Degree show over.. Hello new designers

As well as uni now being over the degree how is to, I'm quickly realising student life is over! After the mayhem of assessments I never thought I would say this but, I actually can not wait to get back into making.

So plaster slabs, slips, old test pieces etc etc.... Etc ate now filling my car into I move into my studio space at AWOL at ancoats. So come end of new designers I can crack my lovely new kiln out and get a making!!

Degree show... cont.

Still can not believe that the show is on, it is such a surreal experience. Please see link below for my profile page on the degree show website. All images have now been upload but may take a day to show online.

http://degreeshow.mmu.ac.uk/2012/CherylEwing/

Very much looking forward to the VIP event tomorrow evening, going to take this opportunity to grab some images of other great work that is on show. Finally got to take a look around textiles and illustration today... some fab work !!!

cheryl.ewing@hotmail.co.uk 

Email

I am currently having some problems with my new email that links to my website.
Any enquiries from degree show or new designers can be made through the following.

cheryl.ewing@hotmail.co.uk

Exciting day ahead at Quay house :D

Networking

So plans for this week. Before all the excitement of new designers I very much need to get the website on the go, this is underway so keep tuned :D

Picture of wall pieces at degree show at quay house. Make sure you come and view before Wednesday or catch us at new designers!!

Degree show

Ahhhh all the mayhem of three years is now ending. Can not belive it was private viewing last night. Pictures will soon follow but for now please check out our online portolfios at
http://degreeshow.mmu.ac.uk/

or email at
cheryl.ewing@hotmail.co.uk

Whitby and Scarborough

It wasnt just for a day out, I genuinly felt the need for some insperation!

I defienlty want to look at the idea of memory and collecting for my extended essay, got lots of books out library but wanted to try and figure out why this intrests me so much. 

When I was younger I would visit whitby and Scarborough every year with my family. I havent been in about 15 years so I was very eager to go back!

I felt myself getting quite emotional, desperatly trying to find the same yellow binocular as seen in the photo below; they had all been removed unfortunalty. I wanted to find that same piece of wall to sit on, and think I have been here before in this very spot, i'm not sure why, maybe to feel some sort of closness to this photographic memory.

I think it is important to call it a photographic memory; I can not actually remember this photograph being taken, however it sparks off other memories of the same trip. One of the books I have been reading, Memoranda: edited by Tessa Peters and Janice west, highlights how memories are more often than not about or involve another indivudual. It intrests me so much how one mundane object can help recall the same stories to several people. I am thinking that it maybe an interesting idea to draw, photographs some images of everyday objects and ask a group of people to write down an individual memory that comes from looking at the images( if anything does come to mind that is).

 When walking up the 199 steps to Whitby Abby, I wasnt sure what I would get out of it once I reached the top. I was hit with a sombering thought when I looked at the old grave stones, dotted about the cliff edge.

So many of the stones are completly unreadable with weather damage. There is a stone in place, to act as a memorial but to who? We can not tell now who has been forgotten.

 I am not sure if I could maybe use this idea as a narrative for my Practice 5 project, will need to do some thinking, reading, drawing and of course making to help me establish this.

I think that it is quite intresting being in Whitby and feeling all of these emotions towards the idea of memory, when of course it is the home of jet, so famously used in Victorian mournig jewellery, This is another path of enquiry to undertake.

Ohh and how could I forget to mention the delicious scampi, chips and mushy peas I had! Might need to go back for some more research........................

GNCCF

http://www.greatnorthernevents.co.uk/

On Thursday I was fortunate enough to be able to do a few hours volunteering work at the GNCCF office. It was a great opportunity, not only to lend a hand but get some feedback about my own work, then it was off out delivering leaflets around Didsbury in the the sun.....why did I wear a cardigan and scarf ?!?!?! Now just looking forward to getting to help out at event, where hopefully I can charm up some makers who will let me get some work experience in their studios!