Participation

Again a bit out of date with my life. Rewind, fast forward. A week after my interview at the RCA I went to see the current MA Printmaking student show at Café Gallery Projects – that was a year ago. I left in awe and apprehension. Suddenly here I am participating.
There was a vague concensus that we should have some kind of unifying theme but we knew that couldn’t be through the work shown as we were all individual practises. So we thought we would choose a text we could respond to through a group publication.
Rob being our show rep came up with a suggestion to use Air Guitar, an essay by Dave Hickey.

My initial reaction was I didn’t like Hickey’s style and it took a few readings for me to appreciate some of his points.
From this text we managed to wrestle the title YESTERDAY’S WRONG THINKING.

The title became autonomous. It spoke of tomorrow’s world.

We made a neat little risograph publication in teal and fleuro pink.

Day one it felt impossible that we could all fit in the space.

But by day 3 we had a plan.

I was showing the next two from the Paradise on Earth series

Paradise Forum B3

The etching that had taken so long to get a decent copy mounted on steel and hung in the room with the videos for a low level light

and the mixed media piece on Perspex with organza which had also been a technical challenge hung high on the wall to force perspective

Paradise Walk SW3

And here we are for the crits

Only had about 3 minutes to discuss Paradise Walk SW3 but Paradise Forum B3 received a good crit and as Rob kindly pointed out the basis of the discussion was the content of the work and not the medium or technique.

That’s a step forward for me as so often I get asked how rather than what or why when it comes to my work.

Also had the privelige to participate in RCA Secret 2014.

All current students plus celebrated alumni make 3 postcards that can be viewed online.