Bertie (Bear) Thomas


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L6 Research



Sketchbook L6 2023-2024
This shows the bulk of my research, and the importance of experimentation and making as my main form of research in my practice. 
Artist Research 
Hendl Helen Mirra
Thinking about folded clothes in regards to hill roll piece - how these exist in a space at what it conveys to have them folded
the minimal use of textile to convey somewhat of a sculptural form
flat form becoming scultural - use of ‘humble materials’

mapping movements - walking in the countryside - textile natural material
use of found pallets in compositions
wool blankets creating a scene
and how that changes once the textile is folded
feel similar in my sence of currently living in a city detached from making in the countryside - and also an ability to let work make itself - i feel once an idea is conceptualised i must let it make itself 
interesting feelings about walking and buddhism - i was buddhist for 7 years -  interest in accesible action and its realtion to art



Artist Research 
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979


Artist Research 
Misc
Radical Landscapes Exhibition guide. Tanoa Sasraku - interest in the contexts of their more visually simple works - culture and symbols

Radical Landscapes Exhibition guide. Tanoa Sasraku
interesting points in undertsanding conceptual art




Artist Research 
Radical Landscapes 
Whilst this book and exhibition were more influential to me earlier in my course i still go back to it, seeing it as my entry point into understanding connections of the landscape and the rural into contemporary art. Particularly the works of Tanoa Sasraku, Ingird Pollard, the Kibbo Kift etc. in regards to uses of textile, banner works, and cultural identity. 


Technical research - Making and Experimenting
 
Pattern used to make calico trousers
Video that helped me learn how to make trousers and understand sewing patterns
Pattern used to make t-shirt
Video to help with making the t-shirt
Learning to use PremierPro Software
Bookbinding and embossing practice
Bookbinding and embossing practice
mapping marks before sewing
research into skimming locations
research into skimming locations
research into skimming locations


Research Books and Articles

- The Rural, Whitechapel Books
- The Everyday, Whitechapel Books
- Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution, Helen Carnac
- Art and Queer Culture, Catherine Lord, Richard Meyer
- Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain, Hayward Publishing
- Land Art, Michael Lailach
- Romantic Conceptualism, Jorg Heiser
- Radical Landscapes, Tate
- Sentences on Conceptual Art, Sol LeWitt
- Paragraphs on Conceptual Art, Sol LeWitt
- Overlay : contemporary art and the art of prehistory, Lucy Lippard




Exhibitions, talks, Etc.  attended during L6

- New Arrangements, PINK Gallery
- Muck and the Mire, Paradise Works
Noted the use of materials in exhibiting - what existed as art and what was an extension of the exhibition almost like a plinth- also film work and slow shots- Women in Revolt, Tate Britain
- Unravel, Barbican
Textiles - interesting quilt work but nothing standing out as i hoped, some interesting small works using quilt methods by Feliciano Centirion - Soufiane Ababri, Barbican- Claye Bowler, Bunker Talk
was interested in much of what Claye spoke about in regards to professional practice, reaching out to people, taking jobs etc.- Myths and Narrative for Our Times, Panel Talk with Jeremy Deller, Factory International - Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery,  Whitworth Art Gallery
enjoyed certain ways the textiles are hung in this exhibition, especially the metal frames coming out the wall to drape fabric- A Fine Tooth Comb, HOME
noted an interest in the shop-sign like ways of hanging draws and the minimal markings on the large fabric installation- TEES, Rogue  Artists’ Studios
- A Queer Archive of the North: artist talk with Stuart Linden Rhodes. Bound Art Book Fair, Whitworth Art Gallery- Rosemarie Castoro: Trap A Zoid, Mostyn, Wales
- Yorkshire Sculpture Park 
- Jonathan Baldock: Touch Wood,  The Weston- Scottish Fisheries Museum
- Rogue Artists’ Studios, Open Studios
- Bankley Studios & Gallery, Open Studios
- Paradise Works, Open Studios

- all enrichment talks
- weekly group meetings with the Queer Reading Group