A Year in Review
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.
Next steps...
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.
A 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.
A weekend in Brussels
The weekend in Brussels happened pretty much by accident, as I had originally planned to take the train to Berlin from London, but due to DB’s timetable changes, that did not work. So, I ended up with a return ticket to Brussels that couldn’t be refunded and had to be used. Why not? I’ve passed through it a couple of times on the way to elsewhere on the continent, so I may as well take it in and see what the administrative capital of the European Union is like.
Europe in May - Kraków
The first day in Kraków was rather damp, although this fortunately still provided opportunity for some rather atmospheric shots. I can’t help but notice however the stark contrast between the photography I did in Berlin with that I did in Kraków – evidently the latter was less experimental. Is this a bad thing?
Europe in May - Berlin
Last Saturday I headed to Europe for a short break – namely a weekend in Berlin followed by a few days in Krakow, which incidentally was my first visit to Poland (and will be documented in a subsequent blog post).
Popped down to Hastings
I will fully admit that my mind may be playing tricks on me, but if I had been to Hastings before, it was likely for a school trip when I was still very young. Or with a classmate around the same time. Either way, I don’t have much of a memory of Hastings, so I took the train down to have a wander around…