TMA1402: Creative Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Blog 1 Simon Poulter talk, part 1

This was my second lesson on this module that I started last Wednesday 19th January 2022. During the first session the lead tutor, Simon Poulter, had went through the module brief and discussed what students are expected to do. As it was the first session and the first tine we had met Simon, he had asked all the students to talk one by one, starting with our name, followed by what we were studying, our practice and project. Simon had also sent us a creative mind map proir to the session, and asked those who had already talked about them selfs to complete this form. After all the students had finished talking and completed the form, he went on to talk about the creative mind map and asked those who had completed it to go through their answers. The questions on the creative mind map were spilt into sections which were:

Primary Skills

• Primary Experience

• New Skills Objective

• Constraints

• Future Business or Job

• Directions and Ambitions

• An Achievement

• A Challenge

• A Likely Outcome

• Constraint

• Ambitions

• Networking and Social

• Primary Channel (Instagram etc)

• Primary Networks (People)

• New Networks

• Constraints

• Future Social Goal

As only a few students had been asked to do this during in the session, after the session ended we were all asked to go away and do this in our own time and send them across to Simon via email.

Moving on to the next session which is week 2 for this module, we started the session with our tutor Simon Poulter who randomly chose some of us to go through the creative mind map that he given us the previous week. The students that were picked (I was not one of them) had to talk about what they thought about the creative mind map, if it had helped them or not etc. and answer some of the question on the mind map. Even though I did not go through mine it was interesting to hear other peoples answers and what they thought. After this Simon went on to talk about his own practice.

Notes from Simon Poulter talk

• Simon is an artist that works across media and digital printing.

• Interested in politics across the world not just in England.

• Populist

• Recording the fact nothing never happened.

• People in the new normal

• Painted, activist Rachel Baker. Simon describes her as trouble but in a good way.

• Simon also painted portraits of

• Lara Ratnaraja an activists who worked in food banks and was exited by social change.

• Banksy, as no-one knows who the artist Banksy looks like, so Simon would use images that had been realised by the public of who people thought he was, these realised images had changed through the years.

• Boris Johnston, water painting, needs no words, image and name speaks for it self.

• Charlotte Rowen- image of who she used be, walking down the street, she is now in her mid 60’s.

• Anna Karina, French actress in black and white movies, painted stills of her from the movies and brought colour into them.

• Project called Butterflies of the new normal, these were large paintings sized A2. Simon also commissioned to paint these butterflies. They were very detailed paintings and took a week to make. Used marking and colourful. Red Admiral was his favourite butterfly painting, he had sold this and wish he had kept an hold of it.

Siobhan :)

26/01/22

Photos taken from a powerpoint by Simon Poulter

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