I will write a long story tonight
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Reformatting the artists' CV
In April, one of the biggest tasks I finished was to reformat many artists' CV. Our institution has its own CV format - the concise format can well fit into any exhibition or printed brochure, but a lot of artists' CV had overwhelming word counts and various styles.
The process of reformatting was tiring but I got a good idea how to arrange an artist's CV with a clear structure, and more important, I was really pleased with serving for the artist who needed our help.
After reformatting those CV, I was given several artists' names and required to send emails to the galleries representing them to ask for their CV, for our organisation currently lost their records. I firstly wrote down their names on a new word file and then searched all of them online in oder to find available CV. I sent out about five emails to the four galleries to ask for the detailed CV, but two galleries responded me with very strange ones of few information; although I request so many times, no replies any more. The artist David Thomson replied me the following week, and I reformatted all the CV I got from those kind-hearted galleries.
As last, I sent a small report to the curator, in which I identified the artists whose CV were successfully reformatted, whose CV were provided again by the galleries and whose CV lacked details and still needed the contact with the galleries.
I practised being more and more organised in every task. ~^o^~
About writing that two texts （ˇˍˇ）
My supervisor wanted me to write a text for a client. The artist's name is Stuart Watters. His painting looks like Vincent's starry night. I was a little nervous actually, for the computer in my office is not installed with any translator. As not a native speaker, I found this was not a piece of cake. The curator required no more than 500 words, but I know that the less, the harder.
I researched Stuart Watters from the file and the internet, and indeed got some useful information, such as his general style, but not too much. I established a new word file to take down all the information and references, and then I spent more than a half day writing this text. The curator was very satisfied with what I wrote and she gave me another one to write. But I had completely no idea how to write this one. The artist was a very emerging artist and I could hardly find any review about his general style. As this series I required to write was screen printings, I spent some time researching the aesthetic characteristics of printmaking.
I love writing art and I benefit much from a book called A Short Guide to Writing about Art, what gives me a lot of clues regarding how to analyse formal qualities. I ll soon show these two article I wrote, when I go to work next Monday.
The first
Reinis Zusters was a prolific painter who produced large landscapes, cityscapes as well as portraits. Absorbed in oil painting, he expressed his fascination with exploring nature and his inner world.
I researched Stuart Watters from the file and the internet, and indeed got some useful information, such as his general style, but not too much. I established a new word file to take down all the information and references, and then I spent more than a half day writing this text. The curator was very satisfied with what I wrote and she gave me another one to write. But I had completely no idea how to write this one. The artist was a very emerging artist and I could hardly find any review about his general style. As this series I required to write was screen printings, I spent some time researching the aesthetic characteristics of printmaking.
I love writing art and I benefit much from a book called A Short Guide to Writing about Art, what gives me a lot of clues regarding how to analyse formal qualities. I ll soon show these two article I wrote, when I go to work next Monday.
The first
Reinis Zusters was a prolific painter who produced large landscapes, cityscapes as well as portraits. Absorbed in oil painting, he expressed his fascination with exploring nature and his inner world.
Zusters bought an old house at Greenwich
Reinis Zusters OAM was born 15 October 1918 in Odessa ,Russia Riga Technical College Western Australia Australia , Japan and USA Japan and many other public and private collections in Australia Wentworth Falls
The Second
Stuart Watters is an artist who specialises in creating abstract work. He chooses succinct creative language to constitute a pictorial surface of formal rhythm.
His screen printings Fillet (1984) and Whisket (1984) show the strength and beauty of abstract form by the manipulation of shapes and colours. Fillet (1984) presents an attractive visual focus by the artist’s construction of the layered shapes, fresh and mute colours, whilst Whisket (1984) reveals a more succinct language to emphasise a beauty of a large blank which not only enhances the sense of light but also leaves us something to guess. The configurations of two works show fresh and strong visual effects. Stuart Watters is an artist who specialises in creating abstract work. He chooses succinct creative language to constitute a pictorial surface of formal rhythm.
Stuart Watters studies painting at City Art Institute, Sydney. Since 1984, he has had numerous solo exhibitions including the latest The Shape of Language (2010) in Kudos gallery, Sydney, and his work has been exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He was a recipient of the inaugural Sir William Dobell Art Foundation Award and the artist currently lives and works in Sydney
Before the new library
When I came into the office a couple of weeks ago, I was surrounded by stacks and stacks of magazines. They were artist profiles, art crafts international, artlink, art monthly, and other interesting magazines. The curator was ill that day, but via email she asked me to check through all these magazines in oder to find the reviews relevant to the artworks in our collection. If I found these articles, she wished I could clip them out or photocopy them, place them into the corresponding artist's file and throw away these old magazines for the installation of the new library.
It was definitely easy to find the name of the artists who in our collection by EMU, but the review articles on the specific artworks in the collection were very rare; thus I planned to clip out the article related to the artist who in our collection and his/her artworks were similar to the works that in out collection.
I spent solid four days working on these, but nearly the end I suddenly found that I forgot to mark the references on the top right corner of the article cut out. One significant thing I learnt from this magazine checking was that marking the reference was essential, because if the article could be used one day, it would be terrible that the reference could not be found. After checking them one by one through EMU, I classified every article according to the surname of the artists and then placed them back into their files.
Writing essays seems to be a daily routine of a curator. She/he needs a lot of inspirations and also references. That is a reason why the curator wanted to keep all the useful articles in file. Many clients require the article about the work he/she appreciates. Next I ll tell you the story that I wrote two articles for our clients. #^_^#
It was definitely easy to find the name of the artists who in our collection by EMU, but the review articles on the specific artworks in the collection were very rare; thus I planned to clip out the article related to the artist who in our collection and his/her artworks were similar to the works that in out collection.
