I am really happy that this happened. I can’t stop smiling about this. I’ve been a Cass art student ambassador since the 24th of July 2015.
I contacted Emily Lister who works at Cass Art and supports the Cass art student ambassadors (Student Programmes Coordinator) to ask if they could provide good amount of exposure on their twitter account. These are some of the emails between me, neil (store manager of cass art) and Emily about this.
Me:- Hello 🙂
Neil:-
Hello Christina,
I am glad you enjoyed the evening. I will pass on your information to our bloggers!!
Emily Lister:-
I hope you’re well and had a good time at the Islington store catch-up on Wednesday night, unfortunately I was unwell on the day so couldn’t make it.
Our Store Manager, Neil, passed on your email requesting a blog on your upcoming exhibition. The Cass Art blog is managed from our head office, which means I’m the best point of contact for you on this. The exhibition poster looks very exciting, however there isn’t too much time between now and the show, which might make it tricky for us to get a blog post out with enough time to promote the exhibition. What we could do however is upload a few posts on the Cass Art Twitter page, which is arguably the best way for us to quickly engage with a large audience, and should get your show a good amount of exposure 🙂
Me:-
Hi Emily 🙂 Hope you’re feeling better
The four of us are currently second year BA Fine Art students at Chelsea College of Arts. We are seeking a venue for an exhibition lasting several days between the 7th and 18th of March 2016. Our exhibition is titled ‘The Conscious Realm of the Unconscious’ and is based around our internal realities. The workings of the mind, focusing primarily on the dream world and of experiences of mental illness and epilepsy. The body of work which will make up the exhibition will be a combination of a collaborative piece, and our individual practices.
The collaborative piece will be a video piece, which will be presented either on a screen or a projector. The film explores this blank space of time that we all experience every day from waking consciousness to unconscious thought. What these experiences represent and symbolise to us personally within dreams, experience of mental illness, emotional states and epilepsy. Creating alter egos that explain each of these experiences visually using narrative structures, randomised intersecting footage, with documentary techniques.
Alisha’s work will be a small selection of emotionally charged graphite drawings, which aim to draw focus to her experience of mental illness, and re-purpose it for representation within the context of a dream or nightmare. The nature of this will sit within discomfort and satisfaction, which often exists within darker works. These drawings will create a dark fantasy world, which will take the human form as the centre, and create context by distorting nature, shadows, the body, and making references to myth, literature, and film in order to convey their message.
Christina’s work will examine epilepsy and the effect it has on her personal life, affecting both the conscious and unconscious states of mind. She intends to use a combination of collage, photography and performance containing words that symbolise her experiences of epilepsy. Covering herself in her own poetry by writing it onto fabrics that physically and visually describe the sensation of epileptic seizures.
Alex’s piece will be a ceramic sculpture based on the idea that her mind is capable of growing its own creations. The sculpture will be fitted into a plant pot, containing sculptures of skulls, bones, and nature themed pieces, such as body parts wrapped in ivy. She will also create smaller sculptures which focus on mismatching patterns, colours and shapes. Adding emphasis on things which do not fit together, adding sense of humour by using her own colour mixes, which she will name after the commercial names of the paints i.e. red being called sticky fingers and the blue being blue lagoon so a piece of work being named sticky lagoon.
Lisa’s work examines the blank space between conscious and unconscious thought, by exploring interpretations of dreams. Using this to immerse the viewer into a visionary experience, exploring the unstable nature of the unconscious dream world through psychoanalytical and scientific traits. She intends to use drawing as a base to explore what this blank space represents. Thinking of creating an installation, which consists of a bed with a video being projected onto a cast of her face. By immersing themselves within this space they will find themselves becoming part of the work, as surrounded by dream-like sounds, surreal objects, and lights which simulate the experience of dream worlds. There will be photographs which contain staged surreal experiences of other people’s dream experiences and how these have informed their reality. There is also the possibility of a maquette showing the interior of the mind as the interior of a dolls house.
From Christina
Hi Christina,
Thanks for sending this over- I’ll go through it properly next week and schedule some tweets for you J
Have a great weekend,
Emily
Emily Lister
Student Programmes Coordinator
By helping the group i’m part of for the offsite show unit 6, it has allowed me to learn more on how to give our show good exposure, expanding my networking skills and seeing what other opportunities are out there for us to promote our work.
This is one of the tweets that Cass Art did about our offsite show at Harts Lane Studios
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