Coleg Menai, Bangor

Building continues in the hut laboratory but the priority for the coming week is to give the huts a weightier context. I’ll be out and about with the video cameras building more makeshift shelters using limited materials.

Meanwhile the collection of materials for the ty unnos continues and I’ll be making a start this week on the catalogue essay for the dissertation exhibition as well as producing a first draft for the reflective statement for the current module.

A busy week was made all the more so by helping out in the Mostyn Gallery helping construct a video projection booth for Ground Level the touring Hayward exhibition. The week topped off by a great opening at the Mostyn – 4 new exhibitions: Chant Avedissian’s Cairo Stencils; Alex Katz as part of the Artists’ Rooms series; Ground Level; and Eva Koch’s NoMad as part of the Mostyn’s Love Video series. Eva gave a really engaging talk on Saturday talking really openly about her practice and the secret behind those beautiful long slow pans.

Here’s the address of my Culture Colony profile:

http://www.culturecolony.com/profile/491

The show was a good focus for activity last week but resulted in a plateau of creativity; the key now is not to close things down but try and keep taking risks with the work between now and formative assessments.

One of the aspects of the ty unnos tradition that interests me is the idea of encroachment so the huts have started to appear in estate agencies.

Here’s a second post of work in progress by some of the final year guys put together for a corridor show at Coleg Menai.

Melanie Archer has asked me to include a credit for her friend Danny Rawlins who took the original images for her piece.

Here are 2 posts of photos of what the other guys on the course put in the corridor show of work in progress.

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