Good evening all,
Today I received a letter from the Slade informing me I have been chosen to receive the Thomas Scholarship. The award is £5000 towards my course fees until my degree is complete, this means I will have £2500 of my tuition paid for this September, and another £2500 of my tuition paid next September!
Not only was I completely surprised to receive such an award, after some research I have found I am the only one this year to have received it. I feel very honoured and slightly confused as I had no idea such an award existed let alone be eligible to receive it!
So I would like to take this opportunity to graciously thank Susan Collins the Director of the Slade, and the Slade Scholarship and Prizes committee for such a wonderful award.
Thank you.
13 June 2011
The hard work paid off!
I am very pleased to inform you all that I received a mark of 70 (a First!!!) for my year's work at the Slade! In my feedback the tutors explained they do not commonly award First's but they were impressed with my hard work and the amount of research and discovery I have made that they felt it was appropriate.
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I'm completely over the moon, everyone in the year did well I believe, with the majority of people receiving marks from 67-69 (which is a high 2-1).
It's really encouraging to get a high mark, and it makes me feel like what I'm interested in isn't all nonsense! Although of course getting a First doesn't mean I can kick back and relax! I will be working harder than ever in my 2nd year, and I'll strive to get another First this time next year!
Also, as promised, here is the photo of the most recent painting I did, still not sure about it as I don't think it's as successful as the two I made over Easter, but let me know what you think!
So that's the end of my first year, it's seriously flown by and I feel like I've definitely made the most of it.
If you want to see all the work I've made over the last year please CLICK HERE to visit my website!
:)
I'm completely over the moon, everyone in the year did well I believe, with the majority of people receiving marks from 67-69 (which is a high 2-1).
It's really encouraging to get a high mark, and it makes me feel like what I'm interested in isn't all nonsense! Although of course getting a First doesn't mean I can kick back and relax! I will be working harder than ever in my 2nd year, and I'll strive to get another First this time next year!
Also, as promised, here is the photo of the most recent painting I did, still not sure about it as I don't think it's as successful as the two I made over Easter, but let me know what you think!
So that's the end of my first year, it's seriously flown by and I feel like I've definitely made the most of it.
If you want to see all the work I've made over the last year please CLICK HERE to visit my website!
6 June 2011
Waiting around...
Hello everybody!
It's been a while, I've been up to quite a lot in the last few weeks!
Firstly, the Slade degree show was a success, the private view was so busy and it was great to see the building transformed into an amazing exhibition space!
Next on the agenda was my assessment, leading up to it I wanted to make another painting so I was in the studio and found it quite a battle getting the right colour and composition after the breakthrough I had with my last two paintings. But I feel happy with the result now and the assessment went well I think, it was a really relaxed discussion about my progression over the year.
So now I am awaiting my grade for the year, I feel I've worked hard and really established my interests and focussed on a subject matter. I'd be happy with a 2.1 if I'm honest, although as long as I pass it doesn't really matter what my grade is as it doesn't count towards my final mark.
Hopefully I'll get my grade by the end of this week, then next Monday I have a feedback session with a tutor, it's a sort of end-of-year debrief I guess. Between now and then I'm just trying to get organised, I have work to bring home from the studio and a holiday to organise! So for now, continuing with my work isn't a high priority but my interest is always there, in fact I saw there is an exhibition of 150 years of royal wedding memorabilia at the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising so I'm really interested in checking that out and hopefully getting some new resource photos!
I'll be sure to post some photos of my latest painting soon and of course I will let you all know what grade I get! I can't quite believe this first year has gone so quickly!
xx
It's been a while, I've been up to quite a lot in the last few weeks!
Firstly, the Slade degree show was a success, the private view was so busy and it was great to see the building transformed into an amazing exhibition space!
Next on the agenda was my assessment, leading up to it I wanted to make another painting so I was in the studio and found it quite a battle getting the right colour and composition after the breakthrough I had with my last two paintings. But I feel happy with the result now and the assessment went well I think, it was a really relaxed discussion about my progression over the year.
So now I am awaiting my grade for the year, I feel I've worked hard and really established my interests and focussed on a subject matter. I'd be happy with a 2.1 if I'm honest, although as long as I pass it doesn't really matter what my grade is as it doesn't count towards my final mark.
Hopefully I'll get my grade by the end of this week, then next Monday I have a feedback session with a tutor, it's a sort of end-of-year debrief I guess. Between now and then I'm just trying to get organised, I have work to bring home from the studio and a holiday to organise! So for now, continuing with my work isn't a high priority but my interest is always there, in fact I saw there is an exhibition of 150 years of royal wedding memorabilia at the Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising so I'm really interested in checking that out and hopefully getting some new resource photos!
I'll be sure to post some photos of my latest painting soon and of course I will let you all know what grade I get! I can't quite believe this first year has gone so quickly!
xx
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