Breaking Ground

TALK

Photographed my prints ready to become slides for the 2 presentations I am starting to build for the Talks in 10 days' time.

The first is on Breaking Ground and collaboration. The second is for the printmaking students. Duncan Bullen, the tutor, has asked that we talk too about how we have made artist lives for ourselves after graduating from Brighton.

I will design and email a poster for him to put on the noticeboard next.

TUTORIALS

Today I did some tutorials with the printmaking students – enjoyed this in spite of having a heavy cold. First years are preparing for their Exhibition on Monday and third years getting ready for the Final Show. I noticed how as you look critically at someone else's work and comment, you learn to look better and clarify something in your own mind or identify a muddle. Again I notice that if you help students to articulate their thoughts and feelings about the work and making the work, they find something out. It mirrors my counselling work.

One student is unsure where to begin again. I draw her attention to another blog on AN – "You can go anywhere from anywhere" Jane Ponsford's new project, a quote from Anni Albers. See her post 17 March for link to yet another blog and text.

I collected my finished prints and cleared out my plan drawer and locker.

Arranged a date for our talk on Breaking Ground – 2 weeks today.

COMPLETED SERIES OF PRINTS

Green did not work and I went back to brown. Had to work on an unfamiliar table and the 'snap' was all wrong. After a time of things going wrong, I began to get a rhythm again and completed the series of 'allotment sewings'.

BACK AT THE UNIVERSITY RESIDENCY

Today I went back to finish my prints for the Residency at the University of Brighton. Did a complete screen from start to finish. Cleaning off, coating, exposing, washing out, drying, onto the screen table, printing each of the stitches onto the vegetable names I printed in February, washed the screen off.

These sowings/sewings are in black and brown. Tomorrow I hope to do another screen using green on black.

Jiggered.

TALK ABOUT THE WORK

We had a meeting to start planning our talk for Talk About the Work at Claremont Studios, Hastings later in April.

We will focus on our collaborative partnership in Breaking Ground and see if we can widen our understanding of the way we work together/alongside and take this forwards into Stage 2 of the project. We will invite the audience to collaborate with us for the evening and open a conversation about the work and the partnership and artistic collaboration.

We have had a break while concentrating on other projects and it will be interesting to see where we stand in relation to the allotment and taking the work indoors to develop in Project Rooms.

It is sunny today and I will go to the allotment and take an April picture for this blog.