Previous AA2A Artist

Amy J Wilson

Year:
2021-22
Location:
London
Email:
amyjwilson@live.co.uk
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Project summary:

Working across mediums, my practice engages with the role of the digital in our shifting relationship to materiality, representation, reproduction and the boundaries between domestic and public space.

My project idea is to work with 3D scans I have collected of taxidermied domestic animals; I created the 3D scans, using photogrammetry, during research visits at the Grant Museum of Zoology and the Horniman. I want to use the facilities to investigate the relationship between 3D scanning, slip casting and taxidermy. These three techniques/technologies allow you to map the surface, or ‘skin’, of an object rather than its mass. In many ways photogrammetry is a kind of digital taxidermy. Using these interrelated processes, I want to transform these scientific objects into domestic ceramics, mirroring their public/domestic nature.

Having previously worked with 3D scans, this opportunity will give me access to the facilities I need to develop my research and gain a greater understanding of the materials involved, the process and potential outcomes; it will enable me to develop and realise a new body of work specifically around this research.

Undertaking this research within an education setting, alongside students, will enable me to gain more experience within an arts education environment and pass on my knowledge and experience of being a self-employed artist. It will allow me to develop my own practice and actively reflect, through the delivery of student talks/workshops/tutorials/studio visits, on the project and the new body of work I will create.

During the project I aim to: gain a greater understanding of the interconnected relationship of photogrammetry, slip casting and taxidermy; experiment with processes and techniques for successfully communicating this relationship; share my discoveries with students through a participatory workshop; develop and exhibit a new body of work.

Working across mediums, my practice engages with the role of the digital in our shifting relationship to materiality, representation, reproduction and the boundaries between domestic and public space.

My project idea is to work with 3D scans I have collected of taxidermied domestic animals; I created the 3D scans, using photogrammetry, during research visits at the Grant Museum of Zoology and the Horniman. I want to use the facilities to investigate the relationship between 3D scanning, slip casting and taxidermy. These three techniques/technologies allow you to map the surface, or ‘skin’, of an object rather than its mass. In many ways photogrammetry is a kind of digital taxidermy. Using these interrelated processes, I want to transform these scientific objects into domestic ceramics, mirroring their public/domestic nature.

Having previously worked with 3D scans, this opportunity will give me access to the facilities I need to develop my research and gain a greater understanding of the materials involved, the process and potential outcomes; it will enable me to develop and realise a new body of work specifically around this research.

Undertaking this research within an education setting, alongside students, will enable me to gain more experience within an arts education environment and pass on my knowledge and experience of being a self-employed artist. It will allow me to develop my own practice and actively reflect, through the delivery of student talks/workshops/tutorials/studio visits, on the project and the new body of work I will create.

During the project I aim to: gain a greater understanding of the interconnected relationship of photogrammetry, slip casting and taxidermy; experiment with processes and techniques for successfully communicating this relationship; share my discoveries with students through a participatory workshop; develop and exhibit a new body of work.

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