totally traumatised by watching 1917 - it truly is an
extraordinary film - in part due to the glorious cinematography you are with
them the whole way watching and feeling each and every tragic decision they
have to make - a must see film. 2 Popes was a little dry but solid acting from Hopkins
and Price elevated it. I've been invited to speak at Materials Research
Exchange 2020 - the line-up and content for the two days is
fairly awesome, luckily my job is to talk about how a maker makes sense of
working within a 'science' context - something that I do know about. http://www.materialsresearchexchange.co.uk/speakers/
a day at Camberwell discussing how the
final final show can in some way connect to the history of the course, the
students are planning something with the Camberwell Book Art collection,
working with Rosie Sherwood of Turn The
Page. Making connections between their own individual practice and items
from both The Camberwell and Chelsea Collection with a view to demonstrating
the breadth of opportunity and possibility afforded by the format and concept
of the book. the ending of the Book Art course has brought a degree of
reflection enabling me to think about what we have been doing on the course alongside
the value of the book as a creative tool. the text for the last catalogue is swirling
around my mind - The almost invisible reflective element of teaching enables reinvention,
a constant rethinking, the experience of which inevitably feeds back into
teaching. The process of creating presentations for seminars is a gathering of current
transitory information and weaving it with established historical knowledge to
form arguments, new 'truths'. When delivering presentations one cannot
anticipate the students input and the subsequent discussion due to their wide
ranging subject and cultural reference points. In that moment new hypothesis
are born and new thinking established. This is what we did. This is the legacy
of the course and the people who came, because it was their time to explore the
book. This is the legacy that we created which they took with them...... meanwhile
- popped into The British Library to see the new display of Artists Books
within the treasures exhibition - really good to see books with Camberwell
connections in the case.
