This group formed and ran over the past few years and has continued as some have graduated for the others at the final stages of their careers. It is both highly critical and supportive, and has been invaluable to all involved. We also support each other by email outside of the monthly hangouts.

25.1.24

This was my first student led peer hangout since starting SYP this month.

• We shared our updates.
• Some have had images accepted for a competition. Neil has had agreement to sea walls as a venue for his BOW as well as the OCA diversity calendar.
• Miriam Jonathan and myself discussed applying for group funding for a group source  exhibition (AOP Graduate show). Miriam has offered to coordinate.

Those of us that have just received our assessment feedback shared.

• Lynda and Sue were pleased with their results though I was interested to hear Lynda say she was told her work/blog is too detailed- it gave me heart!
• Gerald gave detailed feedback about his SYP submission. I noted that he did well tough his work was not finished; he suggested that was as it showed good progression and was work that creates discourse.
• I noted that Sue devised a questionnaire to send out for assignment 3 for secondary research, using bullet points for ease.
•  Sue reminded us that we must speak to an audience that doesn’t know anything about the work.

Sue & Lynda suggested:

• when pitching get your points across briefly – think in bullet points- you need to grab their attention in 3 minutes.
• Use padlet’s to show progression
• They did their evaluation as books? For assignment 5
• For LOs document actual problems.

We discussed useful publications and organisations to apply to for open calls and portfolio reviews:

• Subart magazine
• Shutterhub- Karen Harvey recommended as a reviewer. If you join you get 1 free portfolio review a year.
• Picter.com – join http://submit.picter.com . Set up an account to give details of calls, and after entering a competition it holds your details including images, making it easier to submit to multiple competions.
• Lens scratch: open calls are free with a donation. They have a section of resources on open calls.
• I clarified that dpi which is asked for is the dsame as pixels per inches. This I can set as a perameter in photoshop.

I asked for advice on building a website for my work, platforms suggested were:

• Portfolio.box.net as inexpensive
• Adobe portfolio is free if you have an adobe subscription with the creative cloud

General advice:

• Advertise your good news via Instagram
• Images at galleries are referenced with, medium, paper, size of object plus title date artsi name.

Actions:

• Join picter.com
• Checkout Glasgow Gallery photography
• Checkout David Wyatt and Ariadne Tutor sessions online þ
• Checkout ‘Free range’ graduate shows
• Checkout the NEW York portfolio review (14^th April -remote). þ Deadline was 31^st Jan which was too tight for me.
• Athens open call deadline 5^th Feb too tight.

I need to get myself quickly into position where I can apply for open calls and portfolio reviews.