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Issue 2: Making Conversation

Self-expression: Revisit narrative landscape painting

The essay traces my artistic evolution from realistic painting under socialist realism to a quest for artistic freedom and primarily explores the possibility of transcending the constraints of national ideology in my personal landscape paintings, aiming for self-expression. It also critically analyzes and attempts to philosophically position my painting practice based on Adorno aesthetic theories.

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Feme Covert

This essay explores the stories of wives eclipsed from history. Documenting how using feminist historiography and storytelling within my practice can make these absent lives visible and provide us with alternative histories.

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The Fundamentally Flawed Quality of a Painting

Tom is a neo-expressionist painter based in London studying an MA in painting at UAL: Camberwell. In Tom’s essay he will discuss the political economy of the modern art market.

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Women Of The NHS

These podcasts reflect my recent collaboration with Women of the NHS. This podcast is all about celebrating and collaborating with Women of the NHS, from a variety of backgrounds and roles within the NHS. I am excited to be interviewing and working with Women in various stages of their careers and across different sectors of the NHS.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Yearning for the idealised past

An essay analysing the concept of the past, nostalgia and memory.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

The uncanny in three-dimensional works

An essay discussing three-dimensional work created under the influence of Donald Judd’s ‘Specific Objects’.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Reconstructing witches in feminism

A self-interview about my research and practice in reconstructing witches under a feminist context. Here I will discuss artists, poetry, films, operas, dances and podcasts that influenced me.

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Comfort home in games online: When play is not just about fun

An essay discussing about the game. When games are not only just screen activities for enjoyment. Point out new context that games can take. Connect people with a sense of home.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Spirituality and Poetry in Painting

An essay analysing the role of spirituality and poetry in my own painting practice and other artists’ works.

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Issue 1: Research Festival

Memories of the Motherland

Video essay discussing the development of my practice through research, with personal footage filmed in Iran and documentation of my painting practice.

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How my paintings rebels the era of mass media and digital communication.

This essay, in the tone of a practice report, outlines the author’s artistic practice during the MA, discussing how painting was used as a weapon to resist the late capitalist, consumer, image-infested era.

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Painting as a returning object

This article discusses the history of object returns, and how painting, as an object both shaped and participating in the shaping of the creator’s actions, becomes a visual representation of the tension between subject and object.

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The connection between people and objects

For some people, objects are always given some special meaning. These objects can be people’s friends, can be a container that hold people’s memories, or can be a symbol that represent someone.

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The body in the in-between – painting the glitched body

This essay highlights different approaches to translate the body into the digital space and reflects on how this affects our understanding of this body.

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Bad painting appear as a phenomena

Taking “bad painting” as the phenomenon, this paper probes into my artistic methodology.