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Kirsty Barquist Portfolio

I wanted to continue my last two reports on portfolio with one more paper based and one more digital portfolio. I wanted to go to the museum on Friday but i was feeling unwell and i was trying to organize the next time i could go but was struggling to find the time. Once a week i go round to my sisters to catch up and help her around the house if she needs it when i had an idea, why not look at her portfolio. Although i have seen her portfolio before i had not had her go through it with me and talk about it. The first thing i asked her is why her portfolio is paper based and why it is beneficial to her. Kirsty said that not only was it beneficial to when she applied to further her education it is, to her, a log and a creative line she was going down that she has now lost.

This was very interesting to me because she was using her portfolio now completely for her own reasons, all the other portfolios i have looked at have been to sell, to apply for college or too show off work in some way. Kirsty's portfolio is for her to start again where she left off, to examine and to progress in her own art work.






All these images above are about her personal struggles with MS. This she liked to look back on and reflect on how she over come them or how she felt at the time.A portfolio is just as important to the artists as it is to who it is being shown too.

It also contained life drawings and self portraits, I learned in my other reports the reasons artists include these in their portfolio.




It made me think about my own progression and being able to look back on my work from the portfolio I am currently building and be able to see my progression. I have done this slightly before and it is interesting to see a drawings or painting, that I thought was quite good, and now I can see some of the errors in them. I think for my portfolio this is what i will be using it for, because it is my first year. 

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