Studio spaces have now been allocated for the first six week period, with detailed guidelines and expectations for how they and the shared workspaces are to be used. It is a different way and there may well be some problems. We final year students need to get on with working now and not let it distract us. The reduction in teaching hours for our staff has resulted in a re-plan of the timetable and a re-adjustment to how teaching hours are used. Moving furniture and cleaning up the studio (along with constructing it!) etc are the responsibility of the artist and part of studio life. It is our studio. Use it or loose it.
The first deadline of the year approaches, for 10 minute power point presentation for the Context and Presentation module. This is a practice run for the new contextulisation section of the viva we give at our final. I am finding that this process is far from limiting. It is helping me to identify the heart of my practice. I don’t want to make work ‘like’ anyone but I’m not making in a vacuum either. It’s a multi-lingual visual world out there, witness Frieze, and I suppose I want to know my language well and to communicate it clearly.
I have started two groups of work. In my studio space at Angelika, I am working with the starting point of a small pencil drawing continuing the Massena series. At uni I am pursuing a series using the concertina sketchbook drawing/painting activity I have been doing throughout the course.
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Massena- Standing
Concertina – Moving
