Week 8
I’m feeling the strain of not having a laptop in my studio, as that was something that I’d been used to during my residency. It was useful to blog in the studio and much easier to act on things. My PC is homebound, so I’ve been jealously sneering at my Macbook owning course buddies these past few weeks. In someways I know that not having a computer in the studio is also of benefit to me, for instance, no Youtube or Facebook to distract me, time will tell as to whether or not I jump on the macbook bandwagon. I’m still holding back. My blogging would be more spontaneous and generally better than writing it from home.
This week I’ve just been playing with collage, the photocopier and scenes from Star Wars. I’ve also continued playing about large cement drawings, thinking about imposing structures and once again things falling apart.
There was a talk on Wednesday by David Thomas who has a residency in the Centre for Drawing at Wimbledon. There were loads of BA, MA and Phd students crammed into a tiny seminar room. Very cosy. It was a good talk though. He talked about the ‘art object’ being experiences, air, sensations and energy. The way that objects sit within the world, and the effect that this has on the world that surrounds the object. Colour in the work effecting the colour of the surrounding space. He also showed some of his free standing work, which is something I am considering, and talked about celebrating connections with other artists rather than feeling annoyed because our work may be similar to someone else’s.
Other than that, we got the first professional practice talk in a series, and the Postgraduate Forums began, although due to snow things were changed around a bit, but they were good to listen to as I have my forum in January.
