Internet art connection website
using the web designing site Square Space webpage which is in black and white and therefore, gives a traditional, classic look. I chose this as I value traditional styles linking to the modern, and to have that central to a site I see is good for me.
There are links to social media such as Facebook and Instagram and these will be the art spaces where I bring in more colour.
Other links will be my podcast which will be in relation to arts, and to an exhibition, along with subjects I am interested in such as the art processes art in education, art therapy, and any other excuse to talk about art in a way that feels worthwhile to share.
In the search for opportunities, I have found an:
Art and Mind support
volunteering role linking music and the brain, singing songs and serving tea with people who suffer from Alzheimers and Dementia , once a month in Clifton. www.alzheimers.org.uk I found this volunteer role on Indeed.
I chose to seek out this position as I have had a long-term interest in art and therapy and people's mental and emotional well-being and brain function. I have also been looking for art and community work and, although it is not local to me, I found a group of people online through Meetup, sharing work and ideas with each other online .
ART COMUNUTIY https://www.meetup.com/weareartists/
Utilising Meet Up to find other creatives and those online is enabling me to share work and to be working on some future art events. This is an opportunity to grow, working with other artists from all over the world online and other places such as London .
Art business
As an artist sometimes I would work independently outside of an organisation that provides their own pay role. Providing my services as self-employed would require me to be registered as self-employed and contact HMRC
This would be collected yearly,
keeping a book to do the transition of cash earning expenses, keeping receipts and once a year tally up the numbers for the Tax Return . Working independently would require me to take up insurance. I have recently I got a quote from a website https://quote.markeluk.com/
priced at £88, which covers arts and crafts and demonstration and teaching. With my ADHD, I struggle with paper work and keeping things in order, so to improve this I will
be looking for an ADHD Coach to work more strategically towards my needs . https://www.gov.uk/access-to-work/print
Artists support
Ryan Botlbee
A freelance artist with an undergraduate degree in
Architecture and Masters in Fine Art , he has lived in for 8 years in Nottingham. He comes from an organisation called ‘No Jobs in the Arts’ an organisation that provides a space for the artist at the beginning of their journey to gain experience.
In the talk, he talked about how to value yourself, weighing up the odds and setting your price
to be treated fairly as an artist. Sharing our experience we discussed and shared better ways to approach
critical thinking and potential negotiation alongside ethics and beliefs and whether a company aligns with your values. He discussed volunteering within an art space. And the idea of keeping a professional journal reflecting on your progress as an artist what is working what is not and keeping a list of connections. I found this talk helpful and take think about these processes to move forward as an artist.
https://www.nojobsinthearts.co.uk/
Artist research
On the 3rd of May, I went to the Nottingham Contemporary Art tour discussion of the recent work and exhibition by the artist Charlotte Johannessen, a self-taught artist from Sweden. Her journey began in the 60s, starting with textile weaving which was called decorative craft. With an interest in politics, she took that into her work which would have been revolutionary. She is self-taught in digital programming for creating weaving whilst also working. When looking at her work I take away the contrast between the traditional craft and technology, something that was potentially seen as ordinary being pushed into the extraordinary through her political pieces. I am using sublimation print and textiles to create diverse interwoven ideas that are both strong and fragile. This I see in her use of materials, and the openness of pieces hanging from the ceiling and enjoy being able to see the raw process to the perfection of the front of the piece. This is something that happens in my current work and previously shows the guttural opening flesh of the piece. Nothing is hidden, a round perspective of the internal and external being.
With the element of traditional women's work engaging with feminine energy through the use of my hands. As I am making, I am cocooning, going into a place that feels comforting to me, sculpting is about the act of making the building of layers. This is a language expressed of necessity to me, grounding in the feel of the familiar but also a feeling of the unknown. Comfort in the process.
On May 4th I went to a conversation with Emily Anderson and Ruth Fainlight talking about a piece created by the photographer and poet Emily and
titled Somewhere Else Entirely.
It was an interesting discussion about the art of creating a film and the ability to work with someone in such an intimate way. How does one do this come across authentically and the willingness to surrender to someone being in your home? For the filmmaker to be able to step in to take you in to be natural with the subject? Also, to work as one yet to be moving through a dance of film that becomes instinctive.
This was an interesting discussion that made me think deeply, finding this central within myself. Through the use of the poet's work, pieces of music and film, it was a beautiful balance. (I did not get the opportunity to watch the film, however).
Taking in the discussion and observing the interaction I felt the relaxed connection between the two, allowing the film to breathe like nature.
I took part in a Music coding workshop to the progress of Lectures and participation using the program sound coder. Typing in commands to enable sounds to be expressed.
I took part in a VIRTUAL REALITY Workshop. This also works with coding. With the use of websites grabbing scenery and music characters to get started. There are plenty of resources online to enable you to grow with the program. The Program that was used was Unity.
Going to these workshops was good as it is something that interests me. I found it challenging at first, however, I know it’s a communication and
a language I am unfamiliar with. However, it’s a direction I would like to move towards
