Interim 'summative' assessment presentation prior to Prof K retirement.

1. Art M25: Mrs Blue (working title)
- Summary of original project proposal
- Artists & photographers who inform/inspire
the work
- Contact sheets/tests/images so far
Brenda Burrell 25 March 2014

2. Summary of Original Project Proposal
• ongoing work began in 2004
Twenty Years Later; Uneasy Survival
• semi autobiographical work turning now to
collective fictionalised biography/ies
• measuring the (metaphorical) coast

3. (Coastal map of Scotland. Grey = Ordnance Survey)

4. Key Enquiry
How do you represent everything about a place?
• Underground - extraction, water table.
• History - ancient denes, pirates, industrial
appropriation.
• Darkness, secrecy, privacy, survival.
• The people?

5. Photographic & Artistic Influences
Hegelian Thesis // Antithesis
+ Thesis: Grim Up North
Amber Side (Shooting Magpies); Chris Killip (In Flagrante); Jim
Mortram (Small Town Inertia).
+ Antithesis: Plucky Survivors
Robin Dale (Songscapes); Chris Harrison (I B’long Jarra); Sirkka
Liisa Kontinnen (Byker Revisited).

6. Contact Sheets & Test Images
• Visual Research Journal: www.mrsblue.co.uk
• Walking With You: Dropbox link
• Family Album: Dropbox link
• Darkroom contacts & test prints.

7. Next?
• ISO 400 film to address softness issue
• 2nd shoot Friday 28th March
• Dev/print batch 2 w/c 31st March
• Academic feedback & group crit.
Rinse, spin and repeat.
Submit Portfolio end May 2014.