Bucks Uni Studio | Update
The studios have been cleared ready for the degree show build. As with the previous years this time always seems to arrive abruptly just as the work is flowing. The space I had this year was 8ft x 4ft, sometimesa challenge with the larger paintings when the ‘grab’ space had already been grabbed.
It is an odd time for the part time group I am in as we have already started our final ‘year’ and need to keep the momentum going so we don’t slip between the focus on the full time student’s timetable. We have kept the conversation about our work moving with each other as we have had no formal crits etc. and this has been very helpful. When we are back in September things will very quickly speed up and we will need to manage our time well. Although the course is longer for us we obviously have the same number of elements as the full time students. We do however get the extra benefit of having the opportunity of helping with five exhibition builds and seeing how the layout is taylored each year to the content and the students requirements !
How does it work for you? Can you request a specific space or build for your work? Is it organised by negotiation or by tutors?
Please comment….
Studio Shed | Update
I have been working on several canvases for an upcoming group show curated by my fellow student at Bucks, Danielle Teper. The exhibition will be at Wolfson College, Oxford, June 12th-July 1, 2011.
I do have some recent work I could show but I really want to make something new with the space and wall in mind.The deadline is close.
My current work is a continuation of the small drawings I started during our dissertation semester. By incorporating drawing and painting my aim is to find the ‘meeting point’ where these elements encounter each other and only just hold together; when the visual rhythm, sound, surface tenson and illusion coincide. The exciting activity in the studio is the decision making.
Marion Piper – Work in Progress | Wolfson
Prompted by the excerpt of my blogger profile published in the a-n Degree Show supplement, I re-read the interview and have been reflecting on the changes in my practice since last summer. Everything mentioned is still relevant. However there are some significant developments taking place.
I have realised how little I knew/know of current international painting and through researching my dissertation the axis of my view point has shifted which has given me both context and confidence.
Drawing has become very important. As activity and also within the paintings.
I realise that my relationship to ‘source material’ is changing. I feel now that I was looking for/at, certain places and things as source material. Now I recognise that these ‘inspirations’ are in fact simply examples of what I am already thinking about and responding to. So, now I am attempting to work directly from this position. It feels good.
My experience in February of four days in New York, walking in the city and visiting galleries and museums, had a huge impact on me. From the strength in the simplicity of the work of reductive artists, Kelly[1], Judd, Le Witt, Ryman to the punch of the masters at the Met and MoMA; everything was humming. An inspirational trip to Brooklyn to meet Matthew Deleget at MINUS SPACE[2] (Dissertation subject) was very motivating.
I have been working on several canvases in the studio, layering drawing and painting.
[1] http://www.matthewmarks.com/exhibitions/2011-02-12…
[2] http://www.minusspace.com/
