Year: 2018
Type: article
Abstract: This visual interlude was an opportunity for us both to re-engage with the visual elements of our PhDs, to re-examine how illustration was a critical research tool for us within a specific study model, and how it can function within the wider study models that include hypothesis-driven, propositional, inquiry-based and experimental studies. We contribute a visual chapter to PROVOKE as a way of looking back on our initial experiences of ‘doing research’ in illustration, and how that is quite fraught in some instances. We use the term ‘fraught’ here, not to describe horror stories of bad supervisors (we each had excellent supervisors), or a lack of support by our respective university departments, but to describe the shock of making art for a PhD. Our shock was because the prior reasons for creating illustrations for commercial briefs or for community stakeholders, was suddenly changed. We present a predominantly visual paper here to illustrate the alarming journey we travelled from our being commercial artists, to higher degree students, and eventually, academics. We keep the text purposefully brief to reflect the original dominance of the images within our respective studies. In each case, the images were required to speak for themselves for us to successfully attain our doctoral qualification.
Authors: Jackie Batey, Linda Knight
Language: English
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2931988721