imageoftheworkcouldbecomethework

it was interesting to work with level 3 textile students at nuca yesterday – delivered a presentation with breakout sessions about pricing their work for the retail space we are creating this year as part of the final show alongside the idea of working freelance – the general feedback was that the course and nuca deliver the tools to enable students to develop a practice, make connections and ultimately a living which felt good http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/the-beginning-pricing
just written a powerpoint presentation for the briefing session on monday with level 2 - its the start of thinking about assessments and feels like real beginning of the end and the start of summer http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/year-2-assessment-briefing
folding again today in the garden has led to a number of sculptural bookworks that will feed into the work for the Kilkenny Arts Festival – started to think about the idea that the image of the work could become the work.
looking forward to the high tide festival this weekend - http://www.hightide.org.uk/ off to see nicked tonight - a new musical about the coalition.

sculpturalhaiku

this week i’ve been reading Greard Smyth; The Fullness of Time; New and Selected Poems for the Kilkenny Arts Festival and developing an approach to making work - i’ve been really enjoying them and have decided to concentrate on his new work – not wanting to illustrate the words i’ve looking at a way of creating a body of work that in some way captures the individual poems and would work as a set – starting off as quick sketches the pieces are becoming a sort of sculptural haiku - dense and loaded with meaning

tomorrow i'm giving a presentation on powerpoint using powerpoint for year 1 students on the textile course at nuca - this morning i'm draw to the fact that Nelson Mandela did not use powerpoint to inspire a nation but they have to give to a presentation about their work next week and powerpoint will service the occasion!
meanwhile the book show at studio 75 – prosperos books has been and gone – check here to see images - http://blog.situ.org.uk/2011/04/29/prosperos-library-preview/

rethinkingthinking

a full day yesterday – the teaching at Camberwell saw me running two seminars that had presentations at their core – we started to consider the catalogue for the final show and what its role might be for this year’s student cohort http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/catalogue-what-2011-6859005 its interesting to look at all the catalogues since the beginning of the course - it really is an interesting archive - and to remember the conversations that have taken place over time – the introduction of the virtual and how the group dynamics inform the intention around the catalogue as well as the final design. in the afternoon there was also a conversation around research and its relationship to the final essay http://www.slideshare.net/l.bicknell/writing-context-2011-6858951 supported by this year’s part-time students who have already gone through the process it was a very full presentation with lots to consider – but the possibilities are endless.
before getting the train home (late!) and going for a drink in the city with a friend i managed to see the second in the must see shows in London at the moment the Gabriel Orozco exhibition is magnificent http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/exhibitions/gabrielorozco/default.shtm there are the signature pieces – which are fun but the ‘folded ink blot pieces’ and the circular drawings really captured me – the catalogue is so full of ideas and work which makes you rethink the act of looking.