On the Run in North Korea Exhibition

I attended the launch night of this small photography exhibition at The Brunswick. It was really insightful to see behind the scenes of the word's most secretive country. The three Yorkshire photographers did small talks on their experience in North Korea. What they told us really shocked me as they explained how different it was to what we all thing about North Korea. I personally imagined it to be a very dull, boring, conservative place where everyone had to be well behaved. But their stories and photographs showed a side to North Korea that you would not expect. The photos showed colour, life, humour and happiness. The images showed football matches, psychedelic school buildings, cityscapes and day to day life.


It was relevant to my practice as in Context of Practice I was looking at how valid history and facts can be. I was looking at how secretive North Korea is and this exhibition really opened my eyes to how things are not always as they seem in the media.

L5/L6 Sketchbook Crit

Today we looked at Level 5 and Level 6's summer sketchbooks. I could not believe the scope of talent and it made me so motivated to practice so I can be at that level. It is also quite disheartening to see this amazing work as I hate most of my work, but this has definitely motivated me to improve. We were meant to pick one sketchbook which was the hardest decision but I picked this one.. (unfortunately the work was not named)

I absolutely love this work. Every single page of this sketchbook was so eye catching and interesting to look at. The range of media such as ink/watercolour/collage/pen made it really gripping. I couldn't stop looking at it. This work could not be any more different to my own, I wouldn't even think about working in this way but I would really like to try some of these methods out myself. Even the simple line drawings of the leaves are so interesting to look at I LOVE IT. Also the spacey looking studies I find really alluring as space and the universe is something I am really interested in and find it so aesthetically pleasing. I love how this students work is set out with the borders, making the book look uniform and also the shape of the whole sketchbook is unusual which I like. This student seems to be very experimental which I need to adopt.