{"id":968,"date":"2023-11-28T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-28T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=968"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:42:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:42:52","slug":"portrait-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"Portrait project"},"content":{"rendered":"
We went to Nottingham Castle and met with the curator there, Abbie, who in collaboration with Tom, has offered us the opportunity to reinterpret a portrait from their new exhibition and have ours pieces shown in the space.<\/span><\/div>\n
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I chose this oil painting titled ‘Head of a woman in profile’ painted between 1900 and 1942.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I am absolutely thrilled to have this opportunity, it’s a huge privilege and I’m excited to get started.<\/span><\/div>\n

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My initial ideas for reinterpretation themes are: feminism, religion and shame constructs. Visually I would like to focus on the object that stands out the most in the painting to me; her habit.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Because it’s painted skillfully using oils, the texture of her habit is beautifully rendered. And the white cloth has an almost luminescent quality.<\/span><\/div>\n

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My initial ideas include: <\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Making a light sculpture using porcelain of the habit.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Including humour, for example having the piece title ‘Bad Habit’ and having the word Bad cast shadow through the porcelain habit when it flickers on.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Some kind of interactive piece that explores the shame dogma so prevalent in catholicism. Maybe something to do with praying\/ kneeling stool or cushion.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Recreating a nuns habit in textiles and embroidering it. Possibly with the names of nuns affiliated with the castle\/ the local area as a gesture to honor their memory. Possibly just with the word bad.<\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Creating some really human\/ funny\/ awkward portrait photos of me in a nubs habit; think bad school or year book photos <\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Exploring religious ritual with the catholic sacraments, exploring the ideas of token Maybe even making objects for people to take away as a gift if they interact with the installation. <\/span><\/div>\n

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\u2022 Using the medium of crafts as a reference to the subjugation of women, with a modern twist to give it some bite\/ subversion. I’m thinking mediocre cross stitch like the typical religious folk art you see on pew benches\/ kneeling cushions etc.<\/span><\/div>\n

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All of the above have various logistical\/ technical making considerations which I have been speaking about with my tutors and the technicians. I will start making some test pieces this week.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I also have questions relating to the curation of the piece and have made a note of my considerations so far. Mainly is the interactive elemebt possible. And could i have a double display area if so? I will bring them up with Abbie when she visits our studios next week.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Feeling excited!<\/span><\/div>\n

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We went to Nottingham Castle and met with the curator there, Abbie, who in collaboration with Tom, has offered us the opportunity to reinterpret a portrait from their new exhibition and have ours pieces shown in the space. I chose this oil painting titled ‘Head of a woman in profile’ painted between 1900 and 1942. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":969,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}