Today has been so busy.
Drove all the way back from Devon, got in at 7pm only to clean, unpack and add more onto my Eisteddfod portfolio.
and then suddenly, ive become stuck.
Do i put in more, or have i already put too much in? Should i give the basics as to not waste their time? Or should i give them every tiny detail so they can fully see what this project could truly be?!
Even though ive technically "finished" my degree, i can't help but feel that there is no way anyone can be completely prepared…..or maybe there is, and ive just missed out on the secret lectures. Every application is so unique and individual, it needs to be remade each time… or maybe it doesn't. But id prefer to – i think, i like to build up my portfolio each time – it reminds me what is there AND lets me aim it towards what i am proposing, only show what's relevant.
I think i might need to sit a degree in business training….
But as a wonderful distraction to portfolio building, i have been going through images and have chosen two installation views and two details photos of my exhibition work. Hope you all enjoy.
Been a busy week, and I thought invigilating the exhibition would mean I could get work done. The place was a lot busier than I had originally thought it would be, and people were talking and had a real buzz about them. Maybe I was a bit too wound up from all the hard work to really appreciate what we actually managed to put together – and such a small group of us.
(Oh, how the tides have changed ey)
So I still haven’t sent my portfolio off yet, in fact – I haven’t had the chance to get all my images printed off high quality…. shhhh! But I’ve got a solid two day work plan to gather the key items I need to include. I’m thinking of putting the extra hours in and collecting some DVD footage of my installations.
Im feeling rather drained today, dropped my boyfriend off at Bristol airport today – as he worked with John Cale he got a ticket to the opening night and manage to get a job invigilating for the month of June in Italy… lucky git! After an intense first 8 months of our relationship – of spending nearly every waking second together…. having each others art crisis’s to manage on top of your own personal apocalypse (it didn’t help that our installation rooms in the exhibition were connected) we managed to get through it and now we have a solid month apart…. and im going to miss him. He’s really kept my enthusiasm and my hopes high – proved to me how much an artist community really thrives off of relationships of all types. I want to start getting my face out there, need to get the artist in me well fed and fully networked!
I want to upload some images showing the outcomes of my "the space between us" project, there’s more to be done, and I’m really excited about pushing these further… but for the exhibition they were a good example of where my work had developed too. I am starting to think, that even if I didn’t get the funding from the young artist award, I might try and save and go on the glass forming course anyway. I have to make sure this proposal works, time to eat loads of tuna and get my thinking cap on.
But not tonight, too sleepy…
….dont let the bed bugs bite
