February, 26th; Berlin Trip on the 2nd of March!

You won`t be hearing from me for another week or so!
Unfortunately, I`ll be going to Berlin for a week with University.

This is supposed to be a cultural, Museum and Gallery visit around Central Berlin. I`m a little bit scared about going considering all of the recent attacks over seas, and we do have to be careful whilst navigating our way through Berlin as a large group.
I`ve been worried about going for a while now, so that`s why I`ve avoided posting about it up until now.

I`ll be going away this Thursday, and I`ll be staying there for five nights and 6 days visiting galleries and Museums (also, a possible concentration camp). Then after that It`ll be preparing for a Presentation, I`ll be writing up an Essay and producing my practical studio work.

So this was just a short update, to tell everyone that I`m going away again for a while; but I shall be back! Hopefully with a hugeeeee update and plenty of photos to accompany that. You should also be able to find all of those photos on the facebook page once I`ve returned.

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Keep updated!


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February, 19th; London Trip!

So then guys, I`ve been in the studios quite a bit lately; from now on we`re just in there all of the time without fail, 9-5pm. Then afterwards I have theory work to be doing, so really i just spend a lot of time researching... That`s whenever my laptop decides to start working. Andddd yes, my laptop has broken and freezes almost everytime i click on something so I`m really struggling with trying to do my research an my blogging and my deviantart and my redbubble.
As you can see, the list goes on.


So, There is a loooot of stuff that I need to catch up on once again!
There will be updates on Redbubble soon, I just need to load up my new images onto my boyfriends laptop to then work on Redbubble.

Gerhard Richter.

Last week, on Friday we took a quick trip to London.
When I say quick, I mean that we left at 6am, and then got back into derby at 00:30am. So it was a very long day for all of us.

We began by following and itinerary that our lecturer had made for us, the small little Irish guy that likes to drink quite a bit.
I basically spent the whole day with Mel and Rachel. We began at the Tate Modern, I haven`t been since they added the large 10 floor extension so I didn`t want to miss the artist exhibitions rooms in there. We spent about 3 hours in there in total, and I managed to get into the two paid exhibitions. The Robert rauschenberg exhibition and The Radical Eye exhibition.
Whilst walking around, I did see a lot of sculptures and paintings from the last time that I went to the Gallery which was about a year or two ago.

Walking around, I think i was more interested in the video/performance pieces of art work that I saw. Mainly because they seemed to of made more sense, a lot of the work there is just paint on a canvas, or a badly illustrated story that isn`t coming through as effectively as the video pieces of work.
I do wish we had a lot longer to walk around there, some of the work was really moving and powerful and the work displayed by Gerhard Richter did make me cry actually... Sado.

The Rauschenberg exhibition did make me cry, and so did the Gerhard Richter... Then later on, the Anselm Kiefer exhibition over at a different gallery site.
It`s just that when you study an artist, and you`ve looked at there work online and in books and you`ve studied some of their most famous pieces of work; seeming them in person is just amazing, and the best experience you could possibly have. I`ve never actually cried at a art exhibition aswell, so I did feel quite stupid walking around this gallery fanning my eyes so no one else could see me cry. Same with Gerhard Richter, that wasn`t even a paid exhibition; but still seeing the sheer scale of the work and the textures up close moves you.
Look, I basically liked their work.

After the Tate Modern, we had a 30 minute walk to the White Cube Gallery, and our lecturer almost got us lost twice whilst we where heading over there. That was another extremely moving exhibition to witness in person. He`s another artist who i`ve studied for a very long time, and my eyes where watering the whole time i was walking around there. He had the whole run of the gallery, which seems small on the outside but it`s huge when you get in there.
There was a mixture of side rooms that where darkly light up and eerie to walk around, then about three rooms that where full of bright natural light that really showed you the proper colors of the pieces of work that where in there.
It was all very dramatic and set up in a way that really showcased every detail of his work.

It was another very moving exhibition, it`s one of those ones where you cant really put into words the size and the effect it actually has on you. I would of preferred it if it was quieter whilst we where walking around but there was about 51 of us who went in total. If you can get there and it`s quite, you`ll feel the full effect of the art work, and hopefully you`ll get a much better viewing experience in total.

