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[https://sianmcintyre.com Siân] will be using her residency to work on her PhD project titled <s>artwork</s> artists working: A study of the ways that artists make meaning beyond production.
'''Title:''' <s>artwork</s> artists working: A study of the ways that artists make meaning beyond production. '''Abstract: ''' This thesis documents a practice-led PhD research project which explores the question of how the artist might be understood separately to the artwork that they produce and how we might reframe the ways that we value the artist by studying ‘the doing’ of their artistic process and the ways that they order their lives to enable their artistic practice.
The research project draws from the researchers’ own artistic practice and experiential expertise, along with empirical research with 26 artists over 2 years, through a combination of interactive and relational studio conversations, object elicitations, and interviews, situated first in Glasgow and then in Sydney. This choice of locations was a result of the pandemic lockdowns that happened during the course of this research, as the researcher was overseas during the border closures. The closure of institutional gallery spaces during successive lockdowns in Glasgow provided a new perspective to the research, which studied the ways that artists worked between 2020 – 2022, while they were unable to exhibit artwork or engage with physical cultural spaces.
