Mentor Meet with Katey, Artist Talk, Making connections and I actually squoze in some painting, before the School run.

Reflecting on work after meeting Nicky Twemlow in the Framescape office for a meeting and realising we'd met when she interviewed me for the Three Counties Artist Panel. Slowly making sense of who does what and how in Stoke on Trent.

Nicky works on Made in Stoke - see Industry Research Page. 

Watched a Cindy Sherman Documentary last night that was food for thought. I looked at Cindy Sherman in relation to her Fairy Tales series last year and related to how she made characters that were overtly false, playing with the archetype. I'd not considered how this series sat within her entire body of work, always adopting a role. Interesting to see how she just plays with something and manages to create tension by replicating someone that you recognise but in a really eerie way.

Maybe thats what I need to do, replicate from photographs but the translation brings the tension.

Met with Katey from ArtUK for a mentor meeting and I asked if she'd be interested in coming in to speak to the Fine Art students about ArtUK, as I'd found it really useful for research and curatorial considerations. Katey was really interested so I ran it past Kite and Anna to see if we could take an Art Talks slot.  Anna suggested that we ask Katey to do 30 mins and bring in a Level 5 thats working her ArtUk for his placement module, and then collate some Art Film Shorts based around artists that work with collections and archives - Brilliant. Spoke to our level 5 and confirmed with everyone and we're all booked in ! 

Spoke to Kite about PICKLE; a project that a contact at BCB is working on,  City of Imagination; another Stoke on Trent Council Gov Funded Project, and The Signal Box which relates to the new development in Stoke and the Dust Rising exhibition. Theres a lot going on.

Signed up for the AA2A business online session

Emailed Rebecca and Level 5 student re the exhibition space to make sure that Croc could use it to collaborate with the Level 5 to offer a space, and to put up our exhibition. There appears to be some discussion around if its available. At this point, I feel I just need to clear my calendar of things that are taking time to discuss and plan, that distract me from painting but don't yield any reward.

Did some painting..

Not sure about the sides of the face sitting harshly in the illustration. This reminds me of how I worked with Lino print on the Dolly Henry project in level 5... enjoying it - but not sure if I need a not more charcoal around the face to make it less opposing..

Just considering work together / how they read together / does the context change.

Still pondering on different ways to represent the contemporary relationship with the witch without the hat.

Created the new poster for the Art Talks after February Half Term:

 

Made a version with Kites work on - I figure its a nice perk of us being the artists behind the talks, and could be a point of reference if Anna Francis wanted to offer out the opportunity to arrange it next year to another student. Edited the text to display the start time as suggested by Kite as some people wanted a reminder.