Shannon Fennell Artist

So far this year - from September - I've not had many periods of decent vision.  I've had no vision in my right eye and only about 50-60% in my left on a good day.  So, I've been struggling to be productive. What I've got to show for my efforts (related to the program) is the following. I was able to get into the Printing studio in September and do some A1 prints. I did it (I am planning two more hopefully end of February after my surgery) on the offset press, It was a learning process - the first press was a bit messy due to me flicking white for "stars" which ran in the rolling process. But I was pretty happy with the third pull. The second pull is hung up in the Printing studio, so these photos are the first, third and fourth pull. I know, if I want to do another like this to use acrylic paint very precisely, not flick the inks! Plans for the next two A1 prints are an abstract (similar to the work below - the cut-up stuff) and a landscape of sorts.  I had b...

Writing Assignment December 14, 2023 A Manifesto: Looking art or political manifestoes, write a manifesto for yourself or for an imagined/proposed project that considers questions of sustainability, care, resources, value, and/or labour. A modern manifesto is a statement of purpose and a script for action that will allow you, as a citizen of the creative world, to recruit yourself to your own cause, navigate bravely, and share your unique position with others.

Writing Assignment November 28, 2023: Tracing Material:  Choose a material or commodity as your focus. Write a short text that discusses or examines or describes this material in relation to one or two works of contemporary art or cultural production. Old Growth   Self-portrait with Big Machine and Ancient Sitka 1993, 72” x 72”, acrylic Robert Bateman, CM OBC RCA (born 24 May 1930) Canadian naturalist and painter, born in Toronto, Ontario. The following (in italics) is the artist's own words about this work: This shows a back view of me with my hand on an enormous tree stump with a big machine behind my head. It is quite a large painting owned by the Victoria Art Gallery. When the Artists for Nature Foundation was started, the idea came from the Carmanah Project, where a number of environmental organizations such as the Western Canada Wilderness Committee, brought artists into the Carmanah valley to paint before it was logged. The biggest Sitka Spruce in the world ...

Writing Assignment Nov 14, 2023: Follow up one of the threads or concepts of the cavern/void that you feel connected to or associated with. Working with reference to an artwork or artworks write a story or fable that explores an aspect of art making or viewing. Leonardo and The Cave The Virgin of the Rocks , Leonardo da Vinci (1483–1486), Oil on panel (transferred to canvas), 199 cm × 122 cm (78.3 in × 48.0 in), Louvre, Paris.   Around the age of 28 years Leonardo da Vinci went hiking alone in Tuscan bills near Florence. On this hike he came across a cave… "Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the mouth of a great cavern, in front of which I stood some time, astonished," he recalled. "Bending back and forth, I tried to see whether I could discover anything inside, but the darkness within prevented that. Suddenly there arose in me two contrary emotions, fear and desire—fear of the threatening dark cave, desire to see whether there were any m...