Llantrisant Limeworks…..
29 Tuesday May 2012
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Tomorrow is my last day of second year university, the day where I hand in my blog to my tutors. I am actually really proud of what I have achieved this year, even though there has been major lows with studying at UWIC. I think I have made great progress with my digital art and am really looking forward to having time off to spend on my artwork.
I even have been asked to do an exhibition in June with a few other artists which I am absolutely honored to be doing. I am excited to actually crack on with my own art that hasn’t got anything to do with university.
I am also proud with my latest project, how it went and how it turned out. Although I wish that I went with what I originally thought of and I think the outcome would have been more dramatic. I have also decided to take a year out of university to gather myself and to concentrate on my own work. I feel that if I was to carry on with the third year I wouldn’t get the degree I feel I deserve. I have learnt a lot by studying at this uni however I feel it is time for me to either go elsewhere or travel or to just create my own art that isn’t constantly being criticized.
Thank you UIWC it has been emotional.
21 Monday May 2012
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art, earth, photography, photoshop., planet, project, projects., textiles, Uni, university, world
21 Monday May 2012
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art, bright, photography, photoshop., rust, textiles, urban exploring
21 Monday May 2012
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complaints., crap course, second year uni, student, textiles, tutors, uwic
With the end of the second year quickly approaching I am beginning to think about taking a year out of university. I feel that I have not learnt as much as I should have and am feeling quite down about the situation. I feel that if i was to carry on with this course I definitely wouldn’t get a good degree. I feel that I would pass however I wouldn’t get a top grade. After the drama with my tutor I have thought about the different opportunities available for me now. I have also been thinking about applying to Glamorgan University as I think it is a much better uni.
I am still really shocked by the way Pip treated me and honestly can not wait to get out of that course and hopefully start a new one in a year or so. The funny thing is even though I made a complaint about my tutor she still doesn’t seem to give two fucks about her teaching ability of her students.
I have one week left till my deadline so my plan is to finish everything, pass the second year and maybe take a year out, but I will definitely be finding a new course. Note to anyone wanting to study the textile course at UWIC………….don’t bother.
14 Monday May 2012
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digital, flowers, merged, photography, photoshop., prints, selling prints.
I took some time out of my current uni project to create something that was not related to uni. I wanted to create a range of digital prints that were merged in Photoshop. I took a load of flower photographs last year and I hadn’t done anything with them. So I sat down and decided to make them into prints.
I should really be focusing on my uni project but I am so uninspired with the comments and feedback I had from my tutor I literally thought “fuck it” I am going to do something else. Hope you like them…..
I am thinking about setting up my own website and selling these prints. I really like playing around with the colours and contrast.
07 Monday May 2012
07 Monday May 2012
07 Monday May 2012
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inSo I had a tutorial with my tutor Phillipa Lawrence on Friday, what happened was such a shock and has made me very upset. I have been doing a project on anti consumerism and have been feeling really confident with my final outcome. However last Friday I arranged to see Pip to give me feed back on my project. She came over to see my work which was displayed on the walls by my desk. She then went on to say how my work was vulgar and explained how nobody would understand what my work was about. She also refused to mark my project as she doesn’t want anything to do with it. I was absolutely horrified by her ignorant reaction. I am paying nearly £4000 to learn and study at this university and yet this is what my tutor acts like. She acted very unprofessionally and has made me question my time at the university.
I am going to make a formal complaint as this is not what I expected and find it shocking that someone can act in that manner. I no longer want to carry on with this university, as of tomorrow I will be contacting Glamorgan uni to see if I can change and hopefully get a better degree.
I am devastated that I have taken two years out of my life to study at this university just to be treated this way. What an absolute joke!
03 Thursday May 2012
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I went to the Wellcome Collection in London and visited the brain exhibition. I found that it didn’t relate to my current project but I was inspired to take on a different project over the summer. The project will be about mental illness and brain tumors. I got inspired my a photo I saw that was of a fashion photographer who had been diagnosed with a brain tumor. She then turned the camera on herself and began a photographic diary of her and her illness. This was something that grabbed me and I really wanted to know more.
I really enjoyed this exhibition but found that I didn’t have enough time to take it all in. I would love to go back and spend a few hours there making drawings of the brains as we weren’t allowed to take pictures. Upstairs was the Medicine Man exhibition which consisted of weird and wonderful things. Oil paintings of women giving birth and baby demons running about the place. This is definitely a must see for people interested in things a little bit weird.