioners Personal notes
- The Self
11/10/16-13/12/16
Attendance at History of Portraiture class
at City Lit Personal notes
13/2/17-27/4/17
Attendance at Art, Politics & Society
12/1/17-2/2/17 Personal notes
Qualitative
Methods
Reflective writing – MA By Project: Valuing Women Online
blog
http://catherinemactaggart.blogspot.co.uk
Exhibition Book
Quantitative
Methods
Picasso exhibition. Database
Identify proportion of men/women depicted.
Reading
List
The Body, Chris Schilling, Oxford
University Press, 2016
Otherworlds, The art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith edited by Jon Bird. Reaktion Books, London 2003.
Essay - Imagining Otherworlds: Connection and Difference in the Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, Jon Bird p13-45
Otherworlds, The art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith edited by Jon Bird. Reaktion Books, London 2003.
Essay - Imagining Otherworlds: Connection and Difference in the Art of Nancy Spero and Kiki Smith, Jon Bird p13-45
Nancy Spero, Encounters, Joanna S Walker,
Ashgate Publishing, 2011
Yvette Russell http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/06/06/equality-luce-irigaray/#fn-14956-11
(Law lecturer, Queens University, Belfast) Accessed 12/10/16
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