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Doodle Lesson Part One from Cate Field on Vimeo.

A lesson in doodling to help develop drawing skills. Originally created for my year 8 class.

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Language and SEND from Cate Field on Vimeo.

The (in)accessibility of Language

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SurrealismLesson_Year8 from Cate Field on Vimeo.

Year 8 Art lesson SurrealismLesson_Year8

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Happened this morning so I had to draw it down :3

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UCA Farnham MA Fine Art Grad Show is open all this week :)

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Testing the space in the corridor for my soundscape. I decided to leave the walls blank and remove the images altogether. I like the idea of an empty space. Minimal distractions. The sound will come form one speaker at the far end and so float towards the listener. To encourage listening, I’ve place ‘Silence’ signs on the floor at each end. I played with the idea of using the words, Quiet, Hush and Shhhhh... but thought that Silence captured the essence better.

Blue filters over the harsh lights add to the mood.

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MA_Show_Escalator_FINAL - Transition and the Ordinary. A film about the everyday.

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Inspired by Maya Angelou’s poem:

A free bird leaps on the back of the wind    and floats downstream    till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and    his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings    with a fearful trill    of things unknown    but longed for still    and his tune is heard    on the distant hill    for the caged bird    sings of freedom. The free bird thinks of another breeze and the trade winds soft through the sighing trees and the fat worms waiting on a dawn bright lawn and he names the sky his own But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams    his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream    his wings are clipped and his feet are tied    so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings    with a fearful trill    of things unknown    but longed for still    and his tune is heard    on the distant hill    for the caged bird    sings of freedom.

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Turquoise on the Escalator. I wanted to capture the idea of floating and movement separate from the moving escalator.

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Bugger! Oh Dear! I Failed My Exams: What to do Next https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B014E2F1BM/ref=cm_sw_r_oth_tai_ODkLzbBPJNSRN

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The Escalator

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MA_Show_Escalator_FINAL from Cate Field on Vimeo.

Escalator

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Part of a series looking at ordinary places. The escalator - just an ordinary scene. Experienced every day by a million people. 

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Exhibition of current work with fellow MA students showing at Platform One, Wandsworth Common Station until 16th July.

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(CateField) Experimental sound sketch evoking the chill of a city in the early hours of the morning. All sounds were recorded at Waterloo Station during the morning rush hour. Sounds have been sampled and manipulated using Audacity and Garage Band

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Beauty and Contemporary Art

Over the last few years, my work has been criticised, by some, for being ‘too beautiful’. I’ve noticed that beauty seems to have been downgraded, and what was once measured as a quality in defining good art, has now become a disparaging slur. This makes me sad. Especially if this a reflection of the current mood of society. Yes, we have experienced horror in the last 75 years, but anyone who has read any history will know that horror has existed for ever.

Perhaps it is because beauty has no clear definition and can be seen as trite, insubstantial and shallow? 

But as humans, we are drawn to beauty all the time. A sunset, a sun rise, the starry sky, a field of flowers, the colours of a lively marketplace, the smiles on people’s faces... these are moments in our day to day lives that make us feel good.

I have a positive view of the world (I’ve been criticised for this too). I believe that humans are largely kind, friendly and helpful. (By the way, I work in Education and have worked in Social Services :)). I am no Pollyanna, skipping around pretending that everything is amazing all the time, but I do enter new experiences with an outlook of wonder and delight, and so I make no apologies for the optimism and beauty in my work. This is who I am.

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Trains, people and time. Transition and ordinary life. ‘The unrecognised, that is the everyday, still has some surprises in store for us’ Lefebvre, 1998