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My first response to the brief: charcoal drawings made of a denim jacket - which I explored both from the Outside, and then Inside.

My thoughts turned towards knowing what is Inside in order to understand what is Outside.

Drawings in no particular order.

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At the heart of the mapping..

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Mind mapping

Ideas and thoughts taken in a few directions.

From natural Outside world, through socio-political themes describing the Outside in terms of the human condition.

Themes such as Race, Religion, Social Status, Politics, Territory, Feminism surfaced in various ways.

Many human conditions create barriers, walls, boundaries, barricades, fences, shields, disguises - on the Outside.

Protection, Defence, Aggression, Secrecy, Control, Privacy.

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My selected artist; Kara Walker and her work "A Subtlety", an immense sculpture made from Sugar.

This depicts the plight of enslaved African American women to the sugar plantations, and how this affects not only those original slaves but also subsequent generations.

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Images courtesy of Google search.

A Subtlety

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Artist: Cindy Sherman

Using clown masks, make-up and prosthetics to chsnge her features and appearance for a series of photographs

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Artist: Renee Cox 'Hottentot Venus'; prosthetics worn by the artist to represent the misogynistic and racist gaze - of men, and women.

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Artist Man Ray "Noire et Blanche". This came to my attention only after I had begun to consider my composition - but helped me to consolidate my ideas. The ebony mask contrasts strongly with the model's (artist's wife) pale alabaster like complexion.

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Thinking of the body politic

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What do we use to protect, to divide, to restrict?

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What kind of "skins" are in nature?

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Bark - representing a skin barrier?

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Who would create a barrier around their identity - and with what and how?

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Perhaps - a veil?

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Or something with more defence - or prickly?

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Trying out materials and shapes

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Back to a full body - exposed

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Back to the drawing board (sketchbook)

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Trying out some collaged paper

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What about a veil of silk or cotton - which some religious communities use to cover women? Inscribed with Inside thoughts?

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Radio Times - example of layering different themes together - an idea?

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Hiding in plain sight - masking not revealing

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Pressing wild flowers - for collage?

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Layering another skin ?

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Finding another way to layer skin but bark proved inflexible even when dampened

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Maybe - will this adhere to the surface?

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Drying out papier mache face mask - in the sunshine

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Making 'inks' using foraged wild and garden flowering plants - for painting?

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Testing ink

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So many inks - not so many tints

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A small range of tints

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Selfie hand modelling

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A friend is hand modelling

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Sketching

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Pressed flowers - collage?

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Cyanotype coloured mask - glue discoloured and disturbed the surface. Disaster but used to advantage as this can represent 'a different' skin. Adding and assembling foraged collage materials

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More masks, more textures

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Forage ink slipped off the surface! Water colour pigment substituted. The red paeonia flowers made a delicate mauve tint on plain water colour paper, but on newspaper papier mache - nothing

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Wax resist was used for the cyanotype coloured mask

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Heavy cartridge paper to attach masks to canvas. Pegs for clamps

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First layer - after a couple of days wilted and flattened Yellow paeonia flowers tint

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Various inscription words

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Practising writing - calligraphy pen, kebab stick

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Making paper hands, practising writing with wild bird feather quills

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Hands and writing. Quink black mixed with Ultramarine (W&N) for better definition

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Previous attempts using forage inks

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Various composition trials

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Beginning the production line

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Tinting the background using a few forage inks in "sky"

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The inscriptions completed - using both kebab stick and feather quill

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Assembly - with or without this hand?

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Bibliography & Resources

Google Arts and Culture online

Tate Papers online

Tate Kids online

BBC iPlayer, onscreen, streaming

SkyArts, onscreen, streaming

UCA arts exhibition at James Hockey Foyer gallery

Anomie Review Contemporary British Painting by Matt Price

David Hockney by Chris Stephens and Andrew Wilson

Art Now Vol 2 by Uta Grosenick

Seeing Ourselves - Womens' Self Portraits by Frances Borzello

Creative Thinking by CJ Hollins

Frida Kahlo, Masterpieces of Art by Julian Beecroft

Egon Schiele by Esther Selsdon and Jeanette Zwingerberger

Mask Marks, a Coursework Guide from The Tate