'Where Art Meets Science' ~ Exhibition Event

I can't believe how quickly today has gone!

Today I attended my first exhibition event for the 'Where Art Meets Science' competition I entered last month. I went along with my dad we were both given finalist & guest badges and directed to a room upstairs for photographs of finalists with their work. After that we went into a conference room which was a sea of which round tables, coffee cups and ornamental glass center piece. Just being there made me excited for the event ahead. Me and my dad got a coffee before we sat at a table with the only other finalist from my uni - she was lovely and just genuinely happy to be there and share her work with other like minded people, which is why I was all the more happier to see her go onto be one of the top 3 winners!

I didn't win anything myself but I was just so pleased to have made it to the finals I was just as happy as the winners themselves when we were walking around viewing all the entries, chatting and eating canapés - I could get used to this! haha ;)

I really enjoyed the whole event and everyone came away with a specially designed certificate which had and image of your work as well as a congratulatory message about being a finalist, which will definitely be going on my CV!! And being the only first year finalist amongst all the 3rd years made me all the more determined to keep challenging myself with these competitions!

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Well... I was on a roll

After initially filming my woodland based project deadlines soon caught up with me and before I knew it I only had a few days to before we broke up from college so my film had to be put on hold, for now ;)

A still from my unit. 3 surveillance film

Surprisingly I managed to return to/ develop/ and finish an earlier film I'd made for my earlier unit of work! It was a surveillance film I'd done based in the art department one open evening and I can't wait to see the reaction others will have when they see it in the final show. As the deadline looms nearer and nearer it's like a part of me has finally kicked in and I've really made some progress with my final unit of work. (Better late than never!) And have nearly brought my unit 4 sketchbook to a conclusion minus an evaluation, and a few final piece sketches I'm nearly done there. But I must, must, MUST return to my unit 3 sketchbook to bring that to a close and create that final piece!!

This is just one of the many gum arabic experimentations I recently did

... I think I must love the pressure of deadlines, cos I sure havne't learnt from last year's late night sessions. But it's like my art teacher says I'm on another 'Jadene mission' i.e. staying back in art during frees and well after college producing some good prep work that should have taken weeks over a days!

I'm looking forward to the art exhibition, and I can't believe it's just over 2 weeks away!! It only sunk in yesterday when we painted our walls and my friend Hannah and I made the mistake of buying white matt emulsion instead of BRILLIANT white emulsion... and boy does it make a difference on the wall.

 

Here we are after we painted the wall! haha

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