Evaluation

I don’t feel like PP really came to have much bearing on my practice this year, it didn’t seem to delve that deeply into the specifics of where my practice is likely to sit in the future, although it did help to give me some idea of what I need to start thinking about.

I had never really given much consideration to the full scope of what my financial needs are likely to be, and despite my future living situation being unlikely to correlate to the current one I used for Study Task 5, I still found it to be a useful exercise. At least, in getting me into the habit of thinking about these kinds of things and also beginning to evaluate which parts of my practice are likely to be the most financially viable and how I might have to balance them with more personal work and a part time job.

The group project, Studio Brief 3, was overall an enjoyable experience, although community art projects are not something which I really think are likely to become part of my practice in the future. It’s a really satisfying experience to see the growth of an idea result from discussion between several individuals but once we were over the initial excitement, because we all got on very well and were mainly good friends, a lot of the pressure was let off and we ran out of steam a little bit. We were as little distracted as a result and failed to pay enough detailed attention to some of the more practical sides of the project we were proposing, namely budgeting and the financial side. I think I would have been much more interested to work collaboratively with a graphic designer or an animator (or even a writer or anyone who sits within a different creative discipline) as this would have been more relevant to potential future collaborations I would be interested in embarking upon.

I left the contact report until quite last minute and regret doing that because after seeing how easy it was to strike up communication with other practitioners/ professionals, I realised that I could have contacted a lot of people and probably got much more use out of it. As it stands my email correspondence with Molly Fairhurst was interesting and I definitely got some useful ideas from it but nothing which I think will drastically alter the way I think about my work and future practice.