Mega Group Crit - 29/10/18

The feedback given at during the mega crit made me question my current work slightly. I’m well aware that I need to make more work and I wish I had more prepared to show my peers. Some of the feedback I received was related to the ideas I’d already considered in my head because of this making some feedback slightly less useful than others (this is my own fault). The feedback has made me question where my work is headed as I have been slightly unclear on where to go and whether to just stick to a specific subject (such as animal testing) or delve further into the changing laws surrounding Brexit.  

A lot of the feedback asks whether I plan on focusing on one specific subject or looking at more changes caused by Brexit which is something I need to think about further, considering time and extra research. Although, I also received praise for taking the aesthetics of 1960s protest posters and using them to cover more modern topics such as Brexit. I plan on further exploring different mediums that would fit under the same naïve, flat appearance of the prints and focus on how this could be made affective in modern society. 

Reviewing the feedback, I need to continue playing with shape. For example, experimenting more with the shapes of the animals. Could there be more emphasis on the scale or contortion of the animals’ body. As well as testing more with colour, which I have been struggling with slightly as I feel obligated to use a singular colour trying to relate my work too closely to the protest posters of the past. I could further experiment with more use of colour by still continuing to use one colour but considering line and texture to separate each area. 

I plan on also tightening up my research question to make it more suitable to the work I am creating in response to Brexit. Is it just the aesthetics of the 1960s protest posters that generated the possibility of a civil war in France? Or was it the physical use of a printed image and the sense of community when creating the work? Narrowing this down would drastically help me focus my practical work to create a strong opinion that stands for all. I need to consider printing my designs large scale and putting them online making them accessible for others to print out. This could create the sense of ‘we’re all in this together’ in a more contemporary fashion.