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The show must go on
Andrew Bryant delves into the student blogs on Degrees unedited and provides insights and analysis into what they reveal.
The response to Degrees unedited – www.a-n.co.uk/degrees_unedited – has been phenomenal this year. With thirty bloggers making around 150 posts each month, it is clear that many final year art students are finding something of use to them in keeping a blog. So what are the benefits of blogging and what can the blogs this year tell us about student life and art schools today, particularly at a time when art education, and higher education in the UK in general, is perceived by many to be in crisis. Clare McFarlane, who is studying fine art at Hereford College of Arts, sums up the positive effects of blogging, especially when you are approaching such a momentous threshold as your degree show: “I have found... using the space to be incredibly cathartic and an excellent way to clarify ideas... I will most certainly be carrying on post degree. Thank you a-n.” This use of the blog as an aid to metabolising ideas is common to all and seems to be the primary use of the space. Secondary to this is the notion of documenting, not only the progress of the work, but of the degree show itself. Sonya Chenery, a fine art student at the University of Hertfordshire, hopes...
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