Tuesday, June 7, 2011

This is where I'll tell what exhibitions I went to during the year.....there a few more but i dont remember fuck all of em



I'm going to rate these exhibition in a 'Come Dine With Me' style, each one will get a mark out of 10.

Febuary 16th
went to the Crawford to see the photography exhibit ‘Altered Images’
 
Good enough show,some interesting pieces of work but I'd only give it a mark of 5



February 25th: 
went to an exhibition in the opera house by print makers from the backwater print makers, first year print students from the Crawford and artists from CSN. The prints from the first years, with the help of Katrine, were deadly....pretty fuckin cool

I give this show a mark of 7

March 17th: the Terminal Convention

this show was sum load of dung....the amount of money that went into to was appalling.....These liverpoolians dat ran it,sum knob called paul were definutly not the Beatles of the Art world.

the building itself was cool, but the work was awful and up its own hole with no reason to be....

because of this I will give the show a mark of 2
However because there was a free bar and a load of wine and chilli I'll change the mark form 2 to 4  

May 1st : Third year ccad students show 'Ground Floor'

That the show was deadly, the space was fantasic, alot of work was top notch.....Da man Rory Mullans cardboard shop was top notch, and the free drawings he gave away for free could have been sold for 100$ they were dat beautiful. I got a lighter drawing held it through the night,through 2 party den managed to lose it in college the next day,ferious death. 
Rob,s security video piece was also amazing, could easilly go toe to toe with any work in the turner prize.
Also the views from the 17th floor penthouse and the rooftop garden are mint, apparently.

I give this show a mark of 8

This is modern art eps2

Micheal Gurhey Talk Crawford-Ex Crawford and Central St Martins MA



Life after Crawford:
RDS student awards
Sirius good group space
Artists journal (Know how/do how)
Research diploma, post grad / MFA
MA application - don’t get too bogged down
Berlin post grad “free”
Funding:
Fees per year £3.000
www.arts.ac.uk/ma-funding.htm
www.arts.ac.uk/pg-funding.htm
www.artscouncil,ie/en/available_funding.asp
Think outside the box
Council tax, think about if you are a student, would it apply
Apply for everything- rejection is normal
Blogspot.com
art request.org.uk
new exhibitions.com
e-flux.com
Saatchi-gallery

Dobz O brian talk crawford


National Sculpture Factory

Possible steps after college:
Masters
Travelling residencies
Grants
Getting plugged in locally and internationally (magazines/websites)
Exhibitions
Training workshops

Masters:
Not important to do soon from college
Be specific, where and why
Research
Germany - sculpture / Holland - craft
MA more academic
MFA studio based
Research artist you like and where they studied
2 1 requirement
No definitive route/rules

Residency/Funding
Resartis.org
VAI newsletter
Arts council - financial support
Think about visa’s
Every country has grants
don’t be afraid to ask for help with grant
Grants can be public/private

Exhibitions
Public/private galleries (private is closed system) - open submissions (EVA/TULCA)
Talk with everyone network
Be strategic, think about where you position yourself
Basil- huge art fair
Plug into the international art “scene”

Friday, June 3, 2011

William Kentridge, southafrican artist







raw daycent

a little look at charles bukowski, poet and writer


Alone With Everybody


the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
and the women break
vases against the walls
and the men drink too
much
and nobody finds the
one
but keep
looking
crawling in and out
of beds.
flesh covers
the bone and the
flesh searches
for more than
flesh.

there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.

nobody ever finds
the one.

the city dumps fill
the junkyards fill
the madhouses fill
the hospitals fill
the graveyards fill

nothing else
fills.
 
 
"There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
 

Philip Guston- Selection of work

Guston in his Studio



Guston- untitled (cherries) 1980

Guston- Anxiety

Guston - view

Guston- painting on the floor