Contemporary Art Practice resources

Examples of blogs used to develop dialogues

TateShots: Callum Innes studio visit

"Wales" by artist John Piper

Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966 – 1979

Maurizio Galimberti- Polaroid Mosaics and  Portrait of Chuck Close

Ian Irvine Collage & print

Jewellery 

http://paolamirai.myshopify.com

Cirkùita making of - Handmade jewels from the future

Kristy Hsu

Christiane Diehl

Zineb Sedira (Identity politics)

Global Feminisms: Zineb Sedira 
Talking about her video work Mother Tongue, 2002 and more at the Brooklyn Museum.  

 

Kara Walker

Kara Walker

Biography: http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/Main/Biography

Website: http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker

Themes in her work: http://learn.walkerart.org/karawalker/Main/IntroductionToThemes

MOMA: http://www.moma.org/interactives/projects/1999/conversations/kw_f.html

Gallery: http://sikkemajenkinsco.com/index.php?v=artist&artist=4eece69f3eb4e

Article: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/oct/10/kara-walker-art-shadows-of-slavery

Cindy Sherman

Biography: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/cindy-sherman-1938

Cindy Sherman, Nobody's Here But Me (1994)

MOMA: http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1170

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Still #17 1978,1998: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sherman-untitled-film-still-17-p11516/text-summary

Cindy Sherman,Untitled #97 1982: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/sherman-untitled-97-p77728/text-summary

Me, myself and I article: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/jan/15/cindy-sherman-interview

Saatchi: http://www.saatchigallery.com/aipe/cindy_sherman.htm

Gillian Wearing

Biography: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/gillian-wearing-obe-2648

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Artworks

                                                Gillian Wearing, 2 into 1, 1997

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Confess All On Video. Don't Worry You Will Be in Disguise. Intrigued? Call Gillian Version II 1994: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/wearing-confess-all-on-video-dont-worry-you-will-be-in-disguise-intrigued-call-gillian-t07447  

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Dancing in Peckham, 1994 

Video: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/video/2012/mar/26/gillian-wearing-dancing-peckham-video

Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2000/jun/03/art 

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Self Made, 2010 

Video-Trailer: http://selfmade.org.uk/videos/ 

Website: http://selfmade.org.uk/about/

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Family Monument (2007)

BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-23577174  

Culture 24: http://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/west-midlands/birmingham/art448112 

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Self Portraits - family series 2003: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2012/mar/27/gillian-wearing-takeover-mask#/?picture=387780724&index=0  

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Articles

Guggenheim: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/collections/collection-online/artists/bios/866

Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/9149522/Gillian-Wearing-Everyones-got-a-secret.html

Daily Serving: http://dailyserving.com/2012/04/gillian-wearing-wearing-a-mask-of-gillian-wearing/

Guggenheim: http://www.guggenheim.org/new-york/education/school-educator-programs/teacher-resources/arts-curriculum-online?view=item&catid=732&id=155

Curator at Whitechapel talking about her work: http://www.whitechapelgallery.org/exhibitions/gillian-wearing 

Artists exploring Identity

Sophie Calle
Artist Biography: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/sophie-calle-2692

The Sleepers: http://artwelove.com/artwork/-id/dac35c47

Sophie Calle: stalker, stripper, sleeper, spy: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/sep/23/sophie-calle

Up close and (too) personal: A Sophie Calle retrospective:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/up-close-and-too-personal-a-sophie-calle-retrospective-1809346.html

Sophie Calle: Conversation with the nameless man

Yinka Shonibare

Artist biography: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe-3081

The Swing (after Fragonard) 2001:

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/shonibare-the-swing-after-fragonard-t07952/text-summary

Artists website: http://www.yinkashonibarembe.com

Lecture: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/video/bp-british-art-lecture-yinka-shonibare-mbe

Video: http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/guidedtours/yinka-shonibare-tour 

Yinka Shonibare MBE: "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" | Art21 "Exclusive"

Lynn Hershman Leeson

Artist website: http://www.lynnhershman.com

Roberta Breitmore: http://www.lynnhershman.com/roberta-breitmore/

Roberta Breitmore: http://www.lynnhershman.com/files/lynnhershman-robertabreitmore.pdf

Tate: http://www2.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry16539.shtm

Excerpt from the Artist Talk with Lynn Hershman Leeson on Roberta Breitmore