Artist Research Project-

 

This artist research was one of the hardest I had to do only because most of her information was accessible, but I could not find decently sized images. I did feel burnout due to the term so I did procrastinate a bit, but once I understood what I myself was saying I was able to take off and really see Bea Nettles as more than the cyanotype artist I thought she was.

Her work in the gravestone poetry series deeply affected me because even if she is using text (given the surnames of gravestones) I think she does what I’ve been trying to do with my beds, which is format her images in such a way that re-frame them conjoined with their original use, to also tell a story differently.

I am still working on my beds booklet series, but her craftsmanship in both artbooks and formatting in general has given me inspiration to find my own way to recontextualize the bed, the way she does her text and image.

Presentation Link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UXa2Sb1mVBccL1HtHBjYa4t0c5Ow1I4EqxXnkpum17g/edit?usp=sharing