It has to be one of the best decisions I made all year to have this tutorial with Yuen. Although I have had to keep moving the tutorial, because of illness or the Nottingham trip I have finally got to see him. Yuen's perception of my drawing and conceptual input has pulled up so many useful points. First of all, my nude self portrait we discussed how my fiancee wanting the paper to cover the genitals has drawn attention to it making the piece even more sexual. He then ask me what if you move the paper over the hand? and when I did I immediately wanted to know what I was holding although I knew it was nothing...weird. Second I have left off my scars and earring and other distinctive marks, for which I had know answer, apart from it must have been completely subconscious I hadn't done it intentionally and I hadn't noticed. Maybe there was a possibility that because I was searching for male perfection in contemporary society I tried to perfect myself, this also would then mean that these distinctive marks on my body I perceive as imperfections. And it questions wether there piece is a self portrait or if these marks define who I am or where I've been, my history. All I know is as soon as I got home I made this piece, (right) highlighting the imperfections I missed on my self portrait. I couldn't stop myself if I tried. |
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This post is to simply say thank you to Michelle and the group for a great year. And good luck third years I hope you all obtain the grades you desire.
Ive never organised a trip away with friends to specifically view art galleries before. Especially considering this was not organised at all by the university, and all the research came from us, I felt a real sense of achievement having done it like I had started to really find my feet in the art world. Also this was a major step on from my previous semesters showing that I'm improving my contextual awareness an area I have been laking in on previous assessment. (For more information on the artwork in the trip please visit the Exhibitions page)
Presentation for the symposium and it documented the entire process of Inner Absence from its birth as working title to taking the exhibition down.
Although I appeared to have no nerves and by all accounts I gave a very good speech I was absolutely petrified I put in some jokes on the slides to try and take the edge off the talk but I also tried to make the speech using no notes as the piece of paper could have been distracting and due to my dyslexia it would have probably be harder to read it anyway. In the end our group got excellent feedback from the guest speaker Lesley Guy and the buffet had no left overs. Job well done I think.
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Richard CassidyEmerging artist from Derby, England. Currently a student at Sheffield Hallam University. Archives
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