Had to meet the external assessor today, I was so stressed last night but he was lovely, talked about plans for the future more than my artwork but he did congratulate me on my work which was great.
This week has been really strange, I thought it would feel all over but instead I spent hours over the weekend trying to do more to my journal, hadn’t been well enough until then and just thought it was worth trying to do rather than just rely on a doctors note saying I was the div who had concussion for 2 weeks!!
Then we had to meet the assessors yesterday and they chose 14 of us to go back in today and talk for half hour, its usually only 6 so we were all really shocked at 14. No-one knows why they were chosen, could be good could be bad, could be just random but it was all fine in the end.
Back to work this week too and thats odd after so long off but kind of good to be back to normality.
On reflection, the Private View went really well, I was far more nervous than I thought I was going to be and couldn’t stand by my work for too long but the time I was listening I heard a lot of really positive comments.
The general feeling was that it was great show, we had an amazing gallery space and the curation of the show worked so well. Everyone (well…nearly everyone) deserves a big well done. I am so proud to be a part of this show with such a great bunch of people, I know we will stay in touch.
Results Friday and then I have decided to apply for a Fellowship at the college, a year more there with studio space to define my own practice more before an MA may be exactly what I need. Also I think it would be a great opportunity to be in a mentor type role as ultimately I want to teach at this level. SO many are applying though that it’s a touch and go thing I think.
