rosie gunn
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Digital Artist and Lecturer |
| Location | Farnham (near London!!), Surrey, United Kingdom |
| Introduction | At my research presentation last year some interesting questions were asked about why I would want to make work about my children and try to pass it off as research? So I guess I am currently trying to rationalise this and work out my methodology? This year, as yet, I haven’t taken any research leave to reflect on this in depth, but I am using this blog to collect my thoughts and track emerging themes. Firstly, I think it is very important to make clear that the work is about my experience of motherhood just as much or perhaps even more than it is about the children. My work has always been about rejecting the camera’s point of view as ‘male’ and through this particular work I am casting myself, the artist, as ‘a mother watching’. Occasionally, I too, appear in the work so I guess I am making an acknowledgement of self-portraiture within the work. |
| Interests | photography, video, sound, digital convergence, the artist as ‘a mother watching’, childrens' games, words, songs, teenage activities, education, communication, motherhood and women artists, |
| Favorite movies | Time of the Gypsies, Edward Scissor Hands, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, Her Lover |
| Favorite music | B52s, Kraftwerk, Funkadelic, The Fall, PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Portishead, old school hip hop (for Sam!) |
| Favorite books | Cloud Atlas, Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night |