Art and Design Project ProposalUALABLEVEL 4 DIPLOMA FOUNDATION STUDIES ART & DESIGN

Family Name First Name Student IDRandolph Gray Indigo 20014578

CollegeCCW (Camberwell)

Course Code Pathway Specialism5 0 1 6 2 Art Drawing & Conceptual

Practice

Session2 0 1 9 2 0

THIS SECTION TO BE COMPLETED BY THE STUDENT

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Number of Words Project Proposal Title493 Queer Experiences of IntimacyStudent Name Date

Indigo Randolph Gray14.03.2021

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Project Proposal

Centre name CCW Foundation

Student name Indigo Randolph Gray

Project title Queer Experiences of Intimacy

Date 04/03/2021

Pathway Drawing & Conceptual Practice

Section 1: Rationale (approx. 150 words)

Throughout this course I have explored different aspects of myself: my childhood andnationality. I have been hesitant to look further into my identity. In the Art & Project I’vebeen able to work on LGBT+ issues (representation, stereotyping,cis-heteronomativity, body image and clothing), focusing on styles of activism: posterart and slogans (such as Alexander Jace Kelly, Rosa Kusabbi and Nikita Papucevicsworks). This challenge is something I’ve found very important to my Foundationpractice: experimenting with concept-based work and exploring mediums from linoprints to wood-work. I’d like to work on issues that feel personal to me and to create ina more conceptual way, with more fluidity and processes developing from an idea,distorted into the final outcome. Bringing in all the elements I’ve explored on thiscourse -- refined drawing, gifs, videos, zines and text-based art. I’d like to focus onillustration and animation (especially very fluid and quick stop-motion work, such asthe work of @gi.a.art/@hmdbti) but in a more symbolic way.

Image 1: Ma’am That’s A Cat (Kelly, A. J., 2021) Image 2: Flying Forever (Dilhaar, 2021)

Image 3: Wear What You Want (Randolph Gray, I., 2021)

Image 4: Labels (Randolph Gray, I., 2021)

Image 5: Commission Piece (Izekiel, G., 2020) Image 6: New Year’s Eve (Papucevics, N., 2020)

Image 7: Touch Your Zorn (Dilhaar, 2021)

Section 2: Project concept (approx. 250 words)

For this project I want to broadly reference the LGBTQIA2S+ community, so itencompasses different identities’ struggles. My main focus will be to find out how I canrepresent queer intimacy in a way that makes cis/het people empathise? ‘Intimacy’and ‘relationships’ is something everyone has experience of though not with bodydysphoria or queer attraction. I will try to invoke feelings of distress, discomfort andunhappiness within my audience, to emulate internal and external feelings that queerpeople often have.

I want to explore my identity and experiences by intertwining them with generalexperiences, which is why I will use writing. There is a lot of writing that artists likeNikita Papucevics, @ajs.pens and Adam Benedict use as inspiration. I’d like to applythis process to my own written work, translating it into art using modes of storytelling:illustration, animation or zine format, to tell the stories of queer lives.

Image 8: ‘For J.’, Paul Bailey (Papucevics, N., 2021) Image 9: Ode to My Binder (@ajs.pens, 2021)

Image 10: Part from ‘Gender Quilt’ (Benedict, A., 2021)

Image 11: Malicious Damage; Defaced Library Books (Orton, J. & Halliwell, K., 1950s-1960s)

Intimacy is about understanding and exploring a person’s vulnerabilities. I hope that Ican use this to explore both intimate relationships with the self and with others, notonly in a sexual sense. I will be aiming for greater representation into the currentissues surrounding the community, such as queer-baiting and stereotyping. I want touse mixed media (graphite, watercolour, colour pencil and ink), particularly in a harsh,bright and flashy way.

Section 3: Evaluation (approx. 100 words)

I plan to document my ideas and research in a sketchbook. I also wish to keep a smallbook of written pieces, this may be in zine format, from which I can create my finalpiece(s) -- this will be my main source of inspiration for the project, but any otherwritten pieces I come across and decide to use will be documented in my Workflow. Ihope that I can use Workflow to piece together all these recorded elements (photos ofany work that I produce) in order to fully present the progression of the project asthings happen.

