Scholarship – 2007
Printmaking
Examples of Candidate Work
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This submission tackled its topic with both humour and politic, critically addressing
identified issues through pictorial image making, media and process. In both the
workbook and portfolio it is clear there is a strong interest in this topic on the part of the
candidate, which gives the investigation an enthusiastic and engaged sensibility.
Use of media is systematically treated, food operating like traditional media, found image
blended with illustrative and pictorial composition, expressive management of
composition. There is a level of control apparent in the works on the portfolio that
reinforce and substantiate the exploration. Traditional print methods integrate in
interesting and appropriate forms with new media (food) on the portfolio.
The workbook provides another series of works that expand on the nature of the thinking
employed in the portfolio works. There is a sense of the performative present in the
investigations documented in the workbook. This sense of play is transported to the
portfolio in the treatment of subject matter, the interplay of motif, figure and object.
Appropriate technical expertise is employed. There is an experimental use of media that
purposefully relates to the subject and is key in expounding ideas.
Various images and objects from popular culture are employed as signifiers to assert
particular points-of-view/ contexts. These in turn have been manipulated into the
candidate's own vocabulary for investigating their topic.
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