We made it to the Minotaur and back! Thank you Nadja for your recipe for those delicious crisp breads.
Thank you Nadja and Rachael for the collaboration. Thank you Nova and Aine at Crate. Oh dear, this sounds a bit like the Oscars but really I want to say it! It was a lot of work but really worth while.
Now it is time to take stock and to relax a bit. I think that it is fair to say that we were all happy with how it turned out. We had a good crowd at the Private View and a healthy mix of people. Friends, acquaintances and new faces. There had been a meeting at Limbo, and members of Crate and Limbo came to our exhibition afterwards. So there was a real buzz. Nadja remarked that there were rather a lot of men with beards at one point! The atmosphere was brilliant. I think that we received a great compliment when one of the artists thought that we were third year students by looking at all our work. He was quite taken back when I said no we were second year students, and he should come to see our degree show next year! Personally I was particularly happy with peoples comments about the different pieces in the installation relating well. That there was an obvious link to my video work and painting. The word poetic and narrative came up and that was a good response for me. People said that we had successfully made both of our very different works make sense in our space together (mine and Rachel's), and that all three of our work worked well together. That has been our big challenge. We had given a lot of thought to the lighting and the selection of works, but it is always good to hear that it has worked from the outsiders point of view. So all the feed back was positive and we feel motivated to pass onto the next step, and push our work further. For the immediate future I have quiet a bit of preparation to do for our assessment on Monday.
There were some lovely moments and I leave it to Rachael and Nadja to share those with you. Rachael was our photographer for the show. I did most of the filming although we all had a go with the movie camera so we are all in it! Once edited I might put it on youtube.
And here are four taster pictures of our setting up.
Our photographer Rachael
Painting selected
Checking the lighting with Rachael's paintings to the right
Nadja experimenting with arranging the boxes
-3 ufs (3 eggs)
-150g de farine (flour)
-1 sachet de levure (baking powder)
-10 cl d'huile de tournesol (sunflour oil)
-12.5 cl de lait entier (whole milk)
-100 g de gruyère râpé (grated gruyere...or just cheese!)
-200 g de jambon de Paris (ham)
-75 g d'olives vertes (green oiliness)
-1 pincée de sel (salt)
-2 pincées de poivre (pepper)
Préchauffez votre four à 180C (th 6) (heat the oven)
Découpez le jambon et les olives en morceaux.(cut thé ham and olives up)
Dans un saladier, travaillez bien au fouet les ufs, la farine, la levure, le sel et le poivre. (wisk the eggs, flour, baking powder, salt and pepper together)
Incorporez petit à petit l'huile et le lait chaud. Ajoutez le gruyère râpé. Mélangez. (mix in a little oil and warm milk. Then add the cheese and mix)
Incorporez le jambon et les olives à la pâte. (add the ham and the olives)
Versez le tout dans un moule non graissé et faites cuire au four pendant 45 min. (put it into a baking tin and cook for 45 mins)
Nadja you can have fun with your French!
By the way, Rachael's biscuits were yummy!
A more conclusive summery of the setting up of the exhibition and assessment of the experience will have to wait. Just feeling a little exhausted at the moment.
Have a great evening.
Jennie
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