First day back today and in the new studios. It is looking good with a better seminar room, drawing space, and project space. We have lost the common room and our technician is no longer based in the Fine Art dept. The technicians are in a workshop, shared by all art and design courses, it will be interesting to see how that works out. However it is good to be on the main campus, especially as it is dissertation season. It will be much easier for us to keep active in the studio as it is closer to the library and academic facilities, both physically and psychologically.
My tutor has asked me to make a presentation to level 5 students in a couple of weeks, about my professional practice. I shall look forward to reflecting on the exhibition and the blogging experience and how it is impacting what I do now.
Tomorrow I will finish painting my space and attend a dissertation seminar on
Introductions and Conclusions
My computer, having been recently wiped and refreshed, is now ready for dissertation action. I am researching early abstraction and getting to grips with the history of geometric abstract painting, before writing about contemporary reductive painting. I have found that alternating reading with drawing is helping me to absorb and reflect on the information. I’ll need to keep this going…
Our Fine Art Dept has moved into a refurbished building on the main Bucks campus. I can’t wait to see my space and to get painting. I have missed the studio over the summer, particularly after the intense working period running up to the professional practice exhibition. My studio ‘shed’ at home is full of canvases, paper, materials so it is difficult to work on a large scale, though I do enjoy working on a smaller scale there.
Hopefully we will have details of our tutorials, and the date for when we give a presentation of our dissertation plans, on Wednesday, our first day back.
Back to work after a great summer break. I’ll soon to be starting Level 6, in my fourth year.
The main focus of the next few months will be my dissertation, my proposal has been approved and I am now reading through a large pile of books to check I’m zoning in on the right area of the subject, I’m a way off making notes though, just several scrawled mind maps.
My previous posts documented the process of developing paintings for the professional practice exhibition of last semester. I think I might use the blog to record elements of the research that relate to my studio practice and may get lost along the way!
