Self Directed Research Links

Anthropocene and Climate Change

• Show your Stripes https://showyourstripes.info/ Visual representations of warming data

• What the World would look like if all the ice melted https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/rising-seas-ice-melt-new-shoreline-maps

• How to live at the end of the world https://www.academia.edu/82721744/How_to_Live_at_the_End_of_the_World_Theory_Art_and_Politics_for_the_Anthropocene

• Anthropocene Magazine https://www.proquest.com/publication/5505856?accountid=10342&parentSessionId=auNDUATkoAnh4OAOnpLi3viu1uLqMTFfTC2F5EsIwjg%3D

• A Terrible Beauty: Art and Learning in the Anthropocene https://www-tandfonline-com.arts.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/10598650.2020.1723357

• Ben Okri https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/12/artists-climate-crisis-write-creativity-imagination

• Art and Climate Change https://www.riseart.com/article/2485/9-artists-confronting-climate-change

• Reframing Ruin Courthauld https://courtauld.ac.uk/research/research-resources/publications/immeditations-postgraduate-journal/immediations-online/immediations-no-20-2023/gamaliel-rodriguez-reframing-ruin/

• Migrant Ecologies Project https://migrantecologies.org/

• Ecoaesthetics https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/art-beyond-art-ecoaesthetics-a-manifesto-for-the-21st-century

• Enigma of Climate Inaction https://medium.com/@newptc75/the-enigma-of-climate-inaction-2e583163e0a0

• https://artistsandclimatechange.com/organizations/

Landscape and Earth Resources

• Uncovering landscape narratives through visual creative practice https://www.southampton.ac.uk/tag2016/sessionsabstracts/session12.page

• A short history of the sublime https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-short-history-of-the-sublime/

Techniques and process ideas

• Bookbinding coptic stitching https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgYvZW0jEa8

• Bookbinding course with Gillian Stewart on long stitch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2TX-fe-CfI

• Digitising sketchbooks https://academicsupportonline.arts.ac.uk/learning-resources/69554

Grief resources

• Death as an act of resistance https://caitlindoughty.com/advocacy/

• TED new ways to think about death https://www.ted.com/playlists/241/new_ways_to_think_about_death

• Better Ways to Die Ivor Williams https://qz.com/368257/can-we-redesign-death-to-be-as-innovative-social-and-tech-savvy-as-life

• End Game Film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_Game_(2018_film)

• Age of Loneliness https://www.economist.com/news/2013/11/18/beware-the-age-of-loneliness

• Death and Ritual Julian Stair ceramics https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/19/art-and-the-struggle-to-remember-uk-covid-dead

• An Atmosphere of Grief in 3 parts https://ivorwilliams.medium.com/an-atmosphere-of-grief-18e0633def30

• Ivor Williams blog relationship with mortality https://ivorwilliams.info/

• Mortals Community https://mortals.community/

• Dear Earth show at the Hayward Gallery Conversations with Rachel Thomas https://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/blog/videos/otobong-nkanga-conversation-hayward-gallerys-rachel-thomas

• Judith Butler and Preciousness and Grievability https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/2339-judith-butler-precariousness-and-grievability

• Ruskin PhD candidate Xinyue Liu https://www.liuxinyue.com/move/fixing-my-leave/

• Ecological Grief ‘The Weight of a Bird’ https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/var.12308

Drawing Resources

• Drawing Correspondence https://issuu.com/drawing_correspondence_program/docs/wintering_well_publication_/s/18001683

• Royal Drawing School Drawing Year possibly after this MA https://www.royaldrawingschool.org/courses/postgraduate/

• MA Drawing Camberwell https://www.arts.ac.uk/subjects/fine-art/postgraduate/ma-fine-art-drawing-camberwell

• UAL drawing resources https://academicsupportonline.arts.ac.uk/learning-resources/52967

• UAL Life Drawing Society on instagram https://www.instagram.com/uallifedrawing/?hl=en

• Auerbach ‘Charcoal Heads’ at the Courthauld Gallery, London Feb - May ‘24 https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh-frank-auerbach-the-charcoal-heads/

Artists

• John Virtue https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/residency-programmes/past-artist-residencies/john-virtue-2003-5

• John Virtue - Hiscox private collection

• Hiscox collection https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/venue:hiscox-collection-7895/page/2

• Tacita Dean trees https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/magazine-tacita-dean

• Mark Smith https://mypaintingcourse.com/tag/gillian-carnegie/

• Purdey Fitzherbert

• Zoe Ashbrook

• Laura Fox

• Lola Lawton

• Frank Auerbach - https://courtauld.ac.uk/whats-on/exh-frank-auerbach-the-charcoal-heads/

• Frank Auerbach https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001vsbv

• Xinyue Liu

General thoughts and ideas

• Blogs and reflective practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dun5FVgd1nM

• Studio Wall https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNbID0MQ=/

• Practice Based Research https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVNWfRVCk=/

• The Alternative Reading List https://thealternativereadinglistproject.wordpress.com/philosophy/

• The Reflective Practitioner by Donald Schön

• Pillow Talk book - Iskra on instagram

• Metamodernism concept discussed in a breakout room

• Tate Films https://www.youtube.com/user/tate/tatelive

• Interviews from UAL staff about the function of a sketchbook https://teachingexchange.arts.ac.uk/visual-directions/sketchbooks/video/

• Visual Anthropology Review https://www.visualanthropologyreview.org/

Museums and galleries relevant

• Hunterian Museum Royal College of Surgeons, London https://hunterianmuseum.org/collections/anatomy-collection

• Horniman, London

• Natural History Museum, London