May 2, 2016

Bank Holiday Monday. 9.00 am. It has begun: the main studios are now being dismantled and ‘re-mantled’ as galleries. Watch these spaces!:

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A morning of final, second year fine art tutorials in preparation for the feedback tutorials, which begin next week. Some principles and observations derived from today’s encounters and reflections:

  • Failure is part of an art student’s/artist’s normative experience. Failure is part of an art student’s/artist’s normative experience. Failure is part of an art student’s/artist’s normative experience. One cannot say this too often.
  • The essence of ‘sketchbook’ is defined by the essence of the work for which it is a preparation. One size will certainly not fit all. The essence of its function, for the tutee, is to anticipate, encounter, work-through, and visualise possible responses to problems and challenges that’ll be more fully engaged in the finished work.
  • Read aloud what you wrote in silence. Your ear will tell you whether sentences make sense.
  • What you’ll achieve in one’s years time may bear no comparison to what you can do now. Be prepared to astonish yourself.

In the toothy gaps of absenteeism, I posted tutorial notifications for the week ahead and began undergraduate dissertation review.

The weather improved significantly after lunch:

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The first call of the afternoon was to present the rescheduled and final Art in Wales lecture, on Welsh collier-artists. The remainder of the period was set aside for an essay consultation and varieties of advisements and assessments. Good progress had been made by today’s teams of undergraduate helpers, under Mr Garrett’s and Phil ‘the Porter’s’ efficient and no nonsense supervision:

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An evening off, enjoying the remains of a Bank Holiday.

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