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Evaluation

This  term I don’t think I have fulfilled my full potential. I moved home to Devon  in January due to some family issues going on and this caused a breakdown in  my relationship with my housemates at my uni house. I would come to uni 3 out  of the 5 days a week, staying overnight the Monday and Tuesday and going home  the Wednesday night, and then attending any lectures scheduled for Thursday  or Friday. This worked well for me, and I learnt to balance my time between  practical work in the studio and ensuring I had adequate time to complete  Visual Culture and make a start on organising work experience for  Professional Practice. I was managing everything incredibly well until  Covid19 and we went into lockdown in mid-March 2020. I work in a supermarket,  so suddenly my meagre 12 hours a week were turning into 35+ hours and I was  expected to work that because of the extreme staff shortages we experienced  plus the major situation we were in obviously caused some emotional distress  including insomnia and anxiety. Just as I was managing to get ahold of things  again, my Granddad had 2 strokes and was left now visually impaired – which  meant I had a lot more caring responsibilities than expected. My dad and his  partner were shielding due to being vulnerable, plus an elderly neighbour  with no family nearby, and now my grandparents, along with working a lot more  extra hours. It’s been tough managing all of this on top of managing uni work  but I think I underestimated how much work I actually had. I was really  worried I didn’t have much. Apart from being stupid and leaving quite a bit  in the studio, I’ve managed to complete a substantial amount from home.

 I’m  not particularly thrilled and emotionally invested in my work as the term  finished, but I made it and I’m proud of that! There are pieces I like,  definitely, but there are also things I didn’t enjoy. I’ve found it harder to  concentrate on themes, and every week or so I keep wanting to just ditch the  entire thing and start again.

 I  feel my whole body of work could be more cohesive. I should’ve experimented  more with drawing from life, and abstraction which would have kept me  interested in my work. Having a tiny box room as a bedroom was a bit  complicated in trying to find space to do work but eventually I figured it  out.

 Admittedly,  my studio file is incredibly lacking. Usually, I do my studio file by hand,  and I left the physical file with notes and images in the studio. It was hard  trying to remember things I was looking at and why but I think I’ve managed  to cover the major influences.

 I  think I could’ve made a lot more effort, but I’ve been truly exhausted from  working and my mind has felt completely empty when it comes to thinking of making  art. I feel like I have let myself down, as I do not feel like this  submission is a true representative of my potential and my usual standard of  work. But I am proud that I managed to bring it together and actually submit!  

 My  experimentation at the beginning of term with line, colour, tone and my  initial planning of my quilt were my favourite pieces of work I have done  this semester. Hopefully when I have a bit more time I can come back to those  ideas and prepare myself for 3rd year.

 I hope I’ve managed to convey on this blog the direction my work took due to Covid19 lockdown and it shows what I’ve been up to! 

Some things I’m annoyed I never had time to do - create a seat cushion out of my chair fabric I printed, design some ceramic tiles and paint that design onto some plain ones, get back into my big paintings and experiment with my coloured pencil drawings turning them into paintings. 

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Deconstructed chairs

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A chair reworked (collages on black paper)

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Photoshop patterning

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Messing around with collage.

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Pattern making on large paper & cotton. Thinking about consumerability of this pattern. A seat cover made from chair fabric?? Office wallpaper?

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Inverse

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Chair lino collage

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A wobbly painting of my wobbly chair with lots of nice wobbly details

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Pattern making! I am planning on using this to print onto some fabric to maybe use as a tea towel or fabric to make into an apron. Maybe a cushion??

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Tracing paper chairs. Red and blue are a6 lino and black is a5

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A6 lino of my wobbly chair.

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Chair lino prints. Red and black on the a5 lino size

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SO MANY CHAIRS & NO MORE WALL SPACE LEFT

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My a5 lino, still at the carving stage from a week or two ago

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Double page spread

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Collage. Probably should’ve used the same colour paper as the background for the white bits but oh well! Thinking about the continuous shape between individual squares.