Evolving my idea

More thoughts from today's bike ride - 25 miles on New Year's Day - a good start to the New Year.

I was thinking about whether Wightwick Manor would work with a student, to create an exhibition at their location - would they take a punt on working with a minimally experienced student? I'm not at all sure about this.  But the more I think about it, the more I think this might be an idea with legs.  And if Wightwick Manor did not want to run with it, maybe I could run it as an exhibition at Coventry University.  In their publicity material, Coventry states it will use its contacts to assist with venues for exhibition of student work.  I am assuming an exhibition of artists' work could be part of a submission for a Masters.

Vanda and I had a discussion about what one's practice is, a few months ago.  Vanda had spent a lot of time thinking about her practice, and had concluded she did not want make work for sale (then it needs to be commercially viable, and usually uncontroversial), nor to exhibit her work in solo shows, or self-organised group shows.  For her, a large part of the validation of her work, was for it to be exhibited in shows where work was selected by independent organisers.  I agree with this.  My work is an expression of my thought - which is positioned to how far I have thought, at the stage at which I make it.  Then if it fits an exhibitor's agenda, all well and good.  If it is good enough, it will be selected .... if it's not, it won't!

A call for entries for artwork about Valuing Women would draw in many different people's perspective on what individuals in British contemporary society think women should be valued for.  So if such an exhibition could be organised, in a timely manner for the end of my Masters, it would create a body of work that might be worth analysis subsequent to the finishing of my current studies!  It might provide a database of contemporary artists' interpretation of Values about women.  And if the artists were from diverse backgrounds (ie age, orientation, ethnicity etc) it would address my concerns about my personal framing impacting significantly on the values that are identified.