I have had a week to relax and I should be coming back refreshed and ready to go but I find myself just a little too relaxed and struggling to get back into it.
The steps I have taken this week have been more careful and less experimental. I have been looking at more feminism books, or more accurately, post feminism books and researching more ideas for paintings. I am aware that the work for the degree show is turning into an installation and this is an area what I have not really touched on much before, being what I thought was a painting practice, but this is the time to be brave and ambitious so I am going to go for it. I recognize my own inexperience so one of my next areas of research will be to investigate installations so that I have a better understanding of the layers of this and allow what I present to be the best of what I have been experimenting with.
On a negative note, I was rejected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries. A little disappointed but what can you do.
I had a tutorial on tuesday which confirmed that I am on the right track and all of the hard work before easter has taken me to a strong position that I need to build on to allow selection of the best works for the show. The key phrase from the tutorial was follow your instincts.
So on wednesday I had the test exhibition space to see how all the works, compacted in my studio space would look on a much larger studio wall. Of course, it always changes and improves your perspective when they are moved into an exhibition context and are given space to breath. I found that they more than hold the space, and by incorporating objects; paint brushes and the like into the work, it adds something. As there was more space, I thought to try and test some brushes totally on their own. This appeared to work. Anarchy can be symbolized by the spray paint cans. So I know it works now, I do need to consider further how they are read in terms of each work talking to the next and how the objects interplay with it all.
I have dipping more items in the pink paint. I have tried some apples which work well, a reference to adam and eve and I need to think about a bite out of one, perhaps capturing this was varnish. So its an area for development.
Also, building up more brushes and paint palettes, well used as a symbol of my art education. They are really dripping with paint, that screams bodily fluid, a female ejaculation in paint.
