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The Deconstructed Image. The research question compares the differing and contrasting methodologies of two drawing practitioners through visual and verbal conversations

The research question compares the differing and contrasting methodologies of two drawing practitioners through visual and verbal conversations. Middleton [PI] and Perry use differing/contrasting methodolgies; the PI explores the notion of gathering visual narritives from the location, then returning to the studio to produce a reflective, diconnected/non-literal response, whilst Perry’s methodology is based upon working ‘en plein air’ in an attempt to capture the physicallity of the subject – ‘the viseral experience’. The corpus of work began in London in 2007 with a PI curated exhibition, exploring how four practitioners defined the notion of ‘Studio/Methodology’. The PI continued the discourse to exhibit in 2010 at the RBSA and subesquent exhibitions of 2013 in the UK and France. The outputs are grouped as each ‘breath out and in’ forming the emerging discourse through the dissemination/gathering of information. The PI’s work spans 83 pieces, produced in acrylic/gouache/charcoal on board/paper.

The originality of the work is located in the emerging conversations of two practitioners who develop a discourse which commences with reflections upon ‘their contining work interests’ and progressing to locate a specific ‘shared subject’ capable of providing a rigourous comparitive methodological analyisis, which supports/tests, a challenging response to an emotive and cataclismic human event – D-Day landings of 1944. This emerging discourse is significant because it explores and documents the differing intellectual and physical processes/methodologies that occur in the production of a response, which assimilates event narritives with the subject of the ‘residual landscape’ in which they occurred.

The PI framed the research question, managed the emerging discourse, curated the exhibition series, and authored the associated publications to form the exhibition proceedings. The research enquiry resulted in an invitation to exhibit at the seminally important America Gold Beach Museum in Normandy. The exhibitions have attracted interest within various communities assisted by UK/French media coverage.