Notes from the Major Project weekly briefing, 8th October

It was highlighted today, that it is expected that we will produce three separate proposals,
1) research and development proposal which will outline what we are utilising in research terms to help us with our own projects. This is a 500 word times one A4 sheet,
2) a theory proposal, which is a synopsis of the overall theoretical dissertation, of approximately 500 words.
3) a proposal for the major project, which will discuss phase 1 planning, what and how our material investigation will cover, and how we are going to create and perform our studio work. (This is expected to be an ongoing proposal held within your blog site, and will be ongoing until the end of term at Christmas).

There are a number of events scheduled for the next few weeks which will investigate and explore how as artists we will launch ourselves into the art world. The 1st of these is a visit to Nottingham on 22 October to view the new contemporaries exhibition. This will be situated in 3 different artists studios and artists run galleries.

These artists run galleries are usually charity funded or community driven in order to rich the local community that they are based within.
On the return from Nottingham we will also visit the Yorkshire sculpture Park and investigate some of the work of Robert Ryan and his exhibition for illustration. Ideally traffic permitting, we should be back to the Huddersfield University at around 6 PM that evening.

"New Contemporaries" has been an exhibition that has been running since 1949 in order to promote the top "cream" of British fine art, and particularly emerging artists. The exhibition is now and currently funded by Bloomberg's, the banking conglomerate. All the works on show is produced from graduating artists (undergraduates) together with the context of practice.

It is worth exploring the new contemporaries website where it can be seen a number of 2015 is curators and selectors provide short interviews. For example Simon Starling, Hurvin Anderson, Jesse Flood Paddock, and Kirsty Ogg, the New Contemporaries director and curator.

A critical factor in being selected for this show is that art works's need to "the things that need to capture a moment in time" in other words the zeitgeist. This show is all about "what is happening in art now" this is often known as currency.

A key part of all art in this contemporary time is the proper recording of the whole process of creating art. Therefore top quality photography is essential, and we should get into the habit of making regular recordings.

A further source of information suggested would be to take a look at the Victoria and Albert competition for illustrators.
www.vam.AC.UK/b/Villa-2015