Uni Summer Project. Fresh new beginnings.

1. Firstly you must make two postcard size (A5) pieces or work.
These can be in any medium, drawn, painted, photographed, cut, printed, written etc. We want you to make one that reflects your interests and ways of working and one that is a pastiche of an artist you admire or admire or are inspired by (this may relate to the second task). All the works will be presented as a 'wall of inspiration' as part of the induction week.

2. Secondly you must identify either a work by an individual artist or group of artists in an exhibition and write a review.
This needs to be up to 500 words. Think about what interests you about their art and in what way it might inform your own work. This will need to be given to your tutorial group tutor during induction week.
As an optional extra you may wish to extend this by beginning an Art Blog that you can continue to maintain throughout your time at university. If you choose to do this please email the link to your blog to me (dfitzjohn@cardiffmet.ac.uk) before the first day of induction Week. If you do this you will not need to present a printed version to your tutor.

3. Thirdly you must make two artworks that will introduce you to your tutorial group.
These works should represent your interest. They can be presented in any medium. They may be two or three dimensional, in the form of paintings, sculpture, film, photography, performance, happening etc. You choose!

4. Finally you need to begin to keep sketchbooks. (Many of you probably already do this). 
A sketchbook should be something like a diary composed of drawings and images made in any medium - they could be depictions of things seen or imagined, ideas, scribbled notes, monochrome images, coloured images, collaged images, photographs. It is a personal memoir explained in visual terms. it's worth remembering that all the staff and students at CSAD value sketchbooks very highly.

The work produced by all four of these tasks will be used and critiqued as part of your induction week Tuesday 17th September Friday 20th September 2013.