New blog

I have set up a new blog on Artists Newsletter which is specifically for students in the final year of their degree - or in my case 2 years as I am part time!

I haven't found out how to link it to this blog yet but am working on it you can find me here if you would like to follow my degree year journey!

www.a-n.co.uk/link/rosiek-blog

I will continue to blog here on wider issues! Like the Anselm Kiefer exhibition at the Baltic in Newcastle - if you are in the North of the country then I recommend a visit - here is a taster image

Anselm Kiefer. Man under a Pyramid ,1996
© Tate, London 2010
Emulsion, acrylic, shellac and ash on burlap
2810 x 5020 x 50 mm
ARTIST ROOMS
Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

I do hope you will visit my other blog and leave me your thoughts, comments

Back to Uni

After a year of traveling and settling myself down in Devon I am back on my part time Fine Art degree course - I have transferred from Leeds College of Art and Design to Plymouth University and today was the first induction day and welcome! I am impressed with the library and resources available to students - it's huge compared to where I was before and will take a while to find my way around! I can't wait to start the course next week although the thesis is a bit daunting and will certainly be challenging! I have 2 years more to complete the degree equivalent to the 3rd and final year of a full time course.

Last year before taking a year off I was working with a family archive of transparences and using projection - I am keen to see if I can deepen this process - work with them in a different way - these are a couple of the images which were projected in a pair (side by side). The transparences were quite damaged but this was exactly what made them so exciting for me - memories of deceased family (this is my mother who died 30 years ago) are often fragmented and faded!

I'll be using this blog now as a way of exploring my practice over the next couple of years - using it as a kind of sketchbook/journal of the work I am doing for my degree although I will also be using a tactile sketchbook too!