Miranda Carins

What are the main concerns within your practice? 

Space. Using a projector to project images or screen prints, then creating material constructions or objects to project onto. Space is a key element in my work. What I end up making is dependent on the space I’m going to project into. The reconfiguration of space through photography, then through projections. 

 

 

 

What are your biggest influences? 

Landscapes and architectural forms influence my work a lot. I like going to different places and walking around in different spaces. Recapturing them, and then dislocating them. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What’s the first thing you do when you start? what’s your process? 

The first thing I do is visit spaces and photograph them. All the photos that have been most successful in terms of what I want to achieve with them have been taken whilst walking, or going somewhere, not with the intention of photographing that space. 

 

What do you like most about the studio? 

I don’t actually like my studio. I want to move studios. 

Okay. The people really. 

The conversations, the tutors, making work.

 

 

How has your work changed over the course of your degree? 

I’ve always painted. That’s always been my go to starting point until second year. Then I started working with objects and installations. The photography came through that. I’ve now moved from the photos into projections.

I still paint. I painted last night, but that’s because I felt sad. I really did enjoy painting, and I just do it for my own hobby. It’s still part of my practice, to develop my ideas, but you wouldn’t see it in my body of work. 

 

 

What are your plans after graduation? 

Pay off my overdraft. Try and do some acting work. Continue to make work.