So today we had a talk off a Ceremicist. She didn't set up her company till about 5 years ago. Her parents immagrated from poland after the war as Germans used them as slaves.
When she was young she studied foundation art. After that she specialised down south in photography, where she would overlay photos to get final images and she didn't have photoshop.
In the 80's after graduation she worked in theatre as a costume designer. After that she decided again for a career change, and worked in Barcelona and Poland as an english teacher. This was in 1989.
She then returned too england, and studied Advertising in Watford. She kept a visual board of wrappers, tickets, sand etc as a diary for 10 years. In the midst of this she won a competition to design a t shirt for a company called Droog, where she designed a t shirt that looked like it had been cleaned and folded constantly.
Not long after tyneside cinema were selling off their old seats, so she bought some and used them too take pictures of for a project.
Another project she did was take notes that her mam wrote, and put them on tiles, they were exhibited at Northumbria University, but all of them were sold, which taught her to be careful what she exhibits. She used to have a rat, who would do random things, which she called art, so she kept a photography portfolio of the rats work.
Again after this she decided for another career change, she started making chairs, and shelves which are held on with screws/ string to give an illusion they're hanging by screw and string. She also designs porclain paper which you can write on etc, and maps etc for wedding presents. And subsequently from this she was in the culture awards 2012 for the journal.
This was a good presentation, it's great to see how people can have so many different career paths before they choose the one that suits them the most.
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