Kate wiles: Kate wiles is an artist and tutor at Nottingham College and has spoken to us about curatorship. Wiles studied art for a foundation degree after A levels, Graduated with a BA from Tree university in the late 90's and spent a year at the Royal academy being tutored and mentored by Tracy emmen. Wiles has worked with many artists such as Marc quit on 'Blood head' and Gilbert and George on 'The dirty words pictured',and has had a role with curating for these exhibitions. Using this experience Wiles was able to buy a building and turn it into a gallery space to exhibit her course mates work once she moved back to Nottingham, and is still in touch with artists such as 'Matt Jordan' to this day. During this time Wiles put on many shows and exhibitions such as 'Little wolf parade' which was an evening of performance art, and when wiles graduated in 2001 she was able to use all of her experience with curating to work for 'Castle fine Art...
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FMP: Project proposal We are now moving onto the final major project of the year which will last 16 weeks, and we will exhibit the final piece at the end of year show. While thinking about this project my initial thoughts are that I want this project to be photography based. I have worked with different photography processes in the past and I found the to be versatile and interesting and I enjoyed doing them, in particular Cyanotypes, and I hope to experiment with a multitude of photography processes and expand my skill set. I want to work with different materials such as fabrics like calico as opposed to only paper as I believe that this will allow me more freedom in how I install and present the final outcome, for instance, creating a stretched canvas to display a cyanotype or screen print. When thinking about the initial themes I want my FMP to be personal and represent the healing journey that I have had to go on in terms of my physical health, the recovery an...
