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To begin this assessment, I consulted back to the feedback on Assessment 1. This approach not only aided in better consolidating my research question but also to better navigate the nexts steps in what I should focus and research about my topic.

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In reflection of assessment 1, I found my feedback to be quite vague and unhelpful. I was told that my research questions lacked specificity or direction yet did not really receive much aid in determine what alternate research questions could be or what direction to take for this literature review. I am now even more unsure of what direction I want to take for this literature review. I will go back to my assessment 1 and make some adjustments to make it more helpful to this current assessment.

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Research Question: What are the visual techniques and processes that have been and can be adopted to express the unreliability of memory?

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Research Question: What are the visual techniques and processes that have been and can be adopted to express the unreliability of memory?

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Going off the feedback, it was determined that this research question was probably my strongest. I believe that this will be the basis and direction of my literature or contextual review - it is now that I wish to determine which type of review is best suited for me to complete for this assignment.

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Considering the Options: Contextual vs Literature

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Considering the Options: Contextual vs Literature

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To better determine which route I wanted to take for this assignment I followed the processes outlined in the moodle.

The questions listed below, and included in the week 7 tab, I hope to use and fill out to determine the best approach to take. These will be filled out on an external document.

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Notion and Google Docs: How I am using it. 

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Notion and Google Docs: How I am using it. 

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I aim to use notion and google docs, as I usually do for all my subject and assignments, to organise and store all of my research and note-taking.

To start i am going to go back to the resources i have already have identified as relevant to this project in some capacity from 304 or 390 to assess whether they can apply to this assignment too.

I hope this gives me more direction to garner other sources as well.

Google docs will allow me to table and note take each source as well as serve as the program where I will write my draft paragraphs.

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Found this feedback really helpful. From this feedback I have better direction for this assignment.

The research question will now be:

What are visual techniques and processes that have been adopted by [insert specific medium here] to represent the unreliability of memory?

I am going to insert "figurative painting" into the medium section as I believe it will provide a good amount of resources without being to narrow .

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Potentially re-using the following sources 

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Potentially re-using the following sources 

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Gibbons, J 2007, Contemporary Art and Memory: Images of Recollection and Remembrance, I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited, London pp. 15-24

Robertston, J & McDaniel, C 2016, Themes in Contemporary Art, 4th edn, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, pp. 181 - 218

Kasabova, A 2009, On Autobiographical Memory, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, pp 1-3.

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I used UOW Library and the Google Search engine to find my contextual sources.

Google search proved more effective in sourcing contextual artist examples than the library resource did, giving me more insight into the actual practices and perceptions of contemporary artists.

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Because I planned to re-use some sources, mainly the theoretical and academic based sources were revisited through the UOW library.

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26.09.25 - filtering and sorting my sources

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26.09.25 - filtering and sorting my sources

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In my google doc in order to better plan this assignment I began listing all of my sources and deeming whether or not they would be relevant to my assessment or not - marking the green ones as yes, yellow as maybe and deleting the irrelevant ones.

From there I sorted them into where I would address them in my paragraph structures.

These sources were obtained through the UOW library, past research for my 390 subject as well as from google scholar.

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Introduction: Applications adopted by figurative painting that explore the unreliability of memory + give evidence that memory is considered unreliable + highlight how it offers insight into the interpretations of these ideas.

Body 1: Distortion

Looking into the visual techniques that distort the elements within an art work composition - this is achieved mostly through blurring and fragmenting components of the image to perpetuate ambiguity.

Sources that apply:

Unreliable Witness Article about Luc Tuymans (artist example)

Links to Robertson and McDaniel (theoretical underpinnings)

Flint’s Painting Memory (theoretical underpinning)

Gerhard Richter (artist example)

Daniel Green (artist example)

Sylivia Radford (artist example)

Body 2: Erasure

Looking into the artist practice of eliminating or blocking out ephemera and figures from the compositions - bolsters audience engagement with the theme of memory to be more collective than personal.

Sources that apply:

Ekube (artist example)

Sophie Pearson (artist example)

Link to Robertson and McDaniel (theoretical underpinning)

Link to Gibbons (theoretical underpinning)

Sylvia Radford (artist example)

Tate Reference on Erasure (contextual evidence)

Body 3: Filtering and Fabrication

Looking into how figurative painters adopt layering, transparency or  re-ordered imagery to perpetuate a particular narrative or perspective of the composition.

Sources that apply:

Robertson and McDaniels (theoretical underpinning)

Guardian article

Daniel Green (artist example)

Sylvia Radford (artist example)

Alex Routlette (artist example)

MAFA Research blog

Flint’s Painting Memory (theoretical underpinning)

Conclusion: addressing the critical gap - what can be added or what I can add to the conversation.

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Used a checklist structure along with multiple paragraph tabs to begin drafting the review paragraphs. Checklist ensured I was including all the research I had done for this assignment.

This approach was completed for all the paragraphs of this assignment.

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Utilising my resource table I began writing my assessment.

I went back and edited multiple times WITHOUT any use of any AI.

After the writing and editing was completed:

Just to confirm my assignment was on the right track and before submission I used ChatGPT once to make sure what I had written conformed to the strucutre and expectations associated with a contextual review.

I used this prompt: Is this considered good for a contextual review?

The above image was its response and I edited my own work accordingly in reference to the feedback.

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The last area I had to complete for this assignment was the reference list as well as update this padlet.

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Used the UOW Harvard referencing guide in order to complete the final reference list of this assignment.

I used this time to ensure all my intext referencing was also correct.

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All research notes and additional draft documents can be provided if needed.