The last two weeks of this semester we’ve had summative tutorials – individual presentations of our work so far this semester to tutors and peers. It seems that most of us have been through a major questioning of our practice – why we do what we do and why we should do what we do. It is difficult for us as artists to justify making work in today’s world, but a strong belief in the resonance of our work, and the importance of what we do should encourage us to continue.
Having such a long period of time to research and develop work this semester seems to have really focused our practices and caused us to pin down exactly what we’re interested in. There are themes recurring within our work as a group, most notably a respect and value for the natural world, as well as interpretations of landscapes and cityscapes and our experiences of them.
From now on we’re encouraged to go off the path of the known territory within our practices… we’ll see what follows.
