Monday Today we were to deliver the group research of the chosen art review. We had collectively chosen the online review of Mitra Saboury’s Pulling Walls exhibition from This Is Tomorrow website. Installation view, Grand Union 201 Mitra Saboury – Cavities 2015 (1min video) I chose to review the ‘writing structure’ of the review. The notes I made for the presentation focused on a paragraph-by-paragraph synopsis. I highlighted that the review has a strong sense of imagination and feeling, using words such as ‘touch’, ‘taste’, ‘squelching’ and ‘hammering. This in itself indirectly tells you that this exhibition needs to be experienced to be appreciated. On a whole, the review is brief in content and history, lacks art history references. I closed my part of the presentation by dissecting the closing sentence, which was: “The overall effect of this is an immersive performance where the artist, viewer, architecture and city interact with one another to create fluid boundaries between the inside and out, organic and industrial.” The closing sentence isn’t particularly punchy or witty. It clearly concludes that the exhibition is to be seen to appreciate and does a good job of ‘rounding off’ or ‘tying up’ the review on a whole. For the presentation itself, we had 7 of our group turn up/contribute. One absentee was excluded from participation as their Erasmus Programme is coming to an end, the other two absentees were never heard from throughout. --- Late 2016, I came across an online submission for artwork to be published in an annual catalogue. The advertisement was from an artist collective I following on Instagram called CollageCollectiveCo. It may well have been the last day of term in 2016 that submitted a piece (digitally). I never heard anything back from them, other than an automated email thanking me for entering. I had intended to purchase the annual regardless, so this evening I decided to go online and order it…to find that my collage had been used. I was 1 of 100 artists chosen for the annual (I am resisting the urge to include tens of exclamation marks after each of the last two sentences). As you can see, they have over 36,000 followers, so I’m incredibly honoured to be 1 of 100 selected for the annual. I proceeded to order a copy and will anxiously wait the estimated 14 days for delivery. Tuesday My plan for the week is to come in as early as realistically possible (9:30am-ish) in order to arrange all the collages, books and cuttings I’ve amassed since September. My studio space needs to be tidied in preparation for the assessment on the 23rd. I managed to procrastinate the entirely morning and early afternoon, avoiding any organising, instead I managed to create three collages. I continued with the previously established themes so that I could build further pieces to the series’. The individual tutorial with Lois was almost a carbon copy of last week’s tutorial (which was scheduled to be group, but ended up being individual as there was only me and Emily in attendance). We mainly discussed the exciting MK Gallery – Live Projects module, and I used the time to confirm the procedures for presenting work, namely, how I present an online journal - whether I needed to print it out, email it or share a link (the latter was the correct option). After the tutorial, I spent the hours leading in to the evening experimenting with a juxtaposition between old photographs. Sourced from a history book and a floral book, I spliced them together to try and create as much of a contrast as possible. Wednesday The focus of today was to organise my space. I purchased a lever-arched folder and 200 extra strong plastic pouches so that I could group together all the lose cuttings I’m yet to use. I could also group together all finished pieces that would fit in the pouches for presentation / assessment. At 4pm, Fran met with everyone who expressed an interest in exhibiting their work in the gallery space on the ground floor. There were approx. 25 students trying to compromise with one another for space, claiming the area they desired with Post-it notes around the room. I’m not sure I’ll have a legitimate claim for a bigger space in the end, and that I may be able to compromise with people around me in my studio space in order to get my final pieces on the wall. Thursday Again starting early, I used the morning and early afternoon organising the mountain of collage material. After a discussion with Ishmail (who shares the space opposite to mine), it appears that I may not need space in the exhibition space for presentation. By 1430 (when I had to leave for work), I was around 80% complete. Friday The morning again consisted of organising my space and collage materials. By early afternoon this was complete. In the afternoon I received a call from the framers informing me that my order was ready for collection. To save rushing over the weekend (as they're closed on Mondays), I opted to leave and collect the frames. As you can see on the breakdown below, the cost for frames was £134.40. The column with £177.60 as a total was an option for my artwork to be place inside for me. I opted for the former as I had the weekend to insert the collages. Foamex was £18.00 + VAT so a grand total of £156.00. I had chosen a white frame and mount rather than an ivory/cream to avoid any clash with the subtlety of the b&w images.
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