Well, the big news of the week is….. I won the competition in college, which came as a great surprise. A few of the entries were really good so I was genuinely shocked that I won but hey, woohoo to me. I will get some prize money for myself but also they are paying to fabricate my piece of work which will be a couple of thousand pounds, very exciting stuff. More importantly I will be able to use all the work & research towards my site specific elective work, imagine how brilliant it will be to have a professionally fabricated steel artwork to show to the assessors. What’s even more fantastic is because my work will only cost about £2K to make, our lecturer persuaded the company to take an extra piece of work so my friend Julie also has a commission now, so pleased for her too.
I have a seminar to go to on Wednesday, 9 of us present a brief seminar on our essay’s and have a question and answer session, should be really interesting to hear everyone else’s research and ideas.
The Long Night of the Biennial that I mentioned last week was a great night; we viewed a phenomenal amount of art, walked for miles and still managed a good few pubs in between, my cold was much worse the next day but so worth it!!! Saw Sarah Sze work at The Bluecoat again and it re-enforced to me that I have made the right decision choosing her piece to write about.The next day went to see the Biennial work at Pilkingtons Warehouse, again all impressive but what stood out most to me had to be Yayoi Kusama’s light installation which was utterly mesmerising. An unreal infinity that you could stay in all day.
On top of all this, I have worked incessantly on Critical Study write ups all through Reading Week and am glad to be back in college to actually ‘make’ things again. Oh, also this week I volunteered on a collage workshop at the Williamson Art Gallery. Thoroughly enjoyed it and have offered my services again whenever the organiser needs me. Some of the works were really impressive and It was such a buzz to see the kids faces when they realised they had actually produced a piece of art that then went up on the wall of the gallery.
