Research Festival

AMP Gallery. November 17th-20th 2023.

Book box with booklets and posters and postcards

In November 2023 I had the opportunity to take part in a research festival as the final activity on the MA Fine Art at Camberwell College of Art. I took the opportunity to consolidate my learning from the past year by reading, writing, and making new connections. This work forms the ‘book’ submission for the Research Festival, and includes:

1. Four A4 booklets
2. Five A4 posters
3. 30 A6 postcards (photographs from ‘the Museum of human violence: schooling’ fictioning installation.
4. Two A5 booklets (one from the ‘Learning Violence: Schooling exhibition and one new) .
5. A ‘book box’ to hold the above.

1. The four A4 booklets:
   • book one – History of an idea (research question, rationale, application, context)
   • book two – Methodology (critical discourse analysis), methods (installation and fictioning) and ethics
   • book three – theory (critical animal studies, ecofeminism and post humanism)
   • book four – critical reflection, new understanding and knowledge.

2 Five A4 posters with possible ideas for new galleries.

3. 30 A6 postcards – from photographs taken of the Museum of Human Violence: Schooling installation

5. Book Box

The covers for the A4 booklets and the paper that I chose to cover the book box are one and the same. It’s an A3 drawing that I made in ink. For the book box I enlarged it to A2, copied, flipped and printed off as an A1 sheet:

I think that the large spectrum of colours will fit with any of the internal works.

The idea is to make 4 compartments: 1 x A4 (summary of works and posters). 1 x A5 (gallery booklets), 2 x A6 (postcards). I began by making the smallest inside part, which fits postcards perfectly (these are Munch and Marlene Dumas‘ paintings/wood block, not mine unfortunately – they just look rather lovely in the box). In total this will be A3 size. It is a fun object to make.

Everything fits very snugly. I made the bottom and lid but unfortunately ran out of paper for the lining. This has taken 2.5 A1 sheets. Perhaps better to do the lettering anyway at this stage before I glue the compartments to the base. It has worked extremely well.