I thought the presentation really spoke to me as an artist. The man giving the presentation spoke my language, what I mean by that is sometimes when a person is feeding me buckets of information it tends to go over my head because of lack of understanding, but this presentation made it easier for me to understand because the man understand how an artist thinks.

The man giving the presentation was very calm and clearly very experienced. He would give the audience leaflets and will ask us to hand book around of examples of artists work that became successful.

He would give the audience advice on how to become successful like “Fight for what you believe in, even if that leads to arguing”. He was explaining that you must have a lot of passion for your work. Also “To be successful is communication”. He said that you need to have social skill and talk to people instead of avoiding them.

He would complain that my generation is basically too afraid, and I agree on that statement. He told the audience the reason why we now have machines to give orders in Mc Donald’s is because the young workers are too afraid to speak to the customers. And it’s not just in the work place he would complain that he never sees anyone expressing themselves in public in-case they will be judged harshly, like two lovers holding hands or even kissing in public.

This presentation really taught me a lot about success and my generation

This sculpture is made by Charles Gurrey. The sculpture is made of plaster and crystecal and the stand and letters are made of plastic. I noticed that the the artist invented a unique way to demonstrate text. All the letters are in capital letters and are placed on top of each other making it difficult to read what the text says. But I had discovered that the text is actually poetry. “How should we like it were stars to burn with passion for us we cannot return , if equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me”.

Neil Bottle “All that remains- thirty years in the making”

Neil Bottle uses mixed medias in his work. He uses textiles, digital effects and printing. In Ruthin there was a whole room dedicated to Neil Bottle’s work, even a room of his merchandise. They were very large collages with images of old family photo’s and family heirloom .

This is a photo of his grand mother holding his mother.

Winifred’s Legacy– This photo is precious to the artist because apparently this is the only photograph of his grandmother in this period of her life. She is either 14 or 15 in the picture.

Chasing birds away

Louise Tiplady– Stargazer

This is a sculpture of someone stargazing. the sculpture is made of Cornish soap stone which has been hand sculpted with letter. The text is poetry, ” Now that the night has passed and I watch the moon descend”.

Phill Surey– object of communication

All the letters of the alphabet. 26 sand stone table, hand carved