presentation given to MA Book Art Students Camberwell 2015

1. mapping practice

2. your making - contextual framework
social political
personal critical/theoretical
historical geographical
institutional cultural

3. social context
Making and seeing an image always takes place in
a social context. The way it is seen and how it is
seen are culturally constructed.
The time and place the work is made
Audience for work - who is
included/excluded/implicated on the ways an image
is produced, circulated and consumed
The role of the audience

4. political context
gender - race - ethnicity - sexual
orientation - class - disability - religion
specific political issue
broad political issue

5. personal context
Biography - narrative of the self
particular issues - memories
What motivates/ drives you?
Your particular skills as an artist/
designer/writer/photographer
What strategies do you use when the work is not
going well?
How do you relate to the forces that in part
condition what you know and in which you make
things?

6. critical/theoretical context
Does your work relate to particular critical debates
about contemporary art and design practices?
particular critical debates
Is your work informed by/engaging with/
contesting particular theoretical frameworks/issues?
particular theories

7. historical context
Understand how/whether your practice relates
to a tradition, with a history
Work that is specific to a particular time
How knowledge relates to periods in time.

8. geographical context
Local, regional, national, international, global.
Is the place where you make your work
important to the work?
Do you make your work in relation to a particular
place?
studio home church city rural cyberspace

9. institutional context
UAL – CCW – MA Course
Your educational background/experience
Your professional background/experience
Your family background/experience
What is the role of the institution?

10. cultural context
In it’s broadest sense - ‘a whole way of life’ - this
relates to all the other categories.
More specifically, what works of artists, designers,
writers, filmmakers, photographers, musicians are
important to you and your work - why?
What activity do you engage with?

11. mapping your practice
Any other contexts worth considering?
Importance
Overlapping
change - evolution of practice

12. specific ‘robotic project’
critical/theoretical
historical
geographical
materials
personal

13. your turn
your making - contextual framework
social political
personal critical/theoretical
historical geographical
institutional cultural