This week has been the start of the dismantle for the degree show. It’s so strange to think that we’ll be putting our work up in just a few days and then that’s it, no more uni, no more art school, no more assessment just making art for own purposes.
There’s no photos for this part because quite frankly everyone knows what a white wall looks like, and really that’s all that I’ve been doing, painting walls white. Along with sanding them and repainting them with more white paint. I don’t think any of us have ever been so precious over a piece of wall but we’ve all become very particular about how others are helping to paint them – the younger years all think we’ve gone mad I’m sure.
I’ve also been printing my multiple for sale at the degree show. I have created a small edition of 12 screen prints, ‘Sealed with a kiss’ which directly relate back to my degree show piece whilst being slightly more subtle and an affordable piece that people could display in their home. They originated from a small watercolour painting that I did and then have been screen printed using cmyk 4 colour process printing onto cream envelopes.
I still have to do another print for the international print portfolio so I think I will be doing another variation on this theme. The use of abstracted body parts has worked very well and have been received by others very well. The theme this year is 12″ taken from the idea of the old records so I’m not entirely sure how I’ll merge the 2 ideas but I’m sure I can come up with something. For now though it’s back to painting the floor and measuring up the walls ready to hang the show.
