Self directed aims and objectives for 2013

To operate as a critically aware artist

• When do I know I have achieved this?
• What is a critically aware artist?
• How does a critically aware artist look like, how do I become this?
• Why is it important for me to become a critically aware artist?

To develop and explore potential trajectories

• What trajectories will sustain my interest and drive my art practice?
• How will these trajectories continually develop, explore, connect and keep spanning out to create an on-going practice?
• Who will influence and develop my on-going art practice?

Who Am I doing this for? my self or the viewer (lectures, family, friends etc..)?

• Am I creating something for the viewer to find aesthetically pleasing, rather than questioning, challenging and exploring this concept of what aesthetically pleasing means?

Provide critical feedback and to be analytical in critiques, discussions and tutorials

• How do I create a critical framework, and why or how do I have this perspective on the work? How does this perspective raise questions, cause debate, or make evaluations on the work?

Use exploratory drawings to extend my studio practice.

These are some initial objectives for this year which I want to develop to become a critically aware artist when making, discussing, evaluating and analyzing art. Each of these objectives have different potential standpoints or ideas of how or why they are crucial to my art practice. These sub-questions create constant analytical discussion and thought when considering them in context which will essentially help to become more critically aware as an artist.