The Last Two Weeks = Crazy
I feel a little out of touch with myself, having not blogged properly since Christmas, which now seem ages ago. Getting back into college was good, I started back on the 4th of January feeling refreshed after a couple of week of well needed rest. The studios were quite quiet during the first week, and we had an essay/research question proposal deadline on the 6th. Writing this has helped me to feel more comfortable about my practice and my research, and also opened up lots more questions, but that’s the idea. I found myself writing about grids, which I feel keen to get away from as well as nostalgia, ruins, confinement and the urban enironment.
The second week back was one tiring/crazy/fun/stressful week. On Monday, four of us (Katie, Alex, Scott and myself) installed an exhibition in a shop in Tooting. We were given the space for 3 weeks and it is a community arts space. We though it would jut be a fun thing to do, but actually required quite a lot of work, especially as there ended up being 27 participating artists from our course and three weeks of invigilating to sort out among other things. It was nice to play around with a range of work in a space and pick out relationships between them. The private view on the Friday was very well attended, around 100 or so people jammed into the space.
The main panic of this week for me was my postgraduate forum talk, which also took place on the Friday. I had to prepare and give a talk about the research and ideas behind my work, but not actually about my work if that makes sense. Fortunately, I had just handed in my research question proposal so I was quite well set and had lots of materials. It was good to get feedback from the 35 or so people who turned up. The square of flourescent paint in one of my pieces proved to be a talking point at the end, in the way that it doesn’t quite fit, or throws off the viewers gaze. I mentioned that the colour was the same as security people would wear and about it being a comment on surveillance, it was then suggested that I should keep some things to myself.
The exhibition is on until the 29th of January, these are the details:
SALAD ALFRESCO a fresh mix of art by Wimbledon MA Students
Tuesday – Saturday 11am – 5pm
Sprout Community Arts Space, 74 Moyser Road, Tooting, London, SW16 6SQ
