crit response

ok so should have written this up last week but was quite busy helping take down the RCA/ ECA show in the sculpture court.

The crit of Sander and myselfs show went really well, alot of good feedback and questions raised. The idea behind my work is of appropriation and assimilation, re-using old image and text to maybe shed light on the here and now. Juxtaposing images and text out of context to create a confusing and intriguing narrative for the viewer.

The display of posters takes the format directly referenced from blocks of posters i cycle past on the way to the college, that of a block of posters about eye height two high. This also answers another question that was raised, "why not the whole wall"- i have never seen fly posted walls where the posters are over the entire wall there is not the time to cover an entire wall in posters and this is what i tried to convey in the piece, the idea of quickly posted material positioned at the right height to be viewed. The rest of the crit seemed to focus on printing mehtods and techniques and not really the content of the work or the issues raised. All the work in the show was screen printed with the intention of giving the aesthetic of quickly produced posters, printed the same day as pasted.

Start Point

Ok so finally got around to working out how to go about blogging and have decided that after having my first ever project space exhibition this is a good point to start from.

So my first project space since starting my MFA at Edinburgh College of Art took place on friday 11th February 2011. This was an oppertunity to exhibit a selection of current work/ ideas within a space in the college. This display of work was done along though not collaboratively with Sander Schoonbeek a fellow student on my course. Sander primarly comes from a sculptural practice but has also worked with printmaking.

Having been rushed into doing this project space so early in the start of the second semester, and being that we were the first of our year to do a project space the game was on to produce a piece of work that adequately conveyed where we are with our work/ practice and also set a decent bar for people to aim for/ past in future project spaces.

I think at this point it is maybe best to just upload some of the images of the show and then type up a little response to criticism/ questions that came up during the show.