Paula Kane Studio Wall

Paula Kane Studio Wall was produced as part of 'How Art Thinks', a collaborative project engaging with artists' practice and process.

It brings together notes and images relating to the artist’s
Studio Wall project, in which Kane exhibited a wall-mounted assemblage of evidence that also functioned as an artwork in its own right. It has been designed as a visual record of the artist’s process, enabling the readerviewer to find a path through the work, supplemented by responsive essays from painter Mikey Cuddihy and critic Ian Heywood. The book is the first in a series produced by the International Centre for Fine Art Research at UAL as part of the research project How Art Thinks. The project takes artist’s publication as one of several sites of creative and critical enquiry, providing insight into the visual, material and intellectual processes of making. It aims to find creative ways to document artists’ decision-making
processes, as well as listening and responding to artists’ narratives.

ICFAR was one of 12 University-based centres and units at the University of the Arts London, and the only centre specifically focused on fine art practice based research. Hosted at Central Saint Martins, the centre worked across the University as a hub for collaborative research and as a network that brought artists and researchers together in forums, from closed, intimate workshops to public discussions and laboratories. ICFAR worked across the spectrum of fine art practice. All fine art staff at UAL were eligible to propose collaborative projects to the Centre. ICFAR provided support, and helped to generate new projects. A regular salon took place, Ideas and Aperitifs, where staff could meet each other and present new work, and a research leadership forum that focused on the nuts and bolts of writing funding applications. ICFAR were actively engaged in supporting doctoral students through seminars and master classes, and organising doctoral research events in collaboration with other UAL centres, other universities, and in conjunction with the Research Network University of the Arts London (RNUAL), the University wide research-training programme.

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