Stylus t. Frog and the student exhibition...
Categories: artwork, general-stuff
Tags: iPad art, College exhibition, Guildford
Date: 12 February 2012 13:58:45
It's been a long year.
Actually it's been a long year starting July 2011 when things started to hot up in a big way for the World Skills Fest. Neither Stylus t. nor I feel like our flippers have touched the floor since.
In Oct it was the World Skills Fest of course, closely followed by LITS. That took me pretty much up until Christmas. So far this year it's been demoing IWB artwork at BETT on behalf of Art Rage and Promethean, planning for a holiday club (this coming week), helping the Royal Academy staff get the most out of Brushes app (tomorrow), talking to the London Mac User Group (also tomorrow), prepping a few school trips (starting beginning of March and so on) and organising the run in for students towards their final exam projects. I've got a meeting about book 9 tomorrow as well. Very busy month!
Through January until now the main thing on my agenda was the opening of the Fine Art, Graphics and Photography students work at the Bar Des Arts, Guildford. (It's on until the 20th of Feb so still time to catch it if you want to).
And it was a very cool happening indeed. Both the Bar Des Arts and Haydon Gallery were brilliant in helping me on the organisational side and it's lovely to see the Fine Art, Photography and Graphics pieces side by side (well, photography are in their own room - their choice - but we're together in spirit).
So, added here are a few pics from just before the opening. The opening night was nuts, students, parents, visitors and college staff all over the place and I took some photos (but they're all awful) so here's the gallery in the calm few moments before the storm :)
(the table was an exhibit, although it wasn't always recognised as such. Made by a graphics student who also does carpentry at the college and a lovely mish-mash of both worlds... The pink sofa belongs to the BDA :) )
One student even managed to create three graphic pieces, print them on to vinyl and wrap them around drum kits. It makes for a very powerful display piece...
Most heartening for me is that a number of chosen pieces, chosen by the students not by me. were created on iPad. That's great as it's where I hope we'll go in the next year, more and more. Certainly things like iBook Author, Brushes app, Nomad brushes etc all make life much easier in bringing people to tablet devices... Also lovely is that every picture here tells a story and a number tell quite large stories, whether triumph through depression or working around autism. There's a lot involved in the artwork on show, and not just the framing and hanging of it all... An excellent show, hope to be part of many more as lovely as this one has been.