Today we were ceremoniously booted out from our studio on campus. 2nd Year Fine Art students use the space to have their assessment/end of year show. We went willingly though, as this feels like the beginning of the end. Here starts the countdown in earnest to the show.
Days to go – 28
Trying to tie up loose ends and complete work that we started seems to fill our days at the moment. We are getting our 'Week Apart' project professionally photographed and ironing curly screen prints so they sit flat so they're perfect when we have to put them in storage before the big day. The screen prints themselves deliberately give a sly nod to Barbara Kruger and her iconic text images in the 70/80's. We are also playing on the familiar scene at Frieze Art Fair, the 2007 Venice Biennale two years ago, and countless art exhibitions across the globe; posters stacked up on top of each other in an impressive looking pile, left, for the public to take. Generally we have no idea who the artist is when we take them, they're not even of a nice image, infact, when it gets home (probably a bit batter from the train ride home) it doesn't even go up on the wall. But we take them all the same, and if we don't get one, we eye up jealously the art-goers with huge rolls of paper in their bag.
Ours are a5 size though. A little insubstantial, and a little pathetic and, naturally, a little sarcastic.
