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What have I found about the initial draft methods?
– Those unfamiliar with Padlets are resistant (assist and make with them?)
– The empty categories challenge the participant to find resources
– Enables me to know less visible cultural aspects of a student
– What isn’t there? Who isn’t there? Generally, there are no people of colour, trans or lesbian, global south.
– Where is the voice of the immigrant (within their Western European references)?
– Research itself is a colonisers term / discipline. What are decolonised or anti colonised approaches to gathering information to inform creativity?
Further Reading:
Decolonizing Methodologies Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Alport Contact Hypothesis
Examples of Student Find 30 Research Padlets after 4-5 weeks (1/2 Blocks) (Levels 4 & 5)
Initial Findings of all Padlets across Level 4, Level 5 and Level 6.
Level 4 findings
Student 1.
West: 6
Non-West: 2 (S.E Asian)
Contemporary: 9 (2 of colour/Brown)
Cultural: 2 (2 non-white)
Political: 1 (1 non-white)
Materials/Methods: 3 (all white)
Black in Cultural / Political
Studio padlet had no artists of colour.
Research padlet included Iranian, Dutch, Japanese, Indian, American, English.
Student 2.
West: 8
Non-West: 5 (Chinese, Ghanian, Iranian, Japanese)
Contemporary: 9 (all white)
Cultural: 9 (all white)
Political: 9 (all white)
Materials / Methods: 18 (all white)
(Black) 0
Studio padlet had no artists of colour
Research padlet included only artists of colour prompted by specific category.
Student 3.
West: 3
Non-West 0
Contemporary:6 (all white)
Cultural: 3 (2 non-white)
Political: 7 (3 non-white)
Materials / Methods: 4 (all white)
(Black) 4 in Political and Cultural
Student 4.
West: 13
Non-West: 8 (Japanese, Mexican, Iranian, Australian Indigenous,
Contemporary: 10 (Indian, Japanese, American Middle-Eastern, English-African)
Cultural: 10 (6 non white)
Political: 15 (5 non white)
Materials / Methods: 5 (3 non white)
(Black) 1 in Contemporary, 5 in Political, 2 in Cultural.
Student 1. https://padlet.com/s24ac2/baacc-4-1-q2rf2pxabk8m1nm0
https://padlet.com/s24ac2/find-30-463pscwbpuslolod
Student 2. https://padlet.com/nhall68509/ba-4-1-project-1-9iu0xxzccac7v6js
https://padlet.com/nhall68509/find-30-nicola-hall-whrl916c3rt5g020
Student 3. padlet.com/anitajg1966/essay-2cnn4ym18aghbiuy
padlet.com/anitajg1966/find-30-project-loeecd853zn0hlhs
Student 4. padlet.com/terrileeinthegarden/theory-in-practice-art-and-place-tm9sqgpgg5np05bq
Student 5. https://padlet.com/s24rw1/my-remarkable-padlet-om72j5r49otst64w
Level 5 findings
Student 1.
West: 5
Non-West: 5 (Japanese, Caribbean, Angolan, Grenadian)
Contemporary: 5 (all white tho Non-West category were Contemporary not Historical)
Cultural: 5 (all white)
Political: 5 (2 non-white)
Materials / Methods: 5 (all white)
(Black): In Non-West category, Political (2)
Student 2.
West: 6
Non-West: 2 (Japanese and Mexican)
Contemporary: 26 (Chinese, Spanish, American, Middle-East, African)
Cultural: 6 (3 non-white)
Political: 3 (1 non-white)
Materials / Methods: 4 (4 non-white)
(Black) Only in Contemporary
Student 3.
West: 5
Non-West: 5. (Cuban, Indian, African)
Contemporary: 6 (Greek, American, English, Israeli)
Cultural: 5 (1 non-white)
Political: 5 (1 non-white)
Materials / Methods: 5 (1 non-white)
(Black): 0
Student 4.
West: 4
Non-West :4 Mexican, African-American, Afro-UK, Japanese
Contemporary: 5 (all white)
Cultural: 5 (4 non-white)
Political: 5 ( all white)
Materials / Methods: 5 (1 non-white)
(Black) 1 in Political (1 Japanese in Cultural)
Student 5.
West: 5
Non-West: 4 (S.E Asia, Indian, Japanese, China)
Contemporary: 3 (all white)
Cultural: 2 (2 non-white)
Political: 4 (3 non-white)
Materials / Methods: 3 (all white)
(Black) 1 in Cultural, 1 Brown in Political
Student 6. Did not complete
Student 7. Did not complete
Student 8.
West: 5 (Van Gogh, Michaelangelo, Vermeer, Friedrich, Klimt)
Non-West: 5 India, American Indian, African-American x 2, Japanese
Contemporary: 5 Doig, NZer Marsone, Peter Blake, Petrovitch, Childish,
Cultural: 5 (all white)
Political: 5 (all white)
Materials / Methods: none
(Black) only in non-west category
Student 9.
