PROPOSAL.

Now although I hold our exhibition EXCHANGE in rather high regard, I am also pretty excited for the sister show in the second half of the gallery, PROPOSAL of second year painting students. Here are a few of my most favorite pieces.

SOMETHING, LIKE NOTHING, CAN HAPPEN ANYWHERE.

My work was on this giant wall so I had to fill it up with LOADS of prints. I think I jammed them in quite well.. Over by the window is Sheldon Stansfield`s beautiful cups and box. I think the two sets of work looked pretty damn swish next to each other! Also the massive glass wall on that side of the gallery is my favorite part of the building I think. The green of the trees made for a nice comparison for my hanging baskets.

CUTS.

This is my other piece, some vinyl cut out and stuck up on the window at the front of the gallery. That window is 5m sq. and very high up. I had to be on the top step of the biggest ladder. A little before and after pic.

EXCHANGE. PRIVATE VIEW.

Here are some pictures of our private view for EXCHANGE, our final exhibition at Nagoya University of Arts. It was so nerv-wracking as I`m sure my face shows! We each had to give a little speech about our work and I totally lost my confidence, stood rod still and stared at my piece of paper for the full 2 min 12 seconds I was speaking. Shelly, Lucy and Anna all were amazingly confident and gave their speeches perfectly! We `made` scones too with jam and butter which seemed to go down very well, and quickly actually. Can you see all the tables of food? I ate pretty much all of it. The other 147 people there didnt get a look in.

PREPARATION.

Most of my work is done for the exhibition. Just putting the glazes on the woodcuts and need to sew up my hanging baskets. I was taking down some test pieces for my window print and saw all the bugs on the window sill; not uncommon I know, but there were so many of them I thought it was piles of dust. Decided to take some and spent the rest of the afternoon painting them white. Did you know that the surface tension in water is stronger than a fly`s leg? Spray paint was the way forward.

EXCHANGE.

With the printmaking woodcut show now uninstalled and finished its time to start thinking about our final exhibition, EXCHANGE. Had a little play on indesign last night and got the poster made. Now for the hard bit, getting my work made...

WOOD YOU LIKE TO?

I have been invited to show in a woodcut exhibition of printmaking students and tutors. I am very scared. Also excited though, because it will be my first in Japan and I have a crit on monday to check up on what I am intending to put in. Sae (my friend in printmaking who I sit next to) gave me a copy of the invite today. If you havnt gathered already, its been raining so it got a bit mushy in my bag. Soz.

GALLERIED.

At university one building houses the gallery which is used by students (I have a show on 17th May and one at the beginning of July) and by visiting artists, tutors and such like. We went to have a snoop around, mostly to have a look at the space (which is huge) and eye up what would be expected of us. In there at the moment is some some students work and a piece by one of the tutors on the production of meat. You are given a delicate paper animal and go through the stages of production, slowly destroying the paper animal. I thought it was brill.

We also went to the Aichi Arts Centre to have a peak at some of the work in there. It is huge! We met a nice lady who offered for us to come to her studio and see her work.