Studio, Contemporary Art and bagging myself an Art Mentor.

 

Jumped into a lecture with Lynne Fathome on Contemporary Art - Aimed at level 4's but interesting to see how my understanding has developed. I'm confident to explain now that I feel contemporary art responds to current culture by investigating something and sharing a perspective that contributes to a discourse. 

The BCB was a good example - the installation about the whales elicited a response before I held the ropes or heard the context. But the contemporary approach; researching and using art as a language to talk about something, changed it into something that really made me consider the impacts of deep sea drilling and made me empathise.

I feel Contemporary art demands a thorough understanding of where influences are from and how they can be interpreted, whilst being receptive to not owning the responses of the audience.

Found some library resources and reconfigured the more communal area of the studio with Kite to give us a chill/ chat / group work area. I'm really keen to use this space well.

I've requested Katey Goodwin as an Art Mentor so am making arrangements to meet up. I'm hoping she can give me some insight into her area of the industry. I've kinda resolved to just grab all opportunities and hopefully I can make some money along the way.. Jumping in by making as much as I possibly can now.