This blog began as part of a PhD research project into the artist teacher in the classroom. What difference does it make in the classroom for the art teacher to practice as an artist? The early parts of the blog were part of the analysis phase and about sharing the research. The art room was in a middle school in Lowestoft in Suffolk on the east coast of the UK. Year 6 are about ten to eleven years old, year seven eleven to twelve and year eight are twelve to thirteen. The school was closed in July 2011 due to the reorganisation of schools in Suffolk.
Since then the blog has been fairly moribund as the finishing of the PhD took a lot of time. The thesis can now be read on the UAL Research website and I completed the doctorate in january 2019.
Currently the blog is under redevelopment as part of social media reorganization during lockdown.
I currently have a shop online at www.bigcartel.paulcopeart.com
This is interesting. You might like the poem by Yeats (from memory):
You think it horrible that lust and rage
Should dance attendance upon my old age
They were not such a plague when I was young
What else have I to spur me into song?
IE what gets you going? I’ve been looking at Ron Kitaj again. I don’t like what he was doing towards the end of his life, but it does strike me that as he was doing precisely what I think one should do as an artist,* I’ve therefore no business criticising him for what comes out. * IE artists should carry out anything they can conceive of, however absurd or outrageous or silly it might seem in the light of what others are going to say, and should be prepared to comment on anything in the world or the mind. They owe this to all the people who can’t, or won’t.
I like the idea of simple triggers
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