Getting back on track.

My tutorial with Imogen went quite well.  Detailed feedback on how to refine what I have written.

Notes of Tutorial – Imogen Racz, Cathy MacTaggart

Wednesday 6 February 2019

I saw Imogen on 6 February 2019 for feedback on my essay.  

Generally speaking I need more discursive text.  The first paragraph can be split into 3.  Refer to Women, Art & Power by Linda Nochlin.  First sentence expands into a paragraph that refers back to title. Second sentence becomes 2^ndpara, explains the subject and outlines what the essay will do, and what it will not do.  Third sentence becomes 3^rdpara, identifies what, explain their importance for analysis and give examples.  

Expand how women are sidelined, not by being not present, but under represented, and represented in a restricted range of ways.  Women are sidelined – via women’s technology – demonstrate how I represent them, and their status in appropriate materials.  

Move printmakers paragraph. 

Sampler definitions – include middle class/working class issues.  Explain partiality of quotes – explain when they are inadequate and why. Look at Lucy Worsley/Jane Austen book. Meek, mild, obedient.  How they received education – what subjects; use of stitch types to tell stories/narrative; embodied control. Learning and embodying the right things. Partial definition for working class. Visible and cultural.  Describe what education was.  Fit to the broader cultural situation.  

Look at Leopold Egg. Define a woman in relation to a man. Man needed to validate a woman. Find evidence.  

Marginalised history of women.  Marginalised history practice of embroidery.  Yet it comes with symbolism.  Who is reading about embroidery.  Who is making?  Closed code – culturally significant to those who can read it.  

Hal Foster The Creative Fallacy.  Include Dormer (already written a bit about him – likely to fit in Making).  Include migration – hopes of migrants – bell hooks. Jeffries Reinventing Textiles. Maharaj. Christine Checinska – Crafting Difference.  Jean Fisher – Diaspora in Kobena Mercere.  Establish how/why black cleaners are overlooked.  

Actions:  

CMT to rewrite intro – more discursive.  Work into quotes in details.  C1000 words

List educational issues. Pull out and discuss.

Also:  I wrote to Dagenham Library about exhibition space and have had no response.  So I went to William Morris Gallery to enquire personally about exhibiting there, as my work has a good political and arts & crafts fit with their purpose. The Customer Service Assistant was contemptuous and disdainful, although the volunteers gave me a name and email address to write to.  The following day I wrote in, and have had no response.

I’ve seen an art competition with Coventry’s Peace and Reconciliation department, which offers a 4 week exhibition and residency mid summer for the winner.  I’ll enter and see what happens, as this might be a good venue for exhibition.

Otherwise I don’t have any more ideas for an exhibition venue.  I find the concept of a solo show to be energy sapping.