Neg1 Part 1
Here’s a quick look at what the other guys have been up to for Negotiated Study 1, no details, just an overview to give a flavour.
Pressure has been telling and for some the work/life juggle has been too much, two of us haven’t made it from the corridor show I posted in November.
Check out Moopsy Archer’s blog at Glyndwr University 1, same course, different perspective.
The focus shifts again this coming week. gimme shelter is now up and running and ready for assessment on Monday. My Blurb book is in transit and will be here on Monday, my tutors are happy for me to include it as soon as it arrives.
So as I said, the focus shifts, with no access to the studios for a week it’s time to put the dissertation to bed. It’s going to be a substantial re-write, the subject (the relevance of local in contemporary art) wasn’t interesting me sufficiently and was a diversion from my practical work. The intention is to shift the focus of the virtual exhibition to deal more directly with how my chosen artists (Heather and Ivan Morison and Carwyn Evans) and others deal with the subject of home. This will tie in much more directly with the practical work so both should benefit.
Meanwhile when I need a break from that, I’ll be putting together a digital portfolio of images and short video extracts together with a statement for the first of a number of applications to get my work into open shows, the deadline for this first one is 14th February.
In the meantime I’m allowing myself to get a little excited over an approach from a small contemporary gallery here in Wales about a prospective solo show of the gimme shelter work as a direct result of putting my work onto Facebook. The same thing happened to one of my tutors too so I would urge anyone reading this to make as much digital noise as possible, it really can pay off.
Some more installation views of gimme shelter installed in my studio space ready for assessment.
One of the things that took time was getting the lighting right, I needed relative dark for the lightboxes and video, but brighter light for the 2D pieces. I managed to manipulate the light by installing battens across the top of the studio space below the fluorescent lights and stapling black gardener’s fleece to provide shade where I wanted it.
The name of the game this week has been preparing for the assessment of the first big practical module , the research module – Negotiated Study 1 which happens next week. I have managed to prepare my space ahead of the game so I’m in the luxurious position of having 2 days this week where I can make work for my own sake, without a deadline to meet.
Images attached – they don’t show the light boxes very well so I’ll take some close-ups tomorrow.
Here’s a link to my gimme shelter Blurb book. I couldn’t get Blurb’s embed codes for book preview to work here. Anyone know how to do it?
