Transcript SCHOLARSHIP - Selwyn College, Auckland

SCHOLARSHIP
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Uses Photography as it’s main focus (theme & subject). Intelligent understanding of framing
& the concepts behind photography.
Research questions are clear - questioning the position of photography,& appropriate artist
selection & reference. Shifts that are made; colour, black & white, material, medium,
analogue to digital, relate strongly to specific shifts in concept – there is a logic to choices
made.
The restraint in the use of colour is astute; colour is tactically employed. Text is used both as
a visual device and a tool/ element in conceptual thought process. This device is not reliant
on the text to communicate alone, but rather acts as an image as well as text.
Conventions of photography are employed to transport concept with a broad range of
pictorial devices employed; these are well adhered to, ie the candidate is aware of how
aperture/ shutter speed can convey ideas. This is a strength – it is an informative
relationship.
Again, the candidate documents installation/ performative aspects with understanding that
the outcome operates as an image, and is in effect about the picture.
There is a consistency in the continual questioning of media and its relevance to the overall
premise. The fact that this portfolio keeps moving is a real success in unfolding and
extrapolating complexity of concept, eg. on board two there are 5 options explored that
each build and broaden the dialogue about the investigation; a criticality is employed in
deciding what to take forward.
The last work – the performative aspect (burning); the act of burning is dealt with succinctly,
and links back to the notion of the artefact.
The workbook highlights the integration of artistic models and practice, and includes key
ideas and concepts of relevance. The selection of work for the portfolio is well chosen; 5the
portfolio is visually coherent and fluent.
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The workbook highlights the
integration of artistic models
and practice, and includes
key ideas and concepts of
relevance.
The selection of work for the
portfolio is well chosen; the
portfolio is visually coherent
and fluent.
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Outstanding Scholarship
This lays out a strong proposition immediately on board one and continues to
isolate and draw on a number of intelligent and interesting solutions throughout.
The candidate is completely engaged at all times; testing, trialing, making decisions,
editing their own practice. There is a high level of drawing facility employed; ideas
are explored, analysed and problem solved through the establishment of a drawn
language.
The candidate utilises established practices of illustration and painting related to
pictorial structure/ space, sequencing (time), format of finished work, technique,
conventions of fantasy and New Surrealism. These references are intrinsic to the
works and are clearly understood by the candidate. There is clear understanding of
how to manipulate the illustration factor, through inside/ outside frames, pop-ups,
etc. The works move intelligently between illustration and the structure of the
paint. When the candidate moves out of the frame, they do so meaningfully.
Subject matter is constructed by the candidate, involving both a photo shoot where
they directed their own subject and further innovation through drawing. Narrative
is used to drive formal decisions and to inform the pictorial enquiry, for example, a
woman as a character in a world, of trees and animals, and a filmic set of
relationships that are subject to influences that occur in the world. This allows an
interpretative quality to come through, akin to storytelling through the repetition of
a central character, emphasising the sequential aspect.
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The workbook enriches the study. Drawing
solves its pictorial problems/ it plans for/
and engages in other possibilities.
Drawing is used as a process of invention
and discovery and the paintings are a
synthesis of this process (drawing is used
at times as a kind of doodle implicating
ideas of memory and fantasy).
There is a real engagement in the act of
drawing, the candidate is actively
processing – all of which is evidenced
strongly in the workbook. T
here is a strong sense that the workbook is
simultaneous, that the workbook and
portfolio have a symbiotic relationship,
that one is problem solving the other.
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Outstanding Scholarship
A confident submission that explores an open-ended and well-structured brief; it
is an emotive, sensitive and intelligent response to the topic. The situation is
‘Confide’, a new health organisation – target audience are mid teens to mid-20s –
focusing on mental health issues; the brief involves developing a range of
promotional graphics. Right from the outset the candidate is purposeful in their
choices; the first being to draw by hand as the main aesthetic, and as a way of
reaching target audience.
This strategy is employed through a series of complex and intelligent images; and
moves from hand drawing into contemporary graphics without losing the
autographic.
Illustration is used to animate ideas, ie the television is animated with the hand
coming out of it, the phone reaches out, etc – this is all treated in a playful yet
meaningful manner. There is a real sensitivity to the topic, which is captured in
the continual attention to detail, restraint and control, and appropriate media to
concept relationships.
It is clear that the candidate understands formal qualities of design – he or she
has such a voice because of the way that they employ specific conventions;
limited colour palette, framing of formal qualities coupled with informal, playful
composition, type as image.
There is intelligent play with figure ground relationships, consideration of spatial
ins and outs, foreground background relationships. The layout is strong and
enables the viewer to move across the three boards freely.
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The same type of aptitude
follows through into the
workbook, which also contains
an open-ended tone.
This is a real asset in the
unfolding of this investigation –
the key aspect being that the
candidate chose an aesthetic,
unpicked it in order to transport
their thinking, and did so with
both originality and a high level
of reinvention.
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