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Professional practice Mik Godley:


Mik Godley is an artist who also works part time and teaches life drawing at a. college during this lecture he gave advice about how to improve our own practices and spoke about his own work, processes and family history .

Godley emphasised the importance of doing research about the subject of you work and pieces and advised to make the most of all the resources that are available. Such as online data bases, google translate and google street view, as well as apps such as sketchbook and concepts and when speaking about his own work he mentioned that he uses different forms of technology to aid his work. 

While talking about his own work Godley spoke about his family history and their ties to Poland and Germany. He stated that his lineage and ancestry is a great source on inspiration and is something that he actively researches and implements within his own work and pieces. This is something that resonated with me as I am also interested in my own family history and ancestry, and would like to learn more and involve it within my own work.

Godley also mentioned that experimentation, learning new skills, using different media and having exhibition experience are important things to do and skills to have. I believe that having exhibition experience is one of the most important skills that you could have as an artist, as you may be expected to help set up and take down the artwork. This will also be expected if you an exhibition on your own as you will need to know how to move and transfer the artwork without damaging any of it. 






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