Stuart Haygarth - again

I went to see the Van Gogh and his letters at the RA on Saturday and took the opportunity to have another look at the Stuart Haygarth exhibition. It finishes on 30 January 2010.

Stuart Haygarth: Found, Haunch of Venison, London

Roger Hiorns - Turner Prize 2009 - Link to Video

Roger Hiorns - Turner Prize 2009

Lucy Skaer - Turner Prize 2009 - Link to Video

Lucy Skaer - Turner Prize 2009

Enrico David - Turner Prize 2009 - Link to Video

Enrico David - Turner Prize 2009

Richard Wright - Turner Prize 2009 - Link to Video

Richard Wright - Turner Prize 2009

Mat Collishaw - Hysteria

The artist Mat Collishaw talking about his exhibition Hysteria at the Freud Museum, London.

My First Term - A retrospective

I am now a third of the way through my residency and apparently the longest of the terms. The first term was definitely one of finding my way around and settling in to the school environment. So now that first term of 2009/10 has finished and just before next begins - as a review - here are some of the things I have achieved so far in the residency:-

• set up my studio area
• set up and ran the new lunchtime art video club for year 8 and 9 boys (covered stop-frame animation, live action with special effects editing with final cut express, story boarding, developing ideas, Pixar/Disney animation, Klutz video, William Kentridge, Julian Opie)
• helped set up the GCSE art show in the atrium gallery
• attended school trips to Tate Modern, National Portrait Gallery and Tate Britain
• assisted in the teaching of Year 8, Year 10, Year 11 and Year 12 and been available for ad hoc tutorials
• regular 'art work of the month' updates on school website
• embraced web2.0 as a learning platform (ie this blog)
• created my own website for my professional practice
• continued with the research and refinement of the thinking of my own practice

This is what I will be focusing on in 2010:-

• setting up and running the lunchtime art video club for the year 8 and 9 girls
• creating more of a balance in my school duties versus my own practice to enable the production of more art
• creating a body of work using the 'back end' research from the first term
• participating in two already confirmed exhibitions
• entering more exhibitions and competitions
• securing gallery representation

Identity 8 Rooms 9 Lives, Wellcome Collection

A popular subject addressed by Wellcome Collection's latest exhibition on until 6 April 2010. 

See also the review by Time Out

2009 and the Noughties - a retrospective

Links:

• The art of 2009 and the Noughties decade in review by ARTINFO
• Best Art Exhibitions of the year 2009 by Time Out
• The best art of the decade by Waldemar Januszczuk, The Times