Shaun Project Space Crit

This week I was on the list of students to show their work in the Shaun Project Space and receive feedback. As a group we attended the crit within the Shaun Space but I invited people down to my studio to see my work as in the morning when I attempted to move it upstairs I broke one of my plaster sculptures so we decided for the best we would do it in my own "Shaun" space (my area within the sculpture studio). Unfortunately, I could not take any pictures of other peoples work as they had already taken it down so I will mostly talk about the feedback I was given and how my work was received.

The crit in my studio space was mostly positive, my fellow peers could tell that I had spent a while organising and presenting my artwork within my space, they asked if I had done it intentionally which I had, so I was glad they picked up on the presentation. They were intrigued to see what I had been up to as not many students come down to visit, so I had to explain a little bit about my processes and what my project was about, which I felt I explained pretty well. I explained to them I was testing out the relationship between natural and man made materials to see what quality or effect they had with each other.

After people had a closer look at my artwork, my precision and order was discussed, they liked that everything had a specific place and that I had rules which I had to abide by. However, they preferred my sculptures with mistakes and mishaps, they especially liked my Wood and Resin sculpture which accidently broke a few times, they mentioned that the impurity/destruction/unpredictability added a greater quality to the artwork, that it made it more interesting and it was something that was out of my control and that I couldn't replicated, that it broke "in a natural way" as it followed one of the lines in the grain of wood.

At this point in the group crit, I was asked which piece I thought was my strongest and obviously I said the "perfect", not broken artworks yet the group disagreed and stuck with there guns and said the impure ones were their favourites.

It was a very interesting crit, I took a lot away from it actually, my entire idea of having things perfect were 'Smashed', so from that point on I wasn't that bothered or annoyed with myself if things didn't go 100% to plan.