The BUILD residency is officially over! This was marked by the private view and public talk last week. A lot of the people who came were students or staff from University College Falmouth (who I know as a recent graduate) and offered quite particular feedback as a result.
The questions prompted me to think about how my practice has changed since this time last year when I was preparing to put up my (BA) degree show. My practice has become less diverse, more focussed? The last few months have been about simply ‘being’ with materials in many ways. This became quite evident when I gave my talk and began to reference process and material an obsessive amount.
I think the work at the BA show contained a lot of baggage which I’ve temporarily left behind. The support work that was a necessary part of the degree ….the weight of all those visual and critical references hasn’t been lost but has perhaps just been hidden behind a more direct, intuitive, and physical approach to making. A natural step having taken a break from education perhaps?
But there are things that I want to go back to, revise, and re-access now. This intense focus on making has come to an end for a moment and my intention is to spend some time re-fuelling; to read, write, talk, listen, draw, go for some coastal walks and catch up with some friends! (and I’ll be starting a new blog soon which will follow my thoughts and ideas before starting an MA at the RCA in September)
