back
from an absolutely excellent 4 days in Barnsley working with the Open College
of the Arts. It was the final year MA Fine Art Degree Show at the Civic,
http://www.barnsleycivic.co.uk/ a
culmination of all their work and a physical manifestation of the
online experience. The title of the whole event was called we are
connected (WEARECONNECTED) which was so apt. One of the things I love about helping
to hang the final show and then assessing the unit is meeting these people
physically for the first time. It's quite a wild feeling in that one feels that
we know each other, often we have been in each other's bedrooms or at least
living spaces but at the same time how tall are they, how do they exist in 3D?
The private view was one of the nicest I have ever been to in all my years of
teaching, with supportive speeches, great comments, conversations and presents
and some great work by the artists; Rob Brisco, Tanya Ahmed, Monika
Brueckner, Alison South, Ines Gonzalez Cordero, Maire Keogh, Mwamba Mulangala,
Emma Delpech, Mathew Aldred and Susan Miller....how good is that. The MA Fine
Art course leader is Caroline Wright http://www.carolinewright.com/
and whole thing is run so professionally. I managed to get out and about on my
folding bike for a couple of hours as it was such good weather.....not bad.
