As my time at Wysing is nearing a close I have one last day to tell you about before the exhibition. The curating day.
Two weeks before our exhibition all the young artists, myself included, went down to wysing to have one and a half days all about curating to inspire us for our own exhibition. We started off with the curator at wysing coming into us to talk to us about curating and give us a chance to ask any questions we may have. This was truly very interesting as curating isn't something that had ever crossed my mind as a career.
After this we split into groups and were shown roughly two dozen items on a table, these ranged from art work to hang on the wall, to little toy animal covered in gold leaf. Basically our aim over the next day and a half was to choose an exhibition space in wysing's grounds and plan and put up our own exhibition. This would inspire us to create our own exhibition in a couple of weeks time.
The first day was spent planning the layout and visualising where everything would go. The second day we assembled our exhibition for the other young artists to view and comment on and for us all to take inspiration from each others way of displaying the same items in different ways.
It was truly inspirational to see the way that the same items could look so different and how a small item in a large space can be more powerful then a space crammed full of items.
So now I bid you farewell, a mere week to the exhibition now, my excitement levels are rising by the minute.
Au Revoir
Meggie
Monday, 26 March 2012
Interview Questions
Aswell as the arts challenge, for which I am combining textiles, art and photography, there are many other parts to the gold arts award. One of which is to interview artists and find out how they got to their current position etc.
I decided to interview three artists, one textile artist, one photographer and one artist. I have yet to interview the textile artist and photographer but I have interviewed an artist. This artist is called Louise Stebbings, she is my art teacher at an art class I attend. She focuses mainly on linoprinting and drawing/painting. These are the questions and her answers.
How long have you had a career as an artist?
Twenty seven years.
When did you first realise your passion for lino printing and how did you discover it originally?
I first discovered lino printing at an art foundation course in Cambridge and my passion went from there.
How did you start off working straight out of college, and then what changed (if any) to make you self employed?
A past tutor told me of a job that I should apply for. I was taught for several years before becoming self employed. It was just circumstances at the time that made me decide to become self employed.
Was linoprinting something you always wanted to do, or was it found through another medium?
Linoprinting was a part of all printmaking which I had loved for a while.
Where do you take your inspiration from?
I take my inspiration mainly from life experiences.
What qualifications have you gained and have they been useful?
I have gained a BA honours in Fine Art; a Postgraduate qualification in printmaking and a Postgraduate certificate in ed. These are all useful for teaching.
Do you take part in any exhibitions?
I have exhibited extensively in the UK in solo and mixed exhibitions.
Do you attend any form of artists group and if so which and again what do you gain from attendance?
I have attended several in the past, most of which have been useful for contacts and feedback on work.
What have you learned from being in business that qualifications did not include?
I have learned vast amounts from being in business that none of my qualifications included.
For someone starting out in a career in arts what advice would you give?
You must be persistent and patient.
What future plans do you have for yourself and your work?
I wish to better my techniques and get my work out to a wider audience.
This completes the questionnaire for artist Louise. Just textile artist and photographer left now.
Meghan
I decided to interview three artists, one textile artist, one photographer and one artist. I have yet to interview the textile artist and photographer but I have interviewed an artist. This artist is called Louise Stebbings, she is my art teacher at an art class I attend. She focuses mainly on linoprinting and drawing/painting. These are the questions and her answers.
How long have you had a career as an artist?
Twenty seven years.
When did you first realise your passion for lino printing and how did you discover it originally?
I first discovered lino printing at an art foundation course in Cambridge and my passion went from there.
How did you start off working straight out of college, and then what changed (if any) to make you self employed?
A past tutor told me of a job that I should apply for. I was taught for several years before becoming self employed. It was just circumstances at the time that made me decide to become self employed.
Was linoprinting something you always wanted to do, or was it found through another medium?
Linoprinting was a part of all printmaking which I had loved for a while.
Where do you take your inspiration from?
I take my inspiration mainly from life experiences.
What qualifications have you gained and have they been useful?
I have gained a BA honours in Fine Art; a Postgraduate qualification in printmaking and a Postgraduate certificate in ed. These are all useful for teaching.
Do you take part in any exhibitions?
I have exhibited extensively in the UK in solo and mixed exhibitions.
Do you attend any form of artists group and if so which and again what do you gain from attendance?
I have attended several in the past, most of which have been useful for contacts and feedback on work.
What have you learned from being in business that qualifications did not include?
I have learned vast amounts from being in business that none of my qualifications included.
For someone starting out in a career in arts what advice would you give?
You must be persistent and patient.
What future plans do you have for yourself and your work?
I wish to better my techniques and get my work out to a wider audience.
This completes the questionnaire for artist Louise. Just textile artist and photographer left now.
Meghan
Sunday, 8 January 2012
Photography Art Piece
This post is all about my piece combining photography and art.
The plan for this piece was to take a photo of a stunning landscape and then draw and paint the photo and match the two together. Well, I took a photo at a beach which isn't a stunning landscape but it is in fact three beach huts. I loved the photo so much that I decided to make it my PA photo.
I then roughly sketched the photo before adding in some of the finer detail. It was then time to splash on the watercolours. I forgot to start with the background and instead started with the huts themselves, life lesson of the day. When I had finished painting my piece, the time had come to cut out of the painting, I had been trying to put it off for a while now but I couldn't any more. I cut a small square out of each hut and thank the lord, they matched up.
I haven't yet put the two properly together so when it is I will take a photo of it and post it when it is ready.
The plan for this piece was to take a photo of a stunning landscape and then draw and paint the photo and match the two together. Well, I took a photo at a beach which isn't a stunning landscape but it is in fact three beach huts. I loved the photo so much that I decided to make it my PA photo.
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| The photo I have decided to use for the PA piece |
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| My watercolour painting of the beach huts with the holes cut out. |
Thats all for now
Meghan
Saturday, 7 January 2012
Introduction
Hello all
Welcome to my new blog. My previous blog, www.meggiestextiledesign.blogspot.com ,was all about my silver arts award, this blog will be all about my gold arts award. For those of you who didn't read my last blog, I am doing my gold arts award through Wysing Arts Centre, an amazing arts centre near Cambridge. I am part of their young artists programme, a 5 month programme which ends in an exhibition of our work.
My areas of art interest are, textiles, which is what I completed my silver arts award in; photography, which is something I just love to do anywhere I am; and finally there is fine art, which I am quite new to.
Through out this blog I will be posting about the triumphs and the disasters, the highs and the lows and finally, about the lead up to my exhibition.
Meghan
Welcome to my new blog. My previous blog, www.meggiestextiledesign.blogspot.com ,was all about my silver arts award, this blog will be all about my gold arts award. For those of you who didn't read my last blog, I am doing my gold arts award through Wysing Arts Centre, an amazing arts centre near Cambridge. I am part of their young artists programme, a 5 month programme which ends in an exhibition of our work.
My areas of art interest are, textiles, which is what I completed my silver arts award in; photography, which is something I just love to do anywhere I am; and finally there is fine art, which I am quite new to.
Through out this blog I will be posting about the triumphs and the disasters, the highs and the lows and finally, about the lead up to my exhibition.
Meghan
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