Critique group (Two). Presenting work in the Exhibition.

The purpose of these critique groups is to create a professional dialogue between the students as peers, and also as artists.

(Prof Swindell's opened the conversation with an announcement regarding the Woan Art Prize, where exhibits are requested from third-year degree students, eligible for a prize of the sum of £20,000 for contemporary art to be exhibited at the Baltic Gallery in Newcastle).

It was pointed out that it will be necessary to create a "meta-narrative" for the up-and-coming graduate exhibition to be held in May, and we should all be cognizant of this as we approach the final phase of our studies.

A useful research book worth perusing, would be "Relational Aesthetics" by Nicholas Bourriaud, which explores the dialogue between viewer and artist. Another good reference and source point would be the Document 10 catalogue which provides layouts of the exhibition that was held, entitled "Politics Poetics".     The most important question one should ask when curating, and indeed creating artworks, would be "how do you get a viewer to feel the way that they would about a piece of work, in the same way, that you as the creator may do".
This is related to the work I have recently been investigating concerning affect and how does one create affect.
"People think what they want to think" as a first impression, as they approach a new piece of work. As an artist, you need to think how do you control this?.

Works to explore would be, for example,
Samuel Palmer;
Pisanello.
Mark/Martin Rutmyers.