What a busy and excellent end-of-year exhibition we had yesterday! It was amazing how many people came to the campus to see the graduation show as well as our Further Education exhibition. Well done everyone!

This was also the end of our assessment and evaluation period. I've been thinking a lot about the meaning of it all, and decided that I don't really like the word evaluation. It reminds me of e-valuation or the de-valuation of something. How can one assess or evaluate art when a) it is highly subjective and personal, and b) one doesn't really know the journey someone has travelled before the final exhibition piece was finished?

One of the ways I can definitely assess my own journey of the last 9 months is this:

I used at least 12 tubes of glue, more likely 15 or more!

I'm so happy to have seen two words in connection with each other in this week's news: Cornelia Parker and embroidery! Parker took a screen shot of the Magna Carta Wikipedia listing on its 799th birthday last year, divided it into 87 sections and sent it to 200 people around the world for embroidery. The result is a 13-meter hand-stitched work of art, exhibited in the British Library until 24th July.

Artists include the famous and the unknown, prisoners and academics. They are united by their love for embroidery, and it very much reminds of the V&A's Quilts 1700-2010 exhibition. Maybe I should finally finish my 'old' embroidery project over the summer?

It was such a busy week, with a good ending though!
Here are just a few of the amazing works of art to be exhibited, together with their creators:

Jacqueline

Mel

Ian Number 3

Deanna

Bev

The remains of the day

 It's been a privilege to be part of the course!

Productive day today, preparing our studio/classroom area into an exhibition space.

First white...

... more white!

Then making grey...

... in a huge quantity (for 3 floors)!

Great team work, folks!