Live Projects

Below is the transcript of the live projects that were proposed by Sam:

So, there is a lady at a school, she's got an idea that she wants to do this art work, but she's been tasked to deliver in July. This for me is a massive red flag right from the start. It's a massive issue, it's July, we have all left in June. Cathy is so enthusiastic about it, she's desperate to do it, she's dead up for it, but the date is just awful. Because it'll be after the time, not necessarily because you wouldn't do it, because lots of enthusiastic students have stayed in previous years through to July when we've had live projects on that's fine that's not a problem at all but it's after you're marked, you're marked at the end of May so that's a bit of a pain and you would still get marked for all the organisation preparation and getting ready for it, but anyway so I'm going to contact them and try and change the day. See if there's any way to doing it another time. If anyone's interested, they have said in the past what they've done is they've made installations or they've made a wall. You know they've done like a wall outside in a playground or something of ceramic tiles basically and she's got an idea to do that again. But I think we could actually propose anything. So, it would be with the kids. It'll be like us leading workshops of how to do it.

The one that I think has the most potential, my big one of the year if I can make it work is the painting picture house, there is some incredible stuff that's been happening at the painting picture house over the last couple of years. So, the Paignton Picture House Trust have been running the building as a charitable trust trying to bring this building back to life trying to make it safe to use, and trying to bring it back into hopefully a full use building. so, they want to actually have it as a live space, a theatre space, they want to have cafes, they want to have community spaces, they want to have kind of like open spaces, libraries and actually bring it back into a full working space and then completely out of the blue a year and a half or so ago They suddenly got national lottery funding and they got millions and millions.

So, they worked on this with no money at all for about 8 years, and, in that time, we did projects in there. So, I've done two theatre shows in there and we've done collaborative projects, we've done but there's a lot of details I need to find out about this project. It is funded, which is great, so I know there's money, a lot of money. So, there would be a budget for materials, equipment, time, but not pay.

I also know that Alex and some of the media students have already been making films and making photographs and making little animations and things like that.

I think, possibly, that the idea is to create screens, to create sculptures, to create surfaces or whatever in the cinema that their films are then projected onto, possibly. So, it might be kind of installation based. But there's also a massive question mark at the moment because they ripped down part of the ceiling, and found asbestos. So, there's also a huge safety question on that's actually getting into the building. So, it's really hard for me to introduce this to you because basically what I'm saying is I have no idea what's happening. Might have something. They also have a shop on the other side of the road directly opposite the cinema. Which is like a raw version of Make Tank. So that's part of the cinema.  

So, if we can't safely exhibit in the cinema itself, I'm thinking that we can exhibit, we can make a big thing of the shop front over the road, supporting the cinema.

WINDRUSH

 This is an organisation looking at Windrush celebrations. The Windrush project is a group organisation working partly between India, Africa and the United Kingdom.

And it's looking at some kind of celebrations for the Torbay area in the summer.

They're applying for funding for this at the moment, which is why I haven't heard back from them because I haven't heard back about the funding yet. So, we still have a massive question mark on this project. Essentially, what they want to do is look at celebrating and paying respects to the Windrush in Greece that kind of all came over in the 40s. They're going to find out about funding later in February.

So, this is the kind of project where you can start the research now. You can start researching everything about the wind rush generation. You can start researching the last Turner Prize Winner, because the person who won the last time was all about the wind rush generation.

Veronica Ryan wins 2022 Turner prize for work including Windrush tribute | Turner prize 2022 | The Guardian

What do they want? Do they want costumes? Do they want fashion? Do they want banners? Do they want flags? Are they doing a parade?

It's another one that's going to happen in the summer, so again we would manage our work load so that we produce the work early.  Even if the Windrush celebrations themselves were in July or August, it doesn't matter because we can make the stuff beforehand. If this kind of deadline is fine, we can just produce everything by May and deliver it to them, and it's like done, and you'll get marks for all of that, you just won't unfortunately be able to show the actual final show of the celebration itself.

My Response:

I was very interested in joining the Picture House project but it didn't jump out at me when it was proposed to us. I was excited to be a part of the Windrush celebration and started thinking about what we would do for that project. However, the Windrush didn't happen in the end for us, but I had planned to be a part of it and get very involved.

We were still planning our Exeter exhibition anyway, so that counts as work experience. The exhibition ended up taking a lot more time than I expected as I had to take on a bigger role, due to some people not doing as much as others. So part of me is pleased I didn't take another project on as well.

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Personal project:

I decided to enter an Instagram Spring challenge. They had prompts for what you needed to create in your own vison and style. The host artists showed their versions for inspiration, and tagged the challenge so we could easily browse the people who had entered the challenge and follow them as well.

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College Exhibition:

In January I put up my work at the college in the gallery, which was my very first exhibition of my own work. I used my project from Katie's module, exploration for innovation, where I created some pages and a cover from a children's book using collage and screen printing which I took into the digital realm and created the scenes. I had also created a seamless pattern for the book's inside cover with trees.

I decided to keep it simple and mount the printed final pieces onto black card. I also wanted to display my neon screen prints of the dragon characters I had created, so I cut them up and mounted the similar ones onto card as a collage. I used pins with Sally's help to put them up onto the display boards.