Fully Awake

Abstract

Fully Awake was a group show, and part of a series of exhibitions organised by Teaching Painting on the subject of British art school education. The exhibition took place at Blip Blip Blip in Leeds. The project involved each invited artist making a selection of one artist who had at some point taught them, and another who had been their student. To this end, I selected works by Carol Rhodes and Georgia Horgan. Rhodes was represented by a drawing, 'Quarry' (2000), while Horgan displayed a recently completed film 'All Whores are Jacobites' (2017). The exhibition was accompanied by a catalogue, and featured a short text written by myself. This text questioned the methods through which the success of a pedagogic approach could be ascertained, and the appropriateness of using stylistic traits as a means of determining a meaningful relationship between teaching staff and their students. It reflected upon the value of maintaining a practice visibly outside an art school framework, and the important effect this has on students themselves looking to establish an autonomous practice upon the completion of their time in higher education