SHE CAN'T GO OUT IN PUBLIC WITHOUT A DISGUISE AND A BODYGUARD 

New start

Volunteering at the Whitworth Art Gallery

I spent the summer volunteering for the family programme at the Whitworth Art Gallery, in the run up to their closure this week with a festival in the park. As well as helping out with their childrens' classes a few days a week over the summer (DIY Art & Colourful Sundays), I worked at the festival with a kite making workshop and various childrens' activities, helped make some of the decorations for the park, namely cutting, decorating and sewing together about 300m of bunting, and also helped put together the 'Memory Shed'.

As well as gaining experience in a creative job area, I have made contacts with people at the Whitworth Gallery (for when they re-open as I will be finishing my degree), and have also gained some inspiration for my dissertation, being around kids in a creative environment. I got to speak to some like-minded people, and some that have done similar degrees to mine, and spoke to them about what to do after a degree if you don't want to be an artist. 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.

Pablo Picasso

I WANT ALL MY IMAGES TO BE FOUND.

FRONT COVERS, ADVERTS, PHOTOGRAPHS THAT COULD BE ALBUM COVERS, PORTRAITS, POSTERS, CAREFUL NOT TO USE IMAGES THAT ARE ALREADY SOMEBODY'S WORK.

DISSERTATION ...

Child art and artists inspired by child like art styles

2001 Whitworth exhibition on child art - Wonderland? 

Children as audience in an art gallery

Galleries that embrace children - workshops, activities, encouragement 

Interpretation of art work, all audiences 

Artists that encourage a specific response and interpretation, and those that leave it to the viewer

BARRY MCGEE X JIM GOLDBERG

EARLY DISSERTATION IDEAS

Creativity & imagination
Importance of creativity in education
Importance of creativity outside of the art industries and in every walk of life - innovation
Children and craft, imagination with materials
Differences between adults and children in terms of craft and creativity
Childhood fascination with tactile and brightly coloured objects
Art and craft bringing out the child in adults
Do successful artists have the ability to use their imagination in a childlike way to come up with ideas, have they maintained that from childhood?

Potential for interviews, case studies and external project at the Whitworth Gallery (child and adult programmes).

STEPHEN ANTONAKOS

Painted furniture and backdrop white to be pasted with manuscript for the music room scene and installation

Done

Online review of our exhibition

http://style-etc.co.uk/art-life/

Set up for assessment

I've hired a light box for assessment. My work is at it's best when illuminated.

I want the tutors to see the work presented as it would be in a more professional exhibition environment.. Or just somewhere more flexible and practical than my current studio space. For example I can't display on a window and I don't have the resources to wall-mount a large backlit piece of work. I was very pleased with how my work looked on a small table-top light box, the viewer can see the illuminated marks and layered colours of the work and also control the on/off switch. This is an idea that I could use in a show environment - the viewer able to control the viewing of the work, whether it is seen/illuminated/communicating as they would as a consumer in the real world concerning advertising imagery.

Cut! Reproduction and Recombination. The Wretched of the Screen journal

I found this essay very interesting, here's an extract talking about the reproduction and stunted communication of images.