MA FINE ART FINAL EXHIBITION
Main work: Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, 1st movement (Synaesthesia 155). Acrylic on canvas, 122 x 778cm.
On plinth: First Theme Variation 1 (Synaesthesia 156). Acrylic on MDF. Installation view.
MA Fine Art Final Exhibition, University of Chester, 18-21 September 2019
My MA Fine Art Final Project focused on creating visual interpretations of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Drawing on my experiences of listening to it as an audience member, performing it as an orchestral player, and through analysis of the score, I identified musical connections within the orchestral parts and between the orchestra and the soloist.
Whilst listening to a particular performance of this music I noted down the sequence of colours I perceived through my experiences of synaesthesia; these form the background of the large painting, which has then been overlaid with transcribed patterns of key excerpts from the 1st movement, several of which are musically and visually based on its First Theme.
The large painting on canvas (approx. 1.2m high x 7.8m wide as stretched over MDF panels) was created site-specifically but, in such a way that it can be redisplayed in other locations in future, either stretched or unstretched (as can be seen in one of the images showing it hanging unstretched around a corner, in another part of the university campus).
My MA Fine Art Final Project focused on creating visual interpretations of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto. Drawing on my experiences of listening to it as an audience member, performing it as an orchestral player, and through analysis of the score, I identified musical connections within the orchestral parts and between the orchestra and the soloist.
Whilst listening to a particular performance of this music I noted down the sequence of colours I perceived through my experiences of synaesthesia; these form the background of the large painting, which has then been overlaid with transcribed patterns of key excerpts from the 1st movement, several of which are musically and visually based on its First Theme.
The large painting on canvas (approx. 1.2m high x 7.8m wide as stretched over MDF panels) was created site-specifically but, in such a way that it can be redisplayed in other locations in future, either stretched or unstretched (as can be seen in one of the images showing it hanging unstretched around a corner, in another part of the university campus).
