My Degree Show
So, last night that was it!
After 5 years of hard work I am glad everyting is finished now so I can have long, lazy summer 
I am leaving for Korcula next week
Photos from last night:
Me and my work
Still from my film ” Time to go home (Final Hour)”
Crowd at the exhibition
Crowd in front of uni ( note me at the right ) – click here to see larger photo
My artist statement:
My work explores the banal, repetitive experiences of my daily journey through London and its continuous peripheral changes. I record and track the details of these journeys through video images and map-paintings, adopting them as personal souvenirs.
My film ?time to go home (final hour)? presents a narrative of places designed only for waiting , each appearing for a few seconds, as the doors open and close like camera shutters. I have selected certain clips of empty bus stops, some sheltered, some signposted, emphasising the loneliness of such non-places. I try to bring out the sense of entrapment and alienation as the bus stops mechanically even when there are no passengers to get on or off. I also imagine the opening doors as an exit to freedom from feeling trapped on a bus journey after entering the wrong bus on the wrong route.
I use the London A-Z and bus journey maps as reference points and symbols of communication to paint in acrylic on canvas. I aim to create these maps as records of common experience, which appreciate the humorous and the poetic in an otherwise anonymous environment.
Some additional links:
my home page
pages with some of my artwork
my essay about non-place of travel
3 Responses to “My Degree Show”
thanks roger !
your book recommendation i welcomed – i just read some reviews, and i am very much interested to look for it in the bookshops.
thanks again
Hello!
Very Interesting post! Thank you for such interesting resource!
PS: Sorry for my bad english, I’v just started to learn this language 
See you!
Your, Raiul Baztepo
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Congratulations on completing your five years and have a happy summer in Korcula. Before you leave why not buy Jan Morris’s valedictory book “Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere”? You might find it a helpful antidote to non-places. Bits of travel may indeed be banal, but arriving rarely is. n.b. Korcula!.