Northumbria University

And so….I am in the library during the christmas holidays taking advantage of the free printers and the quiet. I am a geek.

So it’s deadline day. Things have been running quite smoothly so far (although I don’t think having to move house this week has helped with my already high stress levels) and we have 3 hours left. I have my work up, although the lighting isn’t how I would have liked it, and luckily, through pulling all- nighters in the library, I have my written work completed too.

Unfortunately, three of us are exhibiting in one small room, and we’re currently fighting for every bit of space. I’m taking a bit of a risk with my statement, choosing only to show a quote and a link to this blog rather than a descriptive text as I have shown in the past. This is what I’m going for:

“It is often said that the statements of artists are not to be read in the same way as those of philosophers. The published writings and the statements of artists are often found to be elliptical, contradictory, evasive and rhetorical….A mixture of fantasy and conjecture, anecdote and metaphor are the likely companions of a working process which is as much concerned with concrete things as it is with words. The work itself-seeming all too often in danger of disappearing under a superfluity of words- is where artist and audience meet. This is where discussion begins.”

Adrian Searle (1993) Talking Art 1, ICA: London

www.a-n.co.uk/p/564347/

I hung all my work today, and with a week left before assessment. Bizarrely, this is always my most relaxed time…while everyone around me is stressed (they must hate me!) I have time to get all those annoying bits and pieces done (don’t we all hate those!)

Yesterday I had my most productive day at uni so far this semester…my tutorial went well, and we covered the points I had been struggling with, [how much to display and which lighting would be suitable] Tereza is lovely, and as she graduated from our course she had some great advice on getting through this final year. It was also reassuring to hear that at this stage she had no idea what she was going to present in the degree show.

I managed to hang everything I had done so far on this new piece and had a “breakthrough” with acetate… who would have thought! I can’t wait to experiment more tomorrow…