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Wednesday Lecture | Louise Giovanelli | 20th of February

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Louise Giovanelli Louise Giovanelli was born in London in 1993. She studied her degree at the Manchester School of Art 2012-2015 and then at Städelschule, Frankfurt Am Main. I am not going to sit her and write loads of facts about her I will paste in the notes I took during this lecture. I was captivated by Giovanellis practise because it was fresh, it was easy to relate to as an Art student myself. It is great that on this course most Wednesdays we get the chance to meet these individuals who talk about their work with such professionality. It is amazing to see however, it creates a barrier between the person who is giving the talk and the students. The artist to me can feel like they are superior and there is a loose connection there. That doesn't necessarily mean their work is bad or they aren't interesting. However, I felt with Louise Giovanelli there was a good connection between artist/lecturer to the students who were sat in the auditorium. For me it certainly enco...

Wednesday Lecture | Jasmir Creed | 6th of February

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Jasmir Creed Jasmir Creed is an artist most recently based in Liverpool, Manchester being her hometown. Studying Fine Art at Wimbledon College of Art in London. She is very much attracted to and inspired by transient places. From what I gathered about Creed she admires the short amount of time a person is in such a place but really how much that area is apart of their lives. As for instance, standing waiting for a train in a station. A pretty mundane act, repeated undoubtedly by millions. So what does this person really take in? What do they notice? Has it just became a blur a meaningless act of routine and form? There is a strong sense disorientation in her work through the use of perception and depiction, sometimes leaving you feel alienated in this big world that surrounds us. Concrete buildings, tall skylines, roads that stretch for miles and pavements that are forever winding and bending. Jasmir Creed herself claims that she is interested in the psycho-geography and that ...