Proposed research sources and bibliography (Harvard format)

Bibliography/Sources

Chicago Therapy Collective, 2021. Trans Art Is: Love & Liberation. [online] Available at:https://chicagotherapycollective.org/trans-art-is/trans-art-is-love-liberation/ (Accessed 10/03/2021)

Colucci, E., 2019. This Exhibition Celebrates the Role of Queer Sex Work in Art. [online] Them.Available at:https://www.them.us/story/on-our-backs-queer-sex-work-art (Accessed 09/03/2021)

Moma Learning, n.d. Investigating Identity. [online] Available at:https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/investigating-identity/ (Accessed 10/03/2021)

Tate, 2017. Queer British Art 1861–1967 – Exhibition Guide. [online] Available at:https://www.tate.org.uk/art/queer-british-art-1861-1967 (Accessed 09/03/2021)

Lock, D., 2020. Gallery Archive. [online] www.david-lock.com. Available at:https://www.david-lock.com/archive/ (Accessed 13/03/2021)

Reading

Bianpoen, C., 2017. Exploring Identity Through Art. [online] The Jakarta Post. Available at:https://www.thejakartapost.com/amp/life/2017/07/26/exploring-identity-through-art.html

Herbert, A., 2018. Gender and History | Queer Intimacy: Speaking with the Dead in Eighteenth‐CenturyBritain. [online] John Wiley & Sons Ltd., Wiley Online Library. Available at:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1468-0424.12370

Herbert, A., 2020. ‘Treble Hearted’: Queer Intimacies in Early Modern Britain. [online] HistoryWorkshop. Available at:https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/treble-hearted-queer-intimacies-in-early-modern-britain/

Salter, G., 2019. Art and Masculinity in Post-War Britain: Reconstructing Home. Routledge, London, 1stEdition, Taylor & Francis Group. Available at:https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/art-masculinity-post-war-britain-gregory-salter/e/10.4324/9781003084686?refId=f944661e-6b36-48ba-8d36-5091d60b372a

Smith, T., 2019. Queer Intimacy: A Conversation with Diedrick Brackens. [online] Art Papers. Availableat: https://www.artpapers.org/queer-intimacy-a-conversation-with-diedrick-brackens/

Tate, 2021. Cultural Identity. [online] Available at:https://www.tate.org.uk/artist-rooms/collection/themes/cultural-identity

The Art Story Foundation, 2021. Queer Art - History and Concepts. [online] Available at:https://www.theartstory.org/movement/queer-art/history-and-concepts/

Images

Arlo (ajs.pens), 2021. Ode to My Binder https://www.instagram.com/ajs.pens/ (Accessed 12/03/2021)

Benedict, A., 2021 Part from ‘Gender Quilt’ https://www.instagram.com/softooth/ (Accessed 13/03/2021)

Dilhaar (hmdbti), 2021. Flying Forever. [Oil Paint on Transparent Plexiglass],https://www.hmdbti.com/product/flying-forever (Accessed 11/03/2021)

Dilhaar (hmdbti), 2021. Touch Your Zorn. [Oil Paint on Transparent Plexiglass],https://www.hmdbti.com/product/touch-your-zorn (Accessed 11/03/2021)

Izekiel, G., 2020. Commission Piece, https://www.instagram.com/softxprince/ (Accessed 11/03/2021)

Kelly, A. J., 2021. Ma’am That’s A Cat, https://www.instagram.com/sweetcowboyblues/ (Accessed12/03/2021)

Orton, J. & Halliwell, K., 1950s-1960s. Malicious Damage; Defaced Library Books. [Paper Cutouts onBook Cover]http://www.null-entropy.com/2012/11/defaced-library-books-by-joe-orton-and-kenneth-halliwell/(Accessed 13/03/2021)

Papucevics, N., 2020. New Year’s Eve, https://www.instagram.com/papucevics/ (Accessed 12/03/2021)

Papucevics, N., 2021. ‘For J.’, Paul Bailey https://www.instagram.com/papucevics/ (Accessed12/03/2021)

Artists

● Dilhaar (@hmdbti)● Alexander Jace Kelly/Good Deeds Studio (@sweetcowboyblues)● Heather Cassils● Amos Mac● Marcos Chin● Joe Orton & Kenneth Halliwell● Nikita Papucevics (@papucevics)● @gi.a.art● Arlo (@ajs.pens)● Grayson Izekiel (@softxprince)● Julian Miholics● Rosa Kusabbi● Adam Benedict (@softooth)

Image 12: Model Sketch. (Randolph Gray, I., 2021)

Image 13: Forms and Shapes. (Randolph Gray, I., 2021

FMP - Action PlanComplete weeks 1 – 3 as part of Project Proposal hand in.Complete weeks 4 - 7 for the week of 19th April 2021.

