Day 2 as an official blogger! I had meant to start this during the build up to the course starting but I went on a jaunt around Britain for 2 weeks instead, the photos and drawings from which, I plan to base much of my work on, more on that later.
So the course started last week (Monday 14th Sept). As predicted I was late and couldn’t find the campus and so embarked on a jog around Kingston and finally found my new peer group and tutors in the canteen, to top things off I then proceeded to get ink from a leaky pen all over my face…great start!
We all introduced ourselves and had a chat about the course, the tutors made it very clear that the Fine Art was the main focus and the PG Cert a sideline so to speak and shouldn’t interfere with the development of our practice. We then had a tour of the impressive workshops and studios and met the technicians. The sheer amount of opportunities these facilities open up is mind blowing, I got really over excited and decided to learn everything and anything, first on the list- welding! (if nothing else at least I could make a bit of money as a flashdance impersonator!)
Despite some confusion over admin issues (it has all been very disorganised and last minute leading myself and other course mates to worry about fitting it in around our jobs) the first day went really well, i was pleased with the size of the group and it was reassuring to meet down to earth people with similar backgrounds to myself ie; haven’t done much art since graduating and only just figured out what they want to do. So I left feeling very positive and happier than I have been for a long time.
We had a day and a half workshop to kick off the PG cert. Strange to be in a classroom environment again! There were about 30 people in the workshops, most of whom were already teaching and had come from the nhs or different parts of the university. Despite occasionally feeling a bit out of my depth the workshop worked really well and although some excercises were geared towards the non-students with teaching experience, it didn’t interfere too much and I felt that I had picked up a lot.
Other recent developments include; being forced to join facebook, starting a new job as part time receptionist at the British Heart Foundation, which is going well and involves wearing a Britney headset, which is fun! I did attempt to go in to uni yesterday afternoon as the ‘facebook group’ had made loose arrangements to meet up and have a go in the print workshop, however no one else turned up so I wandered around aimlessly for a while before having a play around with some of the aformentioned ‘Britain Jaunt’ photos on photoshop, but wasn’t sure want I was doing or what I really wanted to do.
