Deborah Crowe described herself as a ‘practitioner’ rather than as an ‘artist’. Then what are the difference between a practitioner and an artist? If I claim myself as an ‘artist’, normally people will think I am a painter. An artist of painting. For example, other people know Im very good at photography then I will be known as an ‘artist’ of photography. So ‘artist’ is working in a defined area of practice. Why Crowe claimed herself as a ‘practitioner’? Practitioner works in a wide range of practice as what Crowe does. She does moving images, prints, photographs, drawings and installations.
In my opinion, the issues for someone who works across a range of forms and approaches in their work is to make their work become more interesting and it is a very resultful way to explore and develop ideas. They collect bits from here and bits from there to help their idea grows and create a new form. For example, if im a jeweler, advertiser ,photographer and also a painter. I will use my knowledge of these practices to create my new forms of artwork. Collecting a bit idea from jewellry practices, a bit from photography practices, a bit from the advertising practices and a bit from the painting practices.
In this stage, I don’t see myself working in a defined area of practice because im not sure what I want to do yet. Im interested in drawing. I’v looked at many different kind of drawings and also learnt some drawing skills from school and outside of shool. But if I want to work with drawings, I will look at more informations about drawings to help me define my working area. For example, there are many different kind of drawings like illustration drawing, life drawing ect. In this year I have a chance to try a lot of things and technique which I havn’t tried before such as print making, object making, life drawing, editing of moving images ect. Since I found photography also interests me, I will look more about photography.
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