My name is Jenna Lockett, I am a 21 year old student from Essex. I am currently in my third year of a B.A in Fine Art. I have started this blog more as a record of my thoughts on the various goings on of this final, and extremely busy, year. I hopefully will be including reflections on different texts: considering why they have had such an impact in either a positive or negative way. As well as any exhibitions that I have done or participated in and those of other artists that I have found particularly influential. Most importantly writing about my own work, trying to analyse and consider it more critically, along with anything else in between!
Before and since starting the degree I have always been interested in writing, and over the past few years I have realised that I like to write about art. Recently I have been writing more about my own work and reflecting on successes or failures, key influences and how processes have altered the way it looks and how my ideas for the work change as I begin to delve deeper into a subject. The medium I work most with is photography but I have also experimented with video, drawing and sometimes painting. What the work is about depends greatly on things I have read, that I have enjoyed and wish to explore more thoroughly, as well as briefs that we are set in the studios by my tutor. My work is very versatile, and as I have come to discover, it is a way of developing and working visually with my thoughts or opinions, its about being able to question myself about why I am thinking this way and trying to come to a better understanding of not only my own work but its influences as well, I find exploring this visually is extremely helpful.
This year I will be writing my dissertation. This is oddly enough something I am looking forward to doing. The critical and contextual studies module is most definitely my favourite part, and I love everything about it, from doing the research and gathering sources to the actual writing of the work. The subjects that I focus on for my own writing has always strongly influenced the work I have been doing in the studio. An on-going theme throughout has been artistic intention; why we do things in a certain way, what ultimate ‘idea’ we are trying to get across (if there is one at all!) and whether this can be easily perceived by the viewer, or even if this actually matters. I think its a fascinating topic and one that I have remained interested in throughout the degree. I started off with looking at what is termed as ‘Conceptual Art’; ideas and key artists that were important in the movement, if you can call it that! I then went onto questioning artistic intention and wrote a very brief yet personal essay on what I felt that artistic intention was, and how my studio work reflected this. For my dissertation this year I will be studying Roland Barthes’ ‘Death of the Author’, questioning points he makes throughout that text and comparing those to the ideas of others like Joseph Kosuth and Foucault. I plan to include some aspects of the research I am doing for my dissertation in the blog as I am hopefully doing an MA in Contemporary Art Theory after the degree, therefore writing is going to be a crucial skill that I need to continue to develop!
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