10 weeks in to the first teaching block of the second year. Work in progress and future things to do...

1. Year 2 teaching block 1 - 10 weeks in...
The MA Fine Art story this year - Peter Missen 27/11/2012

2. Ceramics and Glass workshops
now our new MA Fine Art Space
 Poignant that we are back in the same space that
was such a hive of activity during the summer
 Still very pissed off that the
fabulous facilities that
formerly occupied our new
MA space were cast out by
the University authorities...

3. MA Fine Art end of year show
 My Roles
 Assisting Maggi with coordination
 CCi professional practice fund committee member
Location photos and map
 Treasurer
Community account is set up (£160 so far)
 Copy editor
 Team worker
 Been looking for locations as well...

4. Printing on Textiles Workshop
Really enjoyed this – a very interesting session
Looking forward to the printing on paper session

5. Further Reading undertaken
 Manwatching – Desmond Morris
 Fuzzy Thinking – Bart Kosko
 Chance – Margaret Iversen - Whitechapel Art Gallery
 Dada - art and anti-art – Hans Richter
 Kenneth Martin – Tate Gallery
 This is the Order – Issue 3
 Frank Stella – Robert Rosenblum
 Mondrian – Whitechapel Art Gallery
 Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynne Truss
 Lost for Words – John Humphrys

6. Further research
 Jeffery Steele
 House visits
 Interview
 Talks at Exhibitions
 The Rational Aesthetic
 Bridget Riley
 Paintings and Drawings 1951-71

7. Exhibitions
Exhibited 4 paintings at the Portsmouth
and Hampshire Art Society Annual show

8. Exhibition Ideas
 Solo Exhibition at the King's Theatre in January
 8 canvases all 30”x20”
 Working on an idea for a show in March
 Ken chose 4 works, completed over the
summer, for the Atkinson Exhibition

9. MA Fine Art Projects
 Meteorite
 1,000,000 pebbles collection
 Chance/Randomness
 Participation Project
 Life drawing

10. Meteorite project
 Planned Pop Up Art Project
 Meteorite crashed into the earth from another world
 1950s style
 At night time
 Multiple Portsmouth locations
 Photography at locations (Barry)
 Produce wall prints and book of photos
 Need smoke machine, Geiger counter, and lights...

11. Meteorite project
Sketch by Marc Beattie

12. Meteorite project
Sketch by Marc Beattie

13. Meteorite project
Components so far
 Top
 Base (+ new head)
 Inside base

14. 1,000,000 Pebbles Project
 Using Pete Codling's 1,000,000 Pebbles Project
 Collections/classifications
 Logic – pebble/not pebble
 Fuzzy logic – worn pebble

15. 1,000,000 Pebbles Project

16. Chance/Randomness
Citrus peel project – build up a pile of peel over
time. Keeps shrinking though!

17. This year's participation project
 Giving folks the same
 Canvas board
 Picture – scary samurai mask
 Task
 Use their own style
 Produce an art work
 Medium of choice

18. CCi Skills - Life drawing sessions

19. CCi Skills - Life drawing sessions

20. Interaction of color - Albers
Photographed the collection - a few examples...

21. Interaction of color - Albers
Photographed the collection - a few examples...

22. Interaction of color - Albers
Photographed the collection - a few examples...

23. More things to investigate
 Triptychs
 The number 3
 Haiku poems
 Ideas as objects

24. Photo-documenting local exhibitions
 Many Photographic Albums on Facebook
 Visits to Aspex, GASP, Library, Room 237
 Cave, Graduate Platform Award, John
Mynott, Rubble Office of Portsmouth
 Complicated relationships with Furniture
 Artworks, Beyond Dickens
 In Rust we Trust, Wasted Hours, We met them in
the Woods, The end is Coming, 100 years of Art,
MA Graphics exhibition

25. Documenting local exhibitions
In Rust we Trust - Room 237

26. Documenting local exhibitions
In Rust we Trust - Room 237

27. Documenting local exhibitions
The end is Coming - Room 237

28. Documenting local exhibitions
100 Years of Art - Room 237

29. Documenting local exhibitions
John Mynott solo exhibition - Aspex

30. Documenting local exhibitions
Graduate Platform Award - Aspex

31. Documenting local exhibitions
MA Graphics Design Exhibition - Room
237

32. That's all folks
Questions?