Hey it’s me again kristine today is my second day and we took pictures of the project at the lighthouse which was cool and I think later I’m going to be helping out with the sugar cubes? Activity not sure what it is, it’s pouring down with rain right now, but it’s fine with me because I’m inside hehe
Hey I’m Erin and I started work experience today at Aspex gallery.
I arrived at gunwharf at around ten o’clock (after some minor train hiccups- I think I’ll get the bus tomorrow) and went to the gallery, when I arrived I was shown around by the lovely Wendy. We then went upstairs to the staff room where Kristine- the other work experience girl painstakingly filled out an order form on the iPad only to have it deleted. Gutting! I think I’ll have a go at thattomorrow, save her doing it twice!
thankyou for letting me have the chance to do my work experience here, looking foward to the rest of the week :3
Teachers at the Arundel Court Schools took part in a Professional Development session, led by Wendy Middleditch and Amy Lloyd. We discussed how art and drawing is taught in school, how sometimes teachers and pupils decide they can’t draw, and what makes a good drawing. Then the teachers took part in a variety of timed, fun and challenging drawing activities, designed to relax and liberate their drawing skills.
The next planned session will be on Painting Techniques.
If you want to find out more about how we can work with teachers or schools, please contact Amy Lloyd at : amy@aspex.org.uk
Hey! It Kristine
I arrived here an hour ago, not sure, anyway Clive and Wendy showed me around the gallery and I actually found it fascinating because they have a room filled with 100 desks and each of them has a speaker and artist would be talking all at the same time, sometimes the sounds go really quiet and then it goes really loud, it can startle you aswell but right now I’m just doodling whilst Wendy ‘s making a list of art materials to order online later 🙂 xxxxxx
It is my Last Day, and I feel sad that I am leaving everyone and going back to school, but I am kind of pleased as this Work Experience have shown me what life is like in the ‘Real, Working’ world, and I don’t think I’m up for that yet! I think I might do some volunteering for Aspex during my college years and help with workshops…
Anyway, today I helped Clive take down the exhibition in gallery 2, which meant I had to peel the letters off the wall, but I couldn’t do all of it as it went quite high up and I’m not that tall (I’m 5ft :/), then I went over to the Lighthouse and helped Amy clear out and tidy the Lighthouse, it was getting quite messy in there I have to say… but then it has been a busy last two weeks!
I have really enjoyed the fortnight with Aspex, learnt some new skills, and worked with a variety of ages and cultures. It has been a pleasure and I think I was quite lucky to get a placement here, I feel as this is my second home. The staffs have been wonderful and the public really knows that this is a unique and wonderful charity. I will miss everyone, and you readers, as this is my last post I will ever make:( it is quite hard to express my feelings and thoughts into this post, but nevertheless it is better than nothing 🙂
I want to thank all at Aspex for this work experience, your help is much appreciated.I hope you found my blog interesting as I have, and if any of you consider coming here for your work experience, I strongly recommend you to do so. Until then, it’s adios from me
“Sometimes you have to let go of the one you love to find out if there is really something there. Every goodbye makes the next hello closer.”
Isobel Johnson aged 15 years.
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On Thursday, at 12:30pm, we had 70 children from Manor’s for the workshop –70! They all had great fun, and Lou and Josh decided to join in with them and do the activity, I distinctly remember him saying
“This what I love about this job, you get to do what they’re doing!”
By 2:30 the children had got their coach and went home, and we tided up after them, I do not know why, but they had managed to glue tissues paper onto the floor so I had to spend most of the afternoon peeling it off! I had my lunch break in the staffroom, after going to Tesco’s and getting myself a bag of Randoms :3 (I did have a banana and a sandwich too) Because, after lunch, there wasn’t anything much left for me to do, I could go home early!
Today, I worked with Lou and Josh, to come up with activities for Manor Infants School’s reception classes. We had to do something that related to the exhibition “A Hundred Seas Rising” and a Pirate theme, which they were doing at school. Eventually, after many hours of searching Google and using sites, such as “CraftGawker” and “Pininterest”, I came up with an activity for the children to do. I then had my lunch break at half 1 and when I came back I made some prototypes of the activity to show the children for tomorrow. By 3pm, I helped to set up the Lighthouse for the “Sugarcubes” After- School Art Club, getting the drinks, sorting out the tables ect. However, I couldn’t stay for “Sugarcubes” as I had to leave early as my younger sister was playing in her School’s Concert so I had to go home and get ready in time for the performance.
