Camberwell College of Arts   2009/2010

Emma Wieslander

In my own work, often taking the landscape as a starting point, I have been exploring interrelations between the perceived, depicted and described. I am concerned with places and their meanings, including cultural, historical and geographical connotations. Often the places exist as real places as well as in a more imaginative collective consciousness. Implied is a distance with a tension- the difference between the real and imaginative, the far away versus the close and familiar as well as the described in comparison to the object. I want to further explore and learn about the relationship image-object-text and how this can be applied to my own work. I also want to furhter explore and learn about the changing ecological environment and how this can be used and become part of the art making process. Currently, I am working on a body concerned with the environment, changes in the landscape and how it is viewed historically. During the year I will continue and finallise this body of work which includes experiments with coloured glass and landscape photography within the tradition of the picturesques. Within this work I am also exploring the relationship between photography and object, and photography as a more sculptural object in the way the photograph is displayed or treated. I also wish to produce text/image based works exploring the meaning and the changing meaning of the sunset and what it means to look at and experience a sunset. Within this work I am exploring printing methods including overlaying text over image and perception in relation to this. Having access to fascilities witin the college will be enable me to experiment and finalise these works. Meeting students and exchanging ideas wil be a valuable part of the experience.