This year seems to be filled with a steam of deadlines to be met. On the one hand, this is a way to successfully achieve a lot by sticking to these deadlines. On the other, the feeling of constantly working on something else rather than the main project at hand can be a little frustrating.
However, if these things can be linked (as they somehow seem to be) it makes everything fall into place a lot easier.
For example, today we had a visit from our external examiner. It was a brief chat to see where we are at, and to ask questions about the programme. Although it was another other thing to do, these things can be helpful. Talking about your work can be hard and this forces you to think about it in a critical way and be able to justify certain things, which is important.
Then, the next deadline was for an external project a number of our year took art in. A brief was set in conjunction with the Modern 2 gallery proposed a contemporary response to their current exhibition of works by SJ Peploe. The work was to be something in “book” format (or using bookbinding/bookmaking techniques/ideas).
I love the contrast of working on something so small, delicate and precise in comparison to my other work, paintings and installations, which seem quite different in their working but the approach so similar.
Working from the brief and a number of visits to the exhibition, I came up with a response which took into account the exhibition space as a whole and how the artist´s works become part of it. Using shape and colour to form a three-part response, these elements were brought together in an almost architectural way.
