Creative Studio, blog 1: Returning to University

Creative Studio module is lead by Professor Alex Coles, Senior lectures Dale Holmes and Claire Barber. Our first session was on Transdisciplinary, and had a presentation from Professor Alex Coles on this subject. This led to the discussion of how every art forms interlink with each other. Whilst I am studying photography, the Masters course is a mixture of different art sectors, this includes photography, fine art, graphic design, animation and fashion & textiles. This highlights how different sectors interlink and can work together to make a piece of art form. After this presentation we spilt in to 3 groups depending on our subject area; my group included students who were studying photography and fine art, there were not many of us, 2 students from fine art and 3 from photography. In this group, Dale is the tutor and lead a discussion on studio practice, stating your studio is wherever you working at that particular time; it is not in one place, it is where you are working at the time. This is a completely new concept to me, as in photography a studio is a physical form which consists of 3 walls, a curtain, backdrops, lighting, tripod, camera and computers, so in photography ‘the studio’  has always been separated and anything outside of a studio is a location shoot. This led me to having a different prospective of a studio space. 

In looking into the way I work and the process I go through to get to the final image or art piece as photographer and artist, all art forms link by gaining a concept, researching into areas that link with that concept then realising that concept. This is the case for every art form and this is where it interlinks with each other. Everyone’s journey to the final piece of art form is different, for example two photographers can shoot the same image and have different prospectives. Though they are looking at the same image, every single shot will be different because of the camera or lens they are using or the angle they take the shoot; it might be the slightest thing, 1 inch to the right, 1 inch to the left. This is why I love photography because you can never capture the same image twice, if you shoot an image of the same subject 10 times, you will capture 10 different photos because it is impossible to capture the exact same image twice. 

Siobhan :)

29/09/21