West: 6
Non-West: 5 (Chinese, Nigeria, Japan, Ghana, Brasil)
Contemporary:6
Cultural: 5 (1 non-white)
Political: 4 (all white)
Materials / Methods: 6 (all white)
(Black) only in non-west category
Student 1. https://padlet.com/s24na/ba-aacs-5-1-ze99tamz89e5effz
Exhibition: Mary Ramsden, Pillar Corrias https://www.pilarcorrias.com/exhibitions/466-mary-ramsden-desire-line/
Student 2. https://padlet.com/evelarey/research-practice-place-xjpvp3obg07lcrsq
Exhibition: Toshiko Takaezu and Lenore Tawney, Alison Jacques https://alisonjacques.com/exhibitions
Student 3. https://padlet.com/s24lp1/find-30-project-d1xwvgtu5idj85zq
https://padlet.com/s24lp1/my-workbook-baac-14n11wco1dk4a8dc
Exhibition: Ken Currie, The Crossing, Flowers Gallery
Student 4. https://padlet.com/cphn8v8hhk/find-30-research-i7wiky3j26ma02bg
Exhibition: Modern Master’s MOCA Archway https://london.mocomuseum.com/modern-masters/
Student 5. https://shorturl.at/oSv6J
Exhibition: Daniel and Clara opens at Norwich Castle Fine Art Gallery
Student 6. https://padlet.com/hughes364/my-smart-padlet-nj0q98kwjmufk9wn
Exhibition: Kurt Jackson Oak, The Basin, Greenham Newbury https://thebasegreenham.co.uk/event/kurt-jackson-oak
Student 7. https://padlet.com/sarahcounter/the-making-of-place-gdtquqk64to9v1kb
Exhibition: Neil Brownsword: Obsolescence and Renewal: Innovations from an industrial past’s investigations into histories of North Staffordshire https://www.britishceramicsbiennial.com/exhibitions/obsolescence-and-renewal-at-the-brampton-museum/
Student 8. https://padlet.com/s24cb/my-fearless-padlet-h3zax5rymk91ifpg
Exhibition: Lynn Drexler, White Cube Mason’s Yard
Student 9. https://padlet.com/smcculloch1909/find-thirty-rc0fnm2bjs5ktu2i
https://padlet.com/smcculloch1909/studio-work-5-1-place-622d4fs0q5oedycs
Exhibition: Alison Wilding, Precious Things at Alison Jacques
Level 6 findings
Student 1.
West: 6
Non-West: 4 (Japanese, Native-American, Cuban)
Contemporary: 5 (Korean, Japanese, Chinese-American, Chinese, English)
Cultural: 5 (2 non-white)
Political: 6 (5 non-white)
Materials / Methods: 5 (all white)
(Black), Cultural and Political – also Nepalese, Indigenous Australian, Mexican, South-African
Student 2. Did not complete properly
West: 8
Non-West: 0
Contemporary:as above in West
(Black): 0
Student 3.
West: 5
Non-West: Indigenous-Australian, African-American, Chinese, Uk-African
Contemporary: 4 (Chinese, African, English)
Cultural: 6 (1 non-white)
Political: 5 (2 non-white)
Materials / Methods: none
(Black) 3 Political+ Cultural
Student 4. Did not complete
Student 5.Did not complete
Student 6. Did not complete
Student 1. https://padlet.com/Taralocana/find-30-activity-ss11h84cf9mwi5t0
Student 2. https://padlet.com/clairediedrichsen/baacc-6-1-cbozlw6ypsltmrcj
Student 3. https://padlet.com/s24jh2/baacc-y2dgmsab4d3tju1g
Student 4. Did not complete
Student 5. Did not complete
Student 6. Did not complete
Findings after minimising to Level 5 focused on research for Exhibition Review Assessment
Minimising the project to Level 5 allowed for more focused reflection and analysis however the quality of Level 5 is misleading as these students have entered the course at Level 5 and are First Year students, not having a foundation (level 3) or introductory Level 4 Art Theory & Critical Studies. This is a Course Leader decision and is reflected in the narrow breadth of the student searches and understanding of research, which should hopefully improve as the year continues.
Observations of Level 5 Padlets:
1/9 students selected an exhibition of a person of colour. This student is not British and selected a Japanese artist in the context of a European artist (Student is European).
1 student with Irish heritage selected an Irish artist’s exhibition.
7/9 students selected white British artists and are white British.
7/9 Students found non-Western references when prompted by the category search.
9/9 Students selected majority white Contemporary artists.
1/9 students selected 2 contemporary artists of colour compared to the same student selecting 13 contemporary white artists.
2/9 students placed artists of colour in Political category (rather than Social/Everyday).
1/9 ignored the categories and placed all the references together differentiating with their own categories between Western / Non-Western / Cultural.
Check-in Online Tutorials
One student who had selected an artist’s exhibition that used post-impressionist stylistic references, was very responsive to engaging with a discussion on white conditioning and why they had been drawn to this exhibition that they described as “beautiful”.
Two students confessed to selecting exhibitions due to their convenient location to the home/situation rather than their artistic interest.
One student needed clarification that Non-Western European referred not only to geographical location but approach to thinking / perspective.
When students selected artists of colour they were artists who were well recognised having exhibited in Venice Biennial, or historically recognised within the Western canon.
Only one student introduced an artist of colour unrecognised by the Western canon owing to the students own cultural background/knowledge (Mexican/Spanish).
None of the students were adventurous in their selections, sticking to mainstream galleries and newspaper/online searches. Disappointingly, none used any references from the session of shared journals offering varied exhibitions.
No student included artists of colour shown to them in lectures.