You need to include:

Research Online library visits, digital gallery and exhibition visits, material tests, material sourcing, text reading etc.

Development Experimenting with ideas and concepts, material and processes etc.

Finalisation Sourcing materials, presentation of final work, presenting research and development, evaluative statement.

General Tutorials, mid-project crits, technical advice, reflective writing, contingency planning (allowing for things to gowrong), health and safety etc.

Main Aims /Notes

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday

Week 1 15th March

FMP Starts

Beginwriting/collect

16th March

Continuecollecting/writing. Considerways to bring

17th March

Reading: A.Herbert(Gender andHistoryArticles)

18th March

Experimentwith ways oftranslatingthe writinginto art

19th March

Workflow:Reflect &CollectWork/Research

20th March

ContinueExperimenting

Can you find aprocess/techni

21st March

CatchupTime

ing writtenworks

What kinds ofwork do youwant to usetodemonstratequeerexperiences?

these to lifeas art pieces.

Is the focuson self-love orromantic/platonic love?

How can Iuse myexperiencesand theexperiencesof others tobetterrepresent theLGBT+community?(Gay & Transfocus??)

Can we lookat history tobetterrepresent thequeer liveslost toheteronomativity?

Zines? Stopmotionanimation?Fluidillustrations?

que youenjoy?

Week 2 22nd March

ProjectProposalDigitalHand- InDeadline

23rd March

ProjectProposalDigitalHand-InDeadline

24th March

Reading: C.Bianpoen(ExploringIdentityThrough Art)

25th March

Startfinishing upthis pieceand findingways toexpand itfurther.

26th March

Workflow:Reflect &CollectWork/Research

27th March

Finalise firstpiece

28th March

CatchupTime

Use Ideasfrom earlierexperimentation to beginbrainstorminga major pieceidea.

How can youmakesomethingthat reflectsthe writtenwork but alsodistorts itenough to bemoreconceptual?(Zine/Animation?)

Continueworking onbrainstormideas, try tobegin creatingthe piece(gathermaterials andinspiration).

Look intorelevantartists?Techniquesyou couldincorporate?

How do Iexpress myvulnerabilitieshonestly?How can Imake itrelatable?

What do youlike aboutthe pieceand what doyou want toimprove?

Can youmake morethan oneversion?

Easter 29th March 30th March 31st March 1st April 2nd April 3rd April 4th April

Easter 5th April

Any Catch UpWork/Unfinished Pieces

6th April 7th April 8th April 9th April

Workflow:Reflect &CollectWork/Research

10th April 11th April

Week 3 12th April

Beginworking onplan for next4 weeks!

13th April

Continueexperimentsfor this piece.

14th April

Reading: T.Smith (QueerIntimacy)

What aspectsof this theme

15th April

Create/Decide upon afinal form forthis newpiece and

16th April

Workflow:Reflect &CollectWork/Research

17th April

Continue workon new piece.

18th April

CatchupTime

Experimenton new piecethat furtherconceptualises thepreviouspiece

Look forartists thatare veryconceptualforinspiration?

How can youtake the initialideas of thisproject evenfurther?

Explore anew nuancedarea? Newwritten piece?New identity?

have youbeenoverlookingthus far?

beginworking on it.

New style ofanimation/illustration? Trya newmedium?Glass/plastic?

(Order ifnecessary)

Week 4 19th April

Submit next4 weeks ofAction Plan

(Group A)

Along withRiskAssessmentForm forFinalOutcome

20th April

Submit next4 weeks ofAction Plan

(Group B)

Along withRiskAssessmentForm forFinalOutcome

21st April 22nd April 23rd April 24th April 25th April

Week 5 26th April 27th April 28th April 29th April 30th April 1st May 2nd May

Week 6 3rd May 4th May 5th May 6th May 7th May 8th May 9th May

Week 7 10th May 11th May 12th May 13th May

FMP

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14th May

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