The blog of an art student

For the next 3-4 weeks were doing some kind of weird mini- degree where each week is a year of our degree and at the end we have a mini-degree show and a graduation and everything, you know just for the banter.   Task 1- Matter.   I actually really enjoyed this task and completed not one but only TWO bloody matter pieces. The idea of matter was to make something that either fits in an area/space, is made for an area, made in the area or does something for some sort of space, ye that sounds kind of right, i basically just shortened what the tutor had said to decorating a space in anyway and anywhere we want.   When we first started this project my group decided to sit together and discuss ideas, see who needed help coming up with ideas and so on. This discussion ended up changing from helping each other think of individual ideas to doing a group project. Our idea was to make a teepee kind of thing in a corner of t...

On no other course then fine art would your first task be to collect items by dumpster diving and stealing from the other courses. Basically quite quickly learning that rubbish is cool and that every other course in this building hates fine art students.  Task 1-The Rubbish.  So, we where doing some kind of cyanotype printing which is a type of printing which included the use of chemicals on materials and direct sunlight creating a reaction to change the colour or something, i'm not entirely sure what was going on but it was frikin cool. We done this process buy having a large piece of material soaked in whatever these chemicals are, something to do with cyanide i think and then we where told to get items which would hopefully leave interesting prints and outlines on the material, so we weren't just collecting rubbish for the fun of it. Later that day the groups came together with t...