Projects Log

JAN 2025: Starting my job at school...

This month I started my job as a teaching assistant! It has genuinely been the most fun I have had at work since my placement year started. All the staff I work with are lovely and offer great advice, and the students are great!

I found I've really enjoyed talking to the students and assisting with the work as well as discussing careers with some of them. I find it best when I am able to sit down and work with one student at a time as it is nice to get into the flow of working with a student rather than jumping around alot.

The prep work has also been interesting and fun as I've gotten to make models for classes and set up for lessons. Ive been really enjoying it and its given me some releif to know there are jobs out there that I can enjoy that aren't impossible to get into.

DEC 2024: My First Art Market!

This month I had my first ever art market. Ive never really sold much art before so this was an exciting opportunity! I held a table at FFF in Dalston, where I sold some prints, badges and stickers.

I sold more than I expected to for my frist time, however it was a fairly quiet market. This was nice though because it meant I got to talk to all the other lovely stall holders too! Everyone was incredibly friendly and insanely talented. It was such a nice refreshing look at art that I felt like I had lost since coming to London.

I was genuinely impressed and inspired by everyone I met, and it was a great way to learn how to market my art too.

SEPT 2024: Starting my art studio job...

So. This job started for me in September, but I am writing this as it ends in January. It was 5 months working as a painting and textiles intern to an artist in london. It has probably been the most stressfull job I've ever had. I felt very cluless through most of my time at the studio, having no prior experience in that situation and been given little to no training. I was very anxious and frustrated when I started but over time I learned how to make the most of my day.

I am thankful that things eased up once a studio co-ordiantor was hired, though that was towards my last month at the company.Despite all these frustrations I did feel I learnt alot about working envrionments and myself. I learnt that for any place to function properly there needs to be organisation and communication. I picked up alot of technical skills, which is always good, and I am much better at photoshop now. I came out of this learning alot more about working life, and a bit clearer on my likes and dislikes in work and jobs.

AUG 2024: Art Mural

For a week this month I was working on a mural for a youth center in Solihull. I worked with a group of 10 people, aged 16-22 to design and paint the mural. It was an intense week I think, especially after a summer of not doing much, and the group leaders were often hard to work with. However, I met some lovely people and had interesting conversations about art and careers it can lead to. It was nice to meet people who shared similar interests to me but had completely differnt careers or goals in mind.

It was also nice to talk to older people who knew a bit more about the art world, as well as younger students fiding and figuring out their careers. I made some good friends despite the pressured environment.