Colour and Nature: Presentations / What's next?

I received some really positive and encouraging feedback from our practice presentations; I was happy to hear that my work had a flow to it, and that I had created a body of work that reflected my visual research and contexts. Originally, I had intended to leave most of this work behind and almost consider it as a finished brief, however after our presentation and the feedback that I had received I have now decided against this. My work was described as having a softness and fluidy to it, which was fantastic to hear, as I wanted to reflect such coarse imagery in a really soft and gentle light. Also, I had expressed during the presentation that I was concerned regarding my context, I was concerned that I was thinking too much like a fine artist, but I was reassured of this context.

As we come to an end of this short three week brief, we are asked to decide whether we want to continue our ideas on to our next body of work or bring this part to a close. I want to use this gorgeous imagery of Northern Ireland to continue throughout my next body of work, however I intend to juxtapose it and highlight many of the issues that exist within Northern Irish culture and politics. I want to use this colour and nature brief to inspire my next body of work, but not dictate it's path; I intend to use my imagery from this brief to inspire my new work, but combine it with imagery of political and historical issues from within Northern Ireland to give my work a protest art feel to it, creating work that is almost rebellious in nature.