It has been incredibly useful to see my work on the wall against other artists and photographers, to truly judge what I feel I am doing right, what I could be doing better and what I shouldn’t be doing at all, but truthfully, I don’t think I will be able to keep up this particular cadence of shows for next year. This is for two main reasons: firstly, cost, as I have yet to start selling prints to fund the exhibition submissions, and secondly, I’ll be back in part-time study next year to finish my professional architecture qualification.
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Yesterday I popped up to London to deliver a photographic print for consideration for this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. This isn’t something I’d have had the confidence to do without a wee push from one of my old tutors at CSA.UCA - Gabor Stark, along with a confidence boosting photographic portfolio review earlier in the year by Gareth Gardner, who kindly provided his time.
Read MoreA New Year, a new milestone
The past year has provided a couple of critical professional & personal development milestones, not least of which was exhibiting some photographic work I had taken earlier in the year at The Holy Art Gallery, near Dalston Kingsland in London. Then there is also the opportunity I have been provided by both my alma mater and my current employer, for taking up a part-time teaching position at UCA to deliver a module in parametric and generative computational skills for second year undergraduate architecture students.
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