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On Not Knowing: How Artists Think

In 2008 I gave a paper at the Annual Art Historian’s conference entitled, ‘On not knowing what you are doing; the importance of the studio to fine art practice’. I was subsequently invited by Kettle's Yard to curate a symposium to accompany the Material Intelligence exhibition in the gallery. The book that I have edited with Lizzie Fisher includes papers from that symposium as well as others commissioned in the intervening years. My own essay draws on material gathered during a £4,990 AHRC-funded study working with artists to test methodologies in documenting artists' processes. Another edited book and symposium also emerges from this research. Paula Kane: Studio Wall brought together notes and images relating to the artist’s Studio Wall project. The book was designed as a visual record of the artist’s process, enabling the reader-viewer to find a path through the work, supplemented by responsive essays from painter Mikey Cuddihy and critic Ian Heywood as part of the research project How Art Thinks published by RGAP. I also organized a conference, ‘The Processes of Painting’, at the Swedenborg Institute.