Let me start by telling you a bit about me. I am a textile artist.
Actually I am a student in a textile arts course in my final year, but I am
getting used to the fact that I am still a textile artist regardless whether
or not I have finished my course.
As this is our final year, we are required to put on a graduate exhibition
of our work in November. This is a multi-facete task. Not only do we need
to produce enough peices for the exhibition (a minimum of 5 works to include
3 major and 2 minor), but we also have to go through the entire process of
setting up an exhibition including obtaining funding to cover all of the
costs of galleries, catering, publishing etc. Whilst I am stumped with the
artwork for the moment, it is organising the exhibition that is getting the
better of me.
We have a small group of 9 students who are all working together (or at
least should be working together) to organise our group exhibition. This
whole process is painful with many heated discussion and arguments over the
simplest and most meaningless things. Then there's the balancing act of
those actually doing the work and those who sit there and ask "when is" and
"who is" and "what about", without actually doing anyhting at all. I think
they believe that they are doing their bit by telling everyone else what is
to be done.
Anyway, that is not the point of this journal, so onto other and better
things. I want to use this journal as a means of documenting the progress
of my exhibition pieces and to jot down ideas and thoughts regarding these
peices (and any others that come up along the way). This way I will be able
to make use of the gaps in my work day as well as progressing towards my
finished exhition pieces, and also creating notes for the journal that needs
to be submitted for TAFE about the development of my exhibition works. It
is not necessarily intended for anyone to read, but if there is anyone out
there interested in my babble and who has anything to add or comment on
about my work or any of the topics brought up, please feel free.
