Professional Name

All year I've been signing the register next to this very odd spelling of my name, and I've become quite attached to it. I understand the addition of the extra R to make me CorbeRtt, but the extra T to make CorbeRttT has always puzzled me. Sometimes I add a few more to see what that looks like. It looks silly...

It's not been a problem recently, as I seem to have disappeared from the register completely. Been adding myself back on. I shall keep turning up unless someone tells me otherwise...

Change is good

Six weeks to go till we clear out our studios and staff changes are in place. Keith has been awarded the Jerwood Makers Open (well done Keith) and needs to work on his exhibition for July. Sometimes Jane is Keith. Sometimes Dan is Keith. Sometimes Keith is Keith. Sometimes there is a big empty space where Keith should be and the ceramics department feels like the Marie Celeste. Malcolm has gone. Aimee is being Malcolm from now on. Aimee is also being Aimee. This week Aimee was Malcolm on Monday and Aimee on Wednesday. I liked both versions. I think Nick is still Nick. He left but comes back sometimes. Tim is still Tim. Tom is still Tom. We missed Daniel this week but he'll be visiting next week. And Phoebe. We've had lots of great visiting lecturers. Change is good! I'll just keep turning up, talking and listening to whoever is in the building and making stuff. Except when I'm at work. Then I'm not there. I'm somewhere else.

Kaleidoscope

YMCA Printing

With Penny the print technician holding my hand every step of the way I/we have split one of my photographs into four CMYK photo etching plates and printed. The cyan plate inked up...

and printed...

Then the magenta plate...

and printed on top of the cyan...

The yellow...

And the black...

Tried a couple of other combinations at the end of the day. Bit rushed. Back to print tomorrow to have a go on my own.

Alun Graves

Visit from Alun Graves our external advisor. He is the ceramics curator at the V&A. He saw us in pairs and groups and mostly listened. Told most of us to make decisions and get on with it. I'm paraphrasing.

Colour

Pleased with the colour of my water jugs. The bases are quite badly glazed - must do better.

        I like this trio. Perhaps I'll put them on a plinth and go for a minimalist degree show.

Or a long line of these...

Mirrors

Been mucking about with mirrors in an attempt to think about how to resolve my clay work. What am I going to exhibit? How will I exhibit? What do I want people to see in my work? What do I want them to think?  

These are really clumsy pictures, with my big hand and a lamp and a smoke alarm in the way. I really like them though, and am wondering about using mirrors. For more photography? Or my final show? Leave it with me....