PhD Practice Options

Portrait Practice - Issues that are important to me

The painted portrait from life -I paint directly from life rather than from photographs in all my work, particularly portraits. This makes paintings a time based medium. Recording the human response to the subject over the time it is painted in. 

Being a human response rather than 'mechanical' means that it is subjective; effected by the emotions of the painter and the relationship of the painter to the subject making it unique to the period it was painted in.

Immortalising a moment in an artefact, - presenting and celebrating the personal

The act of committing an image to canvas still imbues the subject with implied value, for various historic and material reasons.  
Making a painting of a person, direct from life; a unique artefact in a historically weighted medium, is effectively a way of showing you value the subject, as is exhibitingit

It is a human response (rather than electronic/photographic)


Contemporary relevance

Celebrity culture

Pushing the medium and my technique

Lecturing - the primary reason I want to do a PhD

Why do I want to do lecturing?

I enjoy :
talking about art,
discussing with artists their work and their motivations,
The practicalities of practice
helping artists find their direction
I have gained a taste for these things running an artist development space / studio and I would like to take it further

PhD factors - A list to be going on with

PHD
lecturing,
practice
research
portraiture
contemporary relevance
engagment
cultural and socio economic factors

PhDs What do I do to apply and what does PhD actually entail?

How do I write a research proposal? What should it contain? what do I actually want to do ? Can I shape a PhD to be what I want t do? What do I want to do? What are my interests, concerns and motivations in art and life for that matter?
Research or practice?