Knock me down with a feather
Well, this isn't strictly speaking on the subject of us moving to Australia except tangentially... I went into UWE yesterday to have a farewell tutorial with Richard, and I came out of UWE an hour or so later having been invited to ditch the MA and start a PhD based on the research proposal I submitted for an assignment in the Research Methods module... Blimey!
It's brilliant - not least because it fills a two-year hiatus in my study opportunities in between arriving in Australia on a temporary visa and being able, possibly, to pick up my MA again at Southern Cross university once I'd got permanent residency (normally two years). I had various plans for filling the gap including doing some organisational work for Exchange Partners in Print and I've also got an international exchange exhibition lined up between Waringah Printmakers in Sydney and Spike Island Printmakers in Bristol, but I must admit it was always going to be difficult maintaining some of the momentum when it was all going to have to be self-generated.
I'm good at motivating myself and developing projects to get my teeth stuck into, but it's more fun when you've got something concrete to work towards, especially when that 'something' enables me to maintain links with UWE and develop new relationships with some of the people there and a whole bunch of other people I don't yet know but will come to meet through my research!
Anyway, I'm unbelievably flattered to have been asked, and I'm looking forward to it all. It gives me a concrete something of my own - a focus that requires me to be in Australia to do the research and make the art AND requires me to come back to uni in Bristol a couple of times a year... Great!
It's brilliant - not least because it fills a two-year hiatus in my study opportunities in between arriving in Australia on a temporary visa and being able, possibly, to pick up my MA again at Southern Cross university once I'd got permanent residency (normally two years). I had various plans for filling the gap including doing some organisational work for Exchange Partners in Print and I've also got an international exchange exhibition lined up between Waringah Printmakers in Sydney and Spike Island Printmakers in Bristol, but I must admit it was always going to be difficult maintaining some of the momentum when it was all going to have to be self-generated.
I'm good at motivating myself and developing projects to get my teeth stuck into, but it's more fun when you've got something concrete to work towards, especially when that 'something' enables me to maintain links with UWE and develop new relationships with some of the people there and a whole bunch of other people I don't yet know but will come to meet through my research!
Anyway, I'm unbelievably flattered to have been asked, and I'm looking forward to it all. It gives me a concrete something of my own - a focus that requires me to be in Australia to do the research and make the art AND requires me to come back to uni in Bristol a couple of times a year... Great!
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