I am writing this all up, and I did a bit of my art homework, which I have forgotten to do last week (Sorry!) Which reminds me I must do my English essay… but I can do that on the weekend, it’s only 350 words, after all I did spend an entire Sunday afternoon writing a 1000 word essay! But the book I’m studying links to a Hundred Seas Rising as we’re doing a novel by Charles Dickens who also wrote a Tale of Two Cities which was Suki Chan’s inspiration for her Project. So I wonder if “Great Expectations” will inspire me to create a world-class artwork too…
Watch this space!
In the words of Charles Dickens, the weather conditions at the moment is
“Stormy and wet, stormy and wet; mud, mud, mud, deep in all the streets. Day after day, a vast heavy veil had been driving over London from the east, and it drove still, as if in the east there were an eternity of cloud and wind.”
If this is not coincidence, what is?
********Just came back from my lunch break, I went out and had lunch with my Mum, Ellie and her mum, at Frankie’s and Benny’s. It was really delicious, unfortunately the weather is still “wet; mud, mud, mud, deep in the streets”, so I got a tad wet going across Gunwharf. Earlier on, I did some photocopying for Wendy; I had to photocopy all the pages of all the Arts Award Booklets (Bronze, Sliver and Gold) enlarging them from A3 to A4, which proved to be tricky and we had a paper jam. Then Wendy showed me how to scan it so that it will print the sheets onto two sides on one A4 sheet. This was easier to do and I printed 5 booklets per level (5 for Bronze, 5 for Sliver and so on) and stapled them together. Halfway between the jobs the paper ran out and I went to get some more to fill it up again. Then I finished the task I was set just before one, just in time for lunch!
This now leaves me to this current moment…
VIVA LA REVOLUTION!
Today Aspex Gallery was closed due to staff training, but I was excused from that, instead we had a private school workshop from 10:30 to 2:30 with Mayville High School and they were given a talk from the Artist: Suki Chan. She was a lovely lady and she gave an insightful talk to them, that I saw the children enjoyed. And then they created their own revolution through posters, artworks, booklets, flags, and vibrant Manifesto. There were quite a few highlighted issues among the students, which included Racial Discrimination and the effect of Humans on the Environment, which I thought was very important revolution to make about. Then each group voted, who presented the best manifesto, and a group won with 15 votes! All in all we had a great day, and I was allowed to leave work early at 2:35pm.
I got a lift to Aspex today, and I met Amy in the staffroom and we got the conference packs and carried them down to the New Theatre Royal (where the conference is being hosted). We got there around about 11:30 and Amy had sort about some ticket problems at the Box Office (as Aspex have given away some) and the Box Office wasn’t sure how many would be attending the conference, so that took a bit of our time. After sorting out the minor malfunction we headed upstairs and went to the Café and had a chat with Annis Joslin about the DVD she brought with her for her talk about “What next for culture in Portsmouth?” We then decided to meet the technicians and run a test drive of the DVD Annis’ has created. We went down to the stage and saw them busy setting up the projectors and microphones for the event, we gave them the Mac Book and the DVD. And we went from there sorting out the sound quality, the light quality and the size of the film. Along with the help of Gareth (who turned up just as we went down to speak to the technicians) the film was ready to roll for the talk. By then it was 1:00 and we started to let the Public come in, giving out the conference packs (which myself and Letty put together the day before) and being seated. At 1:30 the clipboards came out and the public was poised with their biro’s ready to scribble down anything revolutionary in the talk, the light dimmed and Deborah Owen Ellis Clark, Chair of Aspex Visual Arts Trust, took centre stage… (At this moment in time I thought to myself “All the world a stage…”) Don’t ask me why, but it seemed appropriate, seeing that this conference was about “What’s next for Culture in Portsmouth?”
Yes indeed, what’s next?
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