Back to School

First day back at uni today. We had a group seminar with our second year group and the six full time students from the first year group. It was mainly a session of introductions and updates, but it was really good to see everyone again and talk about art. I find the support a group of fellow students provides extremely helpful.

We've also had a change of studio, our old MA room has been given over to the undergraduates and instead we've got a space on the ground floor that was filled with third year undergrads last year. Its a really good move as the room is bigger, the light is better and we've even got a desk area for seminars. I will miss having a pc in the room though, as a lot of my time spent in the studio was using the computer. It's still going to be rather cramped in there, as there's ten part time first years as well as the six full time students, and along with the ten or so in our group that makes 26, so board space is going to be at a premium. We have, however, decided to keep one wall free for displaying work, so those who don't/can't use the MA studio as much as others have somewhere to put their stuff up. I suspect I might be one of those people as I dont know how much I'll be able to use the MA room. Having a space at eagleworks will probably mean I'll spend the majority of my studio time there and use the MA room for displaying work.

I've also arranged with Maggie (one of the lecturers on the undergraduate course) to do some teaching, unpaid of course, but its valuable work experience and looks pretty good on the cv. So then this coming friday I'll be helping run a drawing workshop with the second years (I think),then maybe doing some work with the undergrads doing the dissertation module. should be fun.