Reflections on the weekly briefing, Thursday 21st of April 2016.

The planning proposal sheets have been submitted and assessed by the curatorial board for the graduate degree show. Whilst there are some of the students who may not have submitted their proposals in time, I am confident that everyone will be accommodated into the exhibition space.

Dr Graham Lister provided a number of pointers and advice today on some areas that we should always avoid when exhibiting work. For example never to use clip frames for any artwork, or cheap pine style picture frames that are picked up in supermarkets or garden centres! The reason why these should not be used is because they beg the question "why is this piece of art deserving of attention?". And the worst of all would be to exhibit your works in traditional family photo frames; unless specifically it was that particular subject which was under scrutiny. Dr Lister also recommended never to use nails or other vulgar or crude fixings, unless they are to emphasise the nail-ness or crudeness etc...

In essence, the objective is to try to make things, whether they be paintings or sculptures, float off the wall.

A reminder was given that the setting up of the gallery will start on Tuesday, 3 May, (Monday second of May is a bank holiday and the University is closed). As a result of this, the studios will be completely emptied of first and second-year work by 29th of April.

Conclusions whilst my own work is taking a fair bit of time to complete, I am still reasonably confident that the timescales will be met and a sufficiently finished artefact will be produced in plenty of time to allow me to experiment in the way that it is going to be presented.