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Amelie Nicholson
May 2, 20212 min read
FMP Week 12
I started my final week by repainting the trees to make them stand out from the sky and to create depth. I started to paint in the...
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Amelie Nicholson
Apr 22, 20212 min read
FMP Week 11
Looking back at last week's progress, I realised that the house and tent were too colourful and blended into the background. I decided to...
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Amelie Nicholson
Apr 20, 20211 min read
FMP Week 10
This week I mapped out the composition onto my final outcome and started adding layers of paint to build up the different elements. I...
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Amelie Nicholson
Mar 28, 20211 min read
FMP Week 9
This week I started my final outcome, which is an acrylic painting on canvas. I began by building and stretching the canvas, before...
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Amelie Nicholson
Mar 23, 20212 min read
FMP Week 8
This week my focus was to plan my final outcome, so I am ready to start it next week. I began by making a final composition collage on...
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Amelie Nicholson
Mar 16, 20212 min read
FMP Week 7
Following on from my research into people hiding in the war, I looked at air raid shelters, where people used to hide to protect...
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Amelie Nicholson
Mar 5, 20213 min read
FMP Week 6
I started the week by research the science of fear and wanted to find out why we get scared. I read an article [Newman, 2018] about the...
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Amelie Nicholson
Feb 27, 20214 min read
FMP Week 5
This week I decided on my mantra: 'To what extent is concealment comforting?' I chose this because I wanted to explore human nature and...
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Amelie Nicholson
Feb 13, 20212 min read
FMP Week 4
I started my experimentation looking at the physical act of hiding and asked my family to hide so I could photograph them where they...
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Amelie Nicholson
Feb 6, 20213 min read
FMP Week 3
I started this week’s visual research by looking at ways people can physically conceal something. I made mixed media drawings of door...
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Amelie Nicholson
Jan 30, 20214 min read
FMP Week 2
I started my second week of FMP by doing some contextual research around my theme. I began by reading a local article (Metcalfe, 2019)...
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Amelie Nicholson
Jan 22, 20214 min read
FMP Week 1
For my visual research, I wanted to explore as many areas of concealment as I could. I started by looking at my garden because the plants...
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Amelie Nicholson
Jan 21, 20211 min read
FMP Planning and Preparation
When be diverse enough and preparing for my final major project, I thought about past concepts that I hadn't explored fully. In past...
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Amelie Nicholson
Jan 17, 20212 min read
Focused Experimentation and Production of Outcome 3
For my outcome 3, I decided to revisit my research about thresholds. I looked at the process of entering religious spaces and how our...
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Amelie Nicholson
Jan 16, 20212 min read
Production of Outcome 1
I started the production of outcome 1 by creating an underpainting from my collage plan. I used watered-down acrylic painting to map out...
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Amelie Nicholson
Jan 3, 20212 min read
Production of Outcome 2
From my storyboard, I made my animation using fineliner on paper and taking photographs after each line. I put all these images together...
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Amelie Nicholson
Dec 8, 20202 min read
Focused Experimentation- Outcome 2
My second outcome is installation and I initially planned to fill a room with projections of the afterlife. In the peer review, it was...
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Amelie Nicholson
Nov 29, 20204 min read
Focused Experimentation- Outcome 1
From my idea generation for alternative postcards, I decided to focus on the concept of talking to God. In the peer review, it was...
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Amelie Nicholson
Nov 22, 20203 min read
Idea Generation
The first outcome I chose was installation and the task is to temporarily install a piece of work that the public can experience with...
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Amelie Nicholson
Nov 16, 20207 min read
Focused Mantra Research
How do people act in religious spaces and when faced with their own mortality? My mantra for the environment project is focused on the...
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