CAITLIN KIELY

- seeing landscapes as living and breathing rather than inanimate
- explored landscape through human lens
- longer slower projects ; website design shows the relationships between works, rather than presenting as stand alone projects
- bcu course helped explore the different directions illustration could go

A CONSTRUCTIVE COEXISTENCE
- second year, walking around Digbeth
- photographed overlooked details ; nature bursting through tiles, nature rewinding itself
- researched the site, discovered it was part of a conservation project, changed her perception of it as it is more controlled
- heat pressed photographs onto flowing material, repeated process to distort the image

SECOND PROJECT
- third year, began with grandad’s photo album ; container of stories
- dad revisited memories
- ‘archive’ became the exhibition handout
- by talking and remembering, the subjects of the photo become reactivated
- interdisciplinary practice, felt comfortable moving between different areas of the school of art
- how do works speak to each other? dissolved the boundaries

ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART MA
- illustration
- BCU projects provided a strong foundation for the MA
- focus shifted onto the ways she was working, understanding them more to utilise them better
- worked between site and studio, understood the relationship between them
- how landscapes were represented in the media - key component of storytelling but reduced to a backdrop, what happens if the human isn’t in the landscape?
- writing from different perspectives, 3 ‘witness accounts’ of the same location, think about it in a 3 dimensional way

COVID
- benefit from the disruption by stopping and including the audience
- ‘the walker in the landscape’ 2 friends performed 2 roles over Zoom calls
- Zoom was a useful tool to construct distance and closeness to the work
- soundcloud file can be taken into the landscape and listened to

- set up an artist led space in Stirchley

MY THOUGHTS

Kiely's approach to idea development is what stuck with me during this presentation. I am inspired by how all of her outcomes flow together is creative ways, as well as her approach to landscapes, which I thought was something very thoughtful and unique. I also liked her work that consisted of writing, as how art and writing fit together is something new to me, and very intriguing.