I found Ai Wei Wei a rather over-hyped affair, whilst my Fine Art colleagues seemed to be buzzing after seeing an art celebrity’s work I felt rather flat. To summarise my thinking; seeing Ai Wei Wei at the Royal Academy was a bit like seeing a hipster in Buckingham Palace, two worlds colliding creating a confused conversation. Enough said.
Emily Godden’s practice is currently focused around printmaking stretched into its broadest sense of existence to explore, document and translate both physically and naturally occurring traces through the medium of print. In recent work she has used sound as a mechanism to transmit data and communicate traces to exploit the essence of print in a post-digital landscape. Living in Ipswich Emily Godden is currently studying BA (Hons) Fine Art at UCS and has exhibited work at Tate Britain, Spike Island, Firstsite, The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts and was recently shortlisted for the Batsford Prize for Fine Art.
