Ashley Potter
Research Plans
Project 1
2009.10
Continue ‘Breaking Bread’ with the aim to make it function as an interactive web-based project.
‘Breaking Bread’ is a community-oriented project, which seeks to build global links and foster a sense of community in today’s distant communities
2010.11
Breaking Bread has now become 'BreadShare.org' and is in beta state for the testing of the logistics of posting video on the web of varying timescales, but which are meant to join up in a continuous flowing action, yet are possible to be seen in a random sequence.
Sounded easy as an initial thought!
Collaborating with a great programmer, Andy Wood (Dr Andrew Michael Wood) who has been putting in the coding masterstrokes.
Project 2
2009.10
Timetable research days to allow redesign of professional website and portfolio for www.thedairystudios.co.uk - this includes Ashley Potter, Frank Love, Fred Brilliant, Nobby Sprouts and John Doh – all pseudonyms.
2010.11
Well as any full time academic will understand finding and identifying the head space to continue professional practice is difficult - but it's been going well - several Frank Love images were accepted for the Association of Illustrators Images 35 Best of British Illustration annual and exhibition - published this summer. Entries for American Creative Quarterly have been submitted - fingers crossed. Ashley Potter has illustrated the frontspiece for the short fiction writing by renown author, Marina Warner for 'Short Fiction' edited by Prof Anthony Caleschu.
Project 3
2009.10
Revisit ‘Plymouth Stories’ initiative. First proposed Nov 2006.
‘Plymouth Stories’ is another community-oriented project – inspired by Paul Auster’s American Stories – which would offer a focus for staff and students, and involve illustration and other students from different disciplines in research and events potentially in a wide range of locations/communities.
This may be combined with a previous interest in Roadside Memorials, to bring the hidden stories behind the various floral tributes used to mark accidents along Britain’s highways.
2010.11
This has now become part of the overall research question that everything is falling under 'How do people communicate a sense of themselves?' A side project is utilisiing the many location drawings I've done around the world (how cosmopolitan!) of people using technology in the streets. Plymouth stories is still on the list.