Negotiated Study Proposal

I intend to create a body of photographic work that I will be continuously working on throughout the semester. The photographs themselves will be conceptually based but heavily influenced by fashion photography. Fashion photography has always inspired me but I haven’t taken many fashion focused photographs before. I will be the creative director for the shoots needed to create my folio; this entails making all the decisions on styling the hair, make up and clothing of the models.  On completion of my folio and towards the end of the semester I will exhibit at Grande’s Café and Gallery in Manuka.

I am choosing to create a body of work and have an exhibition because being a visual artist is what I intend to be, so practising writing proposals to galleries and artist statements to accompany my folio now while I am still studying will start getting me used to the process.

By working on this negotiated study I will learn how to write an artist curriculum vitae, an artist biography, an artist statement and a proposal to have an exhibition at a gallery. I will learn all this through researching Contemporary photographers and also talking to local Canberra photographers about their process.

Below is a list of the written work I will be submitting for the negotiated study

-       Artist curriculum vitae

-       Artist Biography

-       Artist statement to accompany my folio

-       Gallery proposal

-       A catalogue for the exhibition

-       Final review of the semester long project, discussing how successful it was and if it differed at all from the initial proposal

As well as the writing skills I will also learn practical skills such as;

-       discovering appropriate locations for the photo shoots

-       organising models and a hair and makeup artist

-       Styling (and scouting) the model’s outfits in each shoot.