Back To Work

Now that Articulation's exhibition in the Victoria College of Art is over, I am back to work on my dissertation for my BA(Hons) degree studies. The subject of my dissertation is a study of my mother's embroidered afternoon tea cloths as I seek to explain why women embroider flowers.
I have put images of the cloths up on a board so it is easy to constantly refer to them as I read, make notes and write the first draft.

A friend lent me this fabulous book that is proving to be an invaluable support for my argument.

I still have the last of my work to store away after it was hung in the exhibition.
Yesterday I took 2 works down to Polychrome, a gallery in Victoria that is mounting the Victoria College of Art faculty show. Unfortunately I will miss the opening because I will be on the east coast of Canada.

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I have started packing for that trip - my plane ticket and a juicy book to read.
The trip is this year's annual Articulation study session. We are exploring the Bay of Fundy. ReBecca has organised a jam packed itinerary for us. We are all very excited to be getting together again and to be beginning the research for new body of work. We already have some great plans for it.

Dissertation & Ladysmith Exhibition

This is what my dissertation looked like last week - all of my notes, scribbles and jotting down of ideas organised according to the dissertation outline, in my trusty Pendaflex. Since last week i have been writing a chapter a day, planning to get the first draft complete by next week.

This dissertation is to be fully illustrated so i have been putting a lot of thought into the whole look of these illustrations and how i will make them.
I have been looking closely at the flowers on the afternoon tea cloths i am writing about. I went out to the garden to get images of the flowers that are on the tea cloths.

After picking some samples i pressed a few of the flatter ones and covered the rest in silica gel to dry them out.

I have spent the past 2 days in Ladysmith where I have been involved in hanging the first exhibition of work by the newly formed Vancouver Island sub-chapter of the Vancouver Surface Design Association. I was so busy with getting the work up and looking good, i forgot to take photographs - both days!
I'll do better at the opening on the 7th August - 5 to 8 pm if any of you can come.