[LAUIL602] LAU Fine Art Blog and Reflection

After speaking with Duncan about the Fine Art course, he provided me with the Fine Art course blog that contains a plethora of information and resources to software tutorials, art supplies, opportunities, contextualising the pandemic as an opportunity, health and safety information, and so forth. This helps me to identify relevant materials, events and opportunities to my emerging practice and make decisions accordingly.

Selected links that are relevant and of interest to me:

Online Collections and Virtual Tours:

• Google Arts and Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/

• Ubuweb: http://www.ubu.com

• Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza: https://www.museothyssen.org/en

• The State Hermitage Museum: www.hermitagemuseum.org

• Digital Cosmos: https://www.castellodirivoli.org/en/mostra/cosmodigitale/

I can use some of these exhibitions and collections as inspiration and a resource to my Final Major Project and ongoing emerging practice. it is helpful to know collections exist online and in a space that is safe and can be viewed in one's own time - very helpful for my deteriorating vision.

Opportunities:

• TSDAP – Young Emerging Artists and Recent Art Graduates Digital Community (https://www.curatorspace.com/opportunities/detail/tsdap–young-emerging-artists-and-recent-art-graduates-digital-community/5080) Deadline 17th July 2021

Many opportunities have now passed but this one is live and relevant which I am thinking of applying to. 

Art Supplies:

• Cass Art: https://www.cassart.co.uk/

• Atlantis Art: https://www.atlantisart.co.uk/

• Jackson’s Art: https://www.jacksonsart.com/

• Hobbycraft: https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/

• Hindley’s: https://www.hindleys.com/

• B&Q: https://www.diy.com/

• Online Fabrics: https://www.online-fabrics.co.uk/

I knew of B&Q, Hobbycraft and Cass Art already but the others are new to me and will be added to my bookmarks.

Project Space:

• LAU Studio Spaces: https://laufineart.wordpress.com/2021/03/26/our-studio-spaces/ Provides an insight into the studio facilities, current student work and the Graduate degree show from 2019

• BAMS Student Medal Project: https://laufineart.wordpress.com/2021/03/25/bams-student-medal-project/

• Erewhon Exhibition - Level 4 Student Exhibition: https://www.artsteps.com/view/5fc101498f1e3408ea34c90c?

• Making a Happening Workshop: https://laufineart.wordpress.com/2020/05/19/making-a-happening/

• And/Now? Level 5 Exhibition: https://www.artsteps.com/view/5eaad0d26bc1e76fd77c9f22

• MegaStructures: https://laufineart.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/megastructures/

• Domestic Photography: https://laufineart.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/domestic-psychogeography/

• No Where: https://laufineart.wordpress.com/2020/04/27/no-where/

• Home as Fortress: https://laufineart.wordpress.com/2020/04/24/home-as-fortress/

Work to educate, inspire and inform my remerging practice - viewing what others in the student cohort and beyond are making and contextualising that. 

Tutorials include links to learn how to use image editing software (Photoshop and Lightroom), InDesign, Illustrator, video editing software, 3D sculpting software, how to document work with a smartphone, how to make a digital exhibition, lighting at home, LinkedIn Learning and photography basics. Having access to this beyond graduation is deeply invaluable and an endless resource for my practice.