First interview done today for the MAFA course with the course leader. As he knows my work, we talked more about what to expect on Monday’s interview. I’m meeting again one of my teachers to do another mock up interview tomorrow. I have also talked to a friend which is currently doing her MA at Chelsea, her advice has been truly helpful too. Charlie will be in the panel on Monday with two more teaching stuff. I will practise the interview during the weekend and get some proposals together so they can see what kind of job I would like to develop during the course. I’m not sure what kind of proposals to do, this is quite new to me and with the degree piece on the way I can’t think of other projects that I would like to do next, I might do but I’m worried that they might not be good enough for them. We are five people shortlisted, with me being the only current student at uni shortlisted. I feel like a have a good chance and I’m building my confidence to go for this. If I win this studentship, they will pay the course fees and they will give me a stipend of £9.600. Mind blowing! Too good to be true??? To win this will be amazing and I will throw a big party to celebrate, well deserved it, it has been a very busy year!
Well, going back now to my studio, it has been a good week. My helpers from 1st and 2 year are amazing and they are very committed to help me with the degree show work.
I did a rough drawing last night that how I would like the installation to be and is helping us to keep focus on what we are doing. We have finished the monster’s tail today and I will try to stuff it in the morning with green tissue paper. This piece is the most fun work that I have ever done and I want to think it is going to look amazing. Colourful, fun but also a bit dark, just how I like it. I’m doing a perplex box also, inside there will be a kind of a cocodrile/monster thing inside made out of cardboard and modroc, the tail will come out of the box and it will curl around the asymmetrical shapes. I will be building a low plinth and all the objects hopefully they will pile on top of each other. The sewing continues/more sewing/sewing more.
Good progress as well regarding the video. My good friend Andrezj who graduated from moving image at Brighton too it is going to help me with the shooting and the editing of the video. I have also two female performing students interested to help out on this, possibly a male student too. I’m planning to do the filming between the 29th and the 30th April, and hopefully but the end of the week it can be all edited and done. I will be building at home a Punch and Judy kind of puppet stage with mdf where the tv screen will be rest and be seen.
I have a dilemma about the drawings, to frame or not to frame? I have found a trade framing factory in West Sussex that they could do cheaper but it will still a good couple of 100 pounds, maybe less but not much, I think. Some people are telling me that they do not need framing and that framing and some others think they will look better framed. I don’t fancy spending all that money which I haven’t got at the moment and if I frame I will have to have a cut off day to send the drawings away which means that I happen to make more drawings which I like I won’t be able to frame on time or pay more to be framed in Brighton.
Decisions, decisions…
Tomorrow more…
I hate when you have written loads and you were happy about it and for some reason it didn’t save. : (
Quickly going to resume my day so I don’t get behind on this again.
It has been a big day. I have had news from admissions today. I have been shortlisted for the studentship award for the MA Fine Art course. The interview will be on the 22nd April. I’m feeling nervous, this is a massive opportunity for my pratice and I really want to be prepared for the interview.
Today I have been feeling a bit overwhelmed by all the stuff I have to do for degree show, plus now preparing for the interview and the meeting about censorship two days later.
The sewing continues… it has been a slow day, but I haven’t stopped, I guess, slowly but surely. Same shape, same colours in different order, same detail, I wish I had achieved a bit more of a round shape, this is more like a cushion! I’m thinking to mabye do a over the head height sculpture where all these fabrics, acrylic plastics sculptures are attached to each other. Imagine a big pile of assymetrical shapes made in different materials that looks caotic and almost like falling down but at the same time content and secure? This is my latest thought about how I want the sculpture to look, will i get it?? you and I will have to wait and see.
I’ve completed another drawing today, really like this one. It reminds me of the decorated glass jars that I used to do when I was a child. Inside the jar you pour salt that has been rubbed in coloured chalk. Slowly making patterns of colours, like coloured rolling hills. I get a good feeling from this drawing. The more I think about it, the more I want to frame the drawings for the show. Although I haven’t got much money I think it will be a good investment. Or at least I hope so. Sigh.
Hasta mañana
It feels like I have made a start today. Also the space that I will be exhibiting in degree show it will become available tomorrow. I bought quite a lot of fabrics today and started some sewing. I will have two helpers from 1st and 2nd year so hopefully I will be able to do all I have in mind.
At the end I have decided to stick to sewing to do the sculptures. I’m comfortable with this medium, I don’t wan to risk it. I prefer not to use wet materials for now. I’m going to be using cardboard to make asymmetrical shapes, then sewing fabric using the same patterns to fit into the shapes. I want to create an installation of objects with different sizes, colours and textures. I’m aiming to create larger shapes than usual, perhaps a pile of objects, over head height, with the feeling that is almost all going to fall down. Quite chaotic but in harmony too. Visually attractive, like a festival of pattern, colour. I will also use acrylic plastic to do some of the shapes. I might also print images onto the acrylics, not sure what images yet.
I have also finished the armature this week too. I’m not entirely sure about what is the expression of this man now. I’m working along trying to come out with ideas for this film. The video in my previous post is inspiring. I’m going to try to find two students from performing arts and see if they could help me doing the video. I would like to shoot at home, see what happens. I would like to build a mdf kind of Punch and Judy puppet theatre stage for the film. The film screen will fit in the space of the theatre.
Tomorrow I will find out if I have been shortlisted to be interviewed for the studentship award to do the MA Fine Art course, finger crossed! If I am, I will be interviewed on the 22nd April. The 24th, same month, I will be in a meeting with 3 members of the staff, and a postgraduate student. Between all of us, we will be trying to come out with some new guidelines to protect students when exhibiting works that contains explicit (to some) images or content.
Just watched this video and is so powerful. I’m going to spend studying this and making notes for the story.
More drawings done in graph paper, using my new colours palette.
