I have lost my job share person in work – when I say lost, I know where she is, she is sat in her new flat sorting through boxes. She didn’t get kept on when her temporary contract ran out, I shall miss her a) as she is lovely and b) as I will struggle doing a full time job in 3 days – she was fantastic at her/our job.
Hence I will be busy busy with work as well as my MA in future weeks.
I got to Preston last Thursday only to find that the morning session had been cancelled, a misunderstanding as everyone on the studio practice section knew and so stayed home but we Site + Archive people turned up wondering where everyone was.
Instead we made good use of our time and visited the Harris Museum & Art Gallery, there is an exhibition on at the moment called ‘Quiet Revolution’ a Hayward Touring Curatorial Open curated by Chris Fite-Wassilak. I wandered around these seemingly very simplistic artworks made from household objects wondering what to make of them. At first unsure as my own work is often so complex but after a while I started to appreciate their simplicity.
In one of the rooms there was an invitation to make a work of our own which I undertook at first with some frivolity but then my artistic head took over and I worked at choosing the right pieces of household paraphernalia to work for me. I’ll add a photo of my final piece, which I actually liked at the end. I assembled it concentrating on tension and gravity not realising that that was in fact the theme of the rest of the show, when I was told this afterwards I realised that sub consciously I must have noted the tension in the other works so maybe I am beginning to master an understanding of contemporary sculpture after all.
The works we produced were photographed and entered into a competition, the prize winner gets to meet with the curator!
if anyone is up in Preston, stop by the Harris, enjoy the exhibition and have a go yourself. Much Fun.
