I am a mature student in my final year of a two year MA in Fine Art at Falmouth. I would like to use the blog to reflect and enjoy the path the MA treads, to communicate with other bloggers, to share ideas, worries, explore the process from the inside out and outside in!
This is the final week before the MA assessments and the show opens to the public. I have finally found a soulution to my angst over the final show. I was finding it difficult to see how I could show the process I have been engaged in in the woods effectively and in the spirit in which it was made. I have ended up with what I see as a form of ‘poetic documentation’. Responding to the huge room I have been given to show in, as well as showing glimpses of the work in the wood. I don’t feel it is finished yet. The final month has been a challenge, but I am pleased with how the space has developed. Now interested to see how the show is recieved, especially by the people who know my pre-MA textile practice.
Only a few months to go before the MA show in a room at Lamorva Painting studio. My work is so concerned with the approach and process i am finding it difficult to be goal orientated and think about making final pieces. i am resisting the finality of this! I hung the 52 ink drawings in Andy’s studio, and was surprised how they looked collectively. I think that’s the key. I have been working over time so to suddenly make something new for the show is maybe not a good idea?….
I visited the Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition at the Burton Art Gallery in Bideford on friday. It was an interesting experience, which made me acknowlege the importance of drawing in my own practice. This prize shows the huge diversity in contemporary drawing practice. I particularly liked the large ink drawing of a fragmented woven piece of fabric by Chie Konishi. The work was on 150x200cm piece of tracing paper, and it spoke to me of the vulnerability and strength I’d like to embody in my own work.
In essay mode now. We’ve been told we need the 1st draft in by the 23rd March. I have only just started it! The essay helps make sense of the work in words, but its hard to do the art work and write about it I find. Today is working on a presentation for the lecture theatre and the essay of course.
My computer has died, so no pictures this post. How do you balance the theory/writing with the art? Mybe its worse on an MA course, i just don’t seem to be able to flit seamlessly from writing to making. I have started doodleing words in my sketchbook maybe it will become a bridge between the world of intellect and spirit?!
Artist explorer based in North Cornwall.
