Alumni crit

I was invited back to Camberwell College of arts today for an alumni crit with the 3rd year Drawing students, which was a great experience, however I couldn't help but notice that my comments were somewhat different from the other alumnus.

I was previously aware that the way I view artwork has changed slightly, there is a different dynamic added when I consider art. The person seems to have a higher value in my view.

Camberwell college of arts

      When critiquing the third year’s work I felt curious about how they were feeling at the time of making for instance. 

      For example one student made a video piece where she used a bike, a fan and a bucket. This immediately made me wonder about the bike… was it the students old bike? Who did it belong to? Why was it in use? Etc. 

I related a lot of the pieces back to the personal rather the concept of the work, which is the usual direction. This forced them to ask certain questions about their practice that they perhaps had not before but I was very aware that my questions and thoughts were very art therapy-esq. I don’t know how I feel about this? I found myself wondering how the students felt when making certain laborious looking pieces, looking less at the art in itself but more at the process of making for that individual.

Crit’s are very different in nature to the studio discussion I’ve experienced at this University… I’m not sure if I prefer either experience but it was certainly refreshing to talk about my personal art process without having to defend certain decision making.