Our next meeting on the 10th Dec

Hi everyone,
nice to read your message Lucy, and the private view went very well thanks. This is the last weekend of the exhibition so hopefully there'll be a nice flow of viewers coming through the doors. My latest work actually featured my drawings but in an installation which featured different ways of displaying them, which was interesting to consider. Do we look at or value work differently if our gaze is directed downwards, or upwards? Or if it is not framed in a traditional way.

I found the feedback from the peer critique useful and interesting, as it throws up the usual
issues around presenting work and making what you create, which generally has numerous
layers involved of ideas and processes, something that others can relate to. Also keeping the original focus and not getting too sidetracked and therefore confused and confusing.

The CV feedback and discussion was definitely fruitfull, as its a struggle to know what to leave in and what to exclude as well as format as we're all aware. I needed to pay attention to the order of different sections, ie why put community art projects before visual art practice, why bother with age, ensure that what kind of artist you are is defined at the beginning in the profile, keep it concise, and format correctly from a graphics point of view.

This has encouraged me to amend and reconsider what needs to be there.

I'm looking forward to Thursday which looks like a good way of us gathering our thoughts and
projecting ourselves forwards, whatever point we're at as individuals.

Last thoughts:
1.I also like the idea of an online gallery for the group, and having an exhibtion trip, we could talk about this on Thursday and consider what we might choose to see.
2.Hope we can get Susan back at the end of the project.
3.Should we have a mince pie moment on Thursday?????

xxxIrene

next week

Dear All
Hope you are all well and good to see those of you who made our session on 12th November with Susan Diab. Looking forward to our 3rd session next week….. any ideas how we want this to work? There were some suggestions: half hour checks in at the start about a current problem/idea/piece of work with another 1 or 2 group peer members? I really liked the suggestion that one of our days could be visiting an exhibition somewhere… I also like the idea that this blog could be acting as a virtual gallery/exhibition site… it maybe we could pair up and develop a more in depth dialogue on thee blog. I think the last two hours where Irene and Glenys presented work (thank you), was great and valuable.
The feedback/suggestions on CV were useful. Thank you for all your comments.
The comments in relation to my CV for anyone who would like to know what was discussed were that:
Bold/Capitals are harder to read;
Needed to edit the highlights of the sections as too much detail/info was distracting and not doing any justice to achievements;
To make underlining/capitals bold consistent;
To have a short sentence/paragraph about practice at top of CV in case artist Statement separated to act as a reminder.
Does the education go more to the end of the CV?

Also if Jonathan Parsons cannot make our last session maybe we could invite Susan Diab back, maybe even along with Jonathan Parsons

Lucy

PS/ Irene, hope you private view/studio opening went well.

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I have decided not to come to the cv, statements workshop. I am more interested in 'having a conversation' with other artists at a certain stage in their work about how we 'shape our vision', different approaches to developing and presenting ideas. This would make me think, push me to try other ways and get those juices going in my head.

The other idea I was keen on, was using the 'development' theme as a central route for making work for a show. I wondered whether others would be keen to work towards finding a venue,putting a show together. Making work and showing it is after all is what being an artist means. The resources ARC has to offer could be put towards supporting 'Development' a show on how artists move, shape and shift. One way might be for everyone to make work in a medium they have never used before.
best Roz

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