It is the day after the Graduation Ceremony. Since the last blog the Degree Show has come and gone, the video accompaniment to the premiere of ‘Voyager’ (composed by Warren Greveson) at Beaumaris Festival 2012 took place on July 6 and a show of our Degree Work opened last night at Bangor Museum and Art Gallery with the associated celebrations. Oh yes, and I also gave a talk at the Beaumaris Festival on the origins and development of my obsession with the sublime while at Coleg Menai.
My work in the Entrance Corridor to the Art Block was completed on-time and it was great to discuss my work with friends who visited the show. The video work I produced for the Beaumaris Festival gig also set me thinking about re-working an earlier video project involving footage and sound from Dinorwig Power Station and the National Slate Museum. I will do that later in the summer. The re-hang of work at the Bangor Museum and Art Gallery meant that ‘stone in a sea of fog’ was now seen against a slate-flag floor and looks serene, a great improvement over the industrial carpet of the entrance corridor in the Degree Show. (I know, I know, it was my choice to show it there…!) I also accompanied that with the photographic fog interventions from that previous module.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the staff on the BA Fine Art programme at Coleg Menai for all their tutoring/help over the course of the degree and to extend very special thanks to Helen Jones and Emrys Williams, our exemplary final year course tutors.
I also wish to thank Anne for all her love and unstinted support.
I hadn’t really expected this feeling but yesterday I felt a final sense of completion on going through the Degree Ceremony…strange but satisfying.
I got a First…onward.
