Week Eighteen – Relax! When you wanna curate..

Above image: Maybe I should chill out and read my paper on the beach like this lady from the Nova Scotia Archives. (Photo by George Walker MacKay, no date.) Available at https://www.flickr.com/photos/nsarchives/6189108165/ Work and Internships This week has been consumed by hours of reading related to my next module of coursework. I’ve also written the second...

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Week Seventeen – Does my bum look big in this? On giving honest feedback.

Image above: by Helen Dryden, 2019. What I have learned over the last week has not been directly linked to my course work, but is important to my learning, nonetheless. I have found that when you are asked for an opinion, people might not actually mean that they want your full and frank assessment. We...

Week sixteen – Kaiser Chiefs at York Art Gallery, and Gift Aid worries.

Kaiser Chiefs at York Art Gallery Last weekend I took my family to York Art Gallery to see All is Quiet: The Kaiser Chiefs in Conversation with York Art Gallery. Though not a huge fan of the band, I thought the premise of the exhibition sounded interesting. It had been highlighted to our class by...

Week Fifteen – let’s all think together

In week fifteen of my Curation Practices MA at Leeds Arts University, I carried out my 'instance of curatorial practice' (aka The Fridge Game), got my results and feedback for the first module's work that I handed in before Christmas, and was inspired by practising 'free writing'. I began the first draft of my first...

Week 14 – hygienic ghosts, and digital archive concerns

In week 14 I visited Bolling Hall in Bradford with the art group Sketch That, prepared to play the Fridge Game with some volunteers, and thought about my obsession with archives and journals. Spooky sketching at Bolling Hall On Sunday 13th January Sketch That visited Bolling Hall in Bradford. We took our sketchbooks and explored...

Week Thirteen part 2 – touching cloth and the fridge game

In week 13 of my MA Curation Practices, we visited the Marks and Spencer Company Archive, had a lecture from Tate Liverpool's Dr. Deborah Riding, and I continued developing my curatorial card game. M&S Archive The Marks and Spencer Company Archive is in a specially built building in the University of Leeds, and comprises an...

Week Thirteen part 1 – the problem with blogging

Header image: The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. As my husband said "You can tell it's an art gallery as it says 'BIG ART' in the window". ;)This is my third attempt today to write a blog post about my experiences and thoughts over the last 2 weeks, and I've realised that I have so much...

Week Twelve – this is the end, my friend.

The end of the Petri Dish, my first module and 2018. It's week 12 of my MA and the coursework for my first module has been handed in for assessment. It's the end of term and also the end of the Petri Dish exhibition, and so yesterday we gathered at the Rotunda Gallery to take...

Thoughts on Yorkshire Sculpture Park

My study placements were a few weeks ago, and I have been writing up what I saw and learned whilst on site and also reading around the subjects raised in academic texts, reflecting on what it all means for my practice and curation generally. There is so much to discuss, but as my 'Audit of...