Critical studies guest speaker: Graham Elstone
Multidisciplinary artist who has worked internationally cross media/ medium successfully as well as as a community worker and educator. Promoted collaboration, resilience, adaptability.
Has a focus on emerging tech and interactive installations.
Was really inspiring listening to Graham and his passion for making and innovation.
He cane across as a decent grounded thoughtful person who tailored his talk to us as a group, giving us the opportunity to reflect on our own skills and needs.
Some of the advive he gave thst resonated witb me was:
Work is as many disciplines as you can.
Experiment with different media and mediums as much as you can.
See what's possible.
Have a laugh.
Share.
Learn.
Be creative in every sense of the word.
Be resilient; fill your cup however you can to maintain this resilience.
We did a group exercise on useful attributes and skills for an artist to have:
He is keen on working with recycled materials and is collaborating with a community organisations called Future Makers to develop recycled art mediums like this....