There really isn`t a way to explain the artwork in the very back room, That`s where the large scale wall pieces where kept, and you could see all of the amazing colors that the melted metals had created and the layering that had been taken off to reveal the base layers... just ugghhh, it was good.
I couldn`t shut up telling my mum about the exhibition when I got back home, I think that was the show that made the whole day amazing, I had no idea he was even exhibiting in London prior to applying and paying for the trip there.


After the Tate Modernand the Anselm Kiefer Mel, Rachel and I began to venture off around london.
Luckily we didn`t get lost.
Rachel knew what she was doing with the tubes and stuff, so she was basically our navigator for the day.

We managed to also got to the Whitechapel Gallery, The Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery.
According to what we hared from everyone else, they managed to go to three galleries in total since they followed the lecturer around for the day I`m serously happy that we did agree to go off for the day by ourselves, I feel like I spent a lot more time admiring the artwork rather than rushing around to find another gallery.

Whitechapel Galley was strange, and we only went to see one exhibition there; and that was the Guerrilla Girls.
An anomynous group of artists, who are all female and all where guerrilla masks to keep their identities a secret. The group of woman make controversial art based off of surveys and statistics that they collect from galleries and museums worldwide.
They even had a large piece on the floor which name and shamed about 200 galleries and museums that rejected their survey and never sent a response back to them, after that there was about 100-130 (i think) that actually responded and answered the surverys.
I`d never even heard of the group before, but after seeing their work it`s shed a whole new light on the artworld, they`re sexist and do not want women to exhibit alongside men. Which is scary, it`s scary to think that there are 33 people on my course, only 5 of those are men and the rest are women. So out of 33, at a typical gallery, only those 5 men would exhibit together.
That idea is just scary.

I didn`t get any pictures at the national portrait gallery, Since you`re not supposed to take pictures in there anyways.
Then in the Tate Britain gallery, I took hardly any images as a lot of the work in there was sculptural, there where two paid exhibitions and I couldn`t take pictures in there.

But yeah, the Whitecube and the Tate Modern where the most moving exhbitions to go to, and i would love to go again.

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February 4th; Return To University, Where Have I Been?

It`s been over a month now since I last updated, which I promised myself I wouldn`t do... AGAIN!

I`ve been back at University for 2 weeks now, tomorrow will start my third, but that`s two weeks out of a very short semester of 12 weeks. I haven`t updated at all for over a month as half way through my little Christmas break, My lecturer had e-mailed us with our module handbook with a large list of everything that we should have finished by the time we get back to University.

So in reality, I was picking up loads of shifts at work (and I got £10 each shift I covered)!! Which meant that I had quite a bit of money saved up for when I started University again late January. Then along with all of the shifts I was picking up, I was trying to write two essays, get my journal work completed, produce some photographic work as a source material to generate ideas for the project and then begin producing some kind of 3D work that would help me produce even MORE work back at University.
Eventually everything linked up together and I got all of my work done alongside my actual job at the care home.

Overall my lecture is pretty happy with the ideas that I`ve got, wasn`t too keen on some small sample pieces of work I did; he said they seemed a bit too accurate, like I had placed everything purposefully and he didn`t like that too much.
The journal he`s happy with, it`s slightly bulging however and he would rather it be as flat as possible; it`s because of all of the textured pieces of work I`ve been putting in there to show as to what I`m going to be working with and how I`ll be working with my materials that I collected.

Along with the studio project, that is basically like the main module which is called Primary Practice, we have another project that we have a four hour lecture for on a Wednesday morning called Concepts and something... I can`t believe I`ve already forgotten as to what it`s bloody called.
It`s honestly the worst module I`ve ever done, and I mean through school and sixth form too, cause I feel so stupid; For Wednesday we have to discuss a piece of text and I can`t make heads or tails of it and it`s super frustrating to try and read.

I`ll be trying to get everything back to normal, I`m not doing quite well with my time management outside of University and it`s been weeks since I`ve seen my own bloody dad!
I`ll get it together at some point, I hope!

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