I spent solid four days working on these, but nearly the end I suddenly found that I forgot to mark the references on the top right corner of the article cut out. One significant thing I learnt from this magazine checking was that marking the reference was essential, because if the article could be used one day, it would be terrible that the reference could not be found. After checking them one by one through EMU, I classified every article according to the surname of the artists and then placed them back into their files.
Writing essays seems to be a daily routine of a curator. She/he needs a lot of inspirations and also references. That is a reason why the curator wanted to keep all the useful articles in file. Many clients require the article about the work he/she appreciates. Next I ll tell you the story that I wrote two articles for our clients. #^_^#
Hello, does anyone want to invite me again?
My email address is actually maomao22266@gmail.com, but all of you presumably are informed of a wrong address. Does anyone want to invite me again? Thanks a lot.
Raining and Books (2) !!!!!!!!
Firstly, a hilarious conversation happened today:
A IT staff asked me: Excuse me, do you know where the restroom is?
Probably due to his special accent
I said: restaurant? Sorry, no idea.
When I wanted to say I brought my lunch, he said:No~X maybe down stairs?"
I said: Oh~you mean the canteen ^ ^
I found he was close to tears, and he said: the toilet
I said: yes, go down stairs. He went down, I followed him and said: turn right!!!
I finished arranging all the books on the new cases today and now I am extremely exhausted.We have a new library now ^ 0 ^ and the curator said that she had been waiting for this for five years = =! It was a hard work and required a lot time; maybe this was the reason why she didn't get started. Our new library is divided into several parts with different themes of books, but the bookcases are little tricky, caz they are identical cubes only with some could be adjustable. I changed my mind so many times to get every group of books fit in every case. Actually, it is hard to report this experience, but what the most important is I knows much better about how to keep all the materials in order. I used to arrange my bookshelf in my bedroom but never tried to arrange this huge case with a floor to ceiling size.
I feel so proud indeed; before leaving, I can make something new to this place I love. Next post I ll tell what I did before preparing the new book cases.
A IT staff asked me: Excuse me, do you know where the restroom is?
Probably due to his special accent
I said: restaurant? Sorry, no idea.
When I wanted to say I brought my lunch, he said:No~X maybe down stairs?"
I said: Oh~you mean the canteen ^ ^
I found he was close to tears, and he said: the toilet
I said: yes, go down stairs. He went down, I followed him and said: turn right!!!
I finished arranging all the books on the new cases today and now I am extremely exhausted.We have a new library now ^ 0 ^ and the curator said that she had been waiting for this for five years = =! It was a hard work and required a lot time; maybe this was the reason why she didn't get started. Our new library is divided into several parts with different themes of books, but the bookcases are little tricky, caz they are identical cubes only with some could be adjustable. I changed my mind so many times to get every group of books fit in every case. Actually, it is hard to report this experience, but what the most important is I knows much better about how to keep all the materials in order. I used to arrange my bookshelf in my bedroom but never tried to arrange this huge case with a floor to ceiling size.
I feel so proud indeed; before leaving, I can make something new to this place I love. Next post I ll tell what I did before preparing the new book cases.
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| The New Library - by Shanjun |
Monday, 30 May 2011
A long day for artist's filing
I found that some artists' files were placed casually,and this probably make them hard to be found in the future.One day in April(sorry forget the date), I made a big decision - to arrange all the artist's files.I could not believe the amazing speed with which the new mails increased. With just a few weeks, the two boxes were full of new mails waiting for filing. Of course, before sorting out these two boxes, I had to check out whether the artists in collection by EMU.
It was strange that some mail in the "waiting for being sorted" box are not in collection after being checked; thus, I spent nearly two hours rechecking all those mail in "the waiting box". I was not overwhelmed by those leaflets, for this time I well used the method of classification to increase my efficiency, which was what I learnt from my first day. It took solid two days to finish arranging the files and I at last found all those artists whose name in the collection but whose files were not in the selves; I wrote down their names and the curators told me that most of them are new artists whose files have not been established.
My fingers tend to get some minor cuts during filing...this is not good...but I felt that I was easy to be absorbed in filing. From then on, the curator gave me more tasks to do. I' ll tell you in next posts, if you are interested in *^ _ ^ * good night...
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It was strange that some mail in the "waiting for being sorted" box are not in collection after being checked; thus, I spent nearly two hours rechecking all those mail in "the waiting box". I was not overwhelmed by those leaflets, for this time I well used the method of classification to increase my efficiency, which was what I learnt from my first day. It took solid two days to finish arranging the files and I at last found all those artists whose name in the collection but whose files were not in the selves; I wrote down their names and the curators told me that most of them are new artists whose files have not been established.
My fingers tend to get some minor cuts during filing...this is not good...but I felt that I was easy to be absorbed in filing. From then on, the curator gave me more tasks to do. I' ll tell you in next posts, if you are interested in *^ _ ^ * good night...
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Raining and Books (1) !!!!!!!!
Our new bookcase was built well during the weekends. Today the curator got quite excited; she has been waiting for this new shelve for such a long time. The office was so quiet as usual, but the outside raining frightened me, for I have never seen such a rain in winter before coming this country.
Time passed so quickly, and my internship is nearly the end (a little sad indeed), but I think my last intern task would make me have no time to contemplate too much.I hope I can arrange all the books in perfect order in this large and new bookcase. I feel this was a hard work but I suppose only me can do this well. I am a person who has a bit OCD and always want anything to be tidy and clean :) You may consider this a joke...but I still remember I used to spent about 10 minutes to tidy up my schoolbag every night before going bed. In all of my courses, I like conservation most and during intern I am fascinated by doing registration (and I like to annoy the registrar). I love the order and detail, and also I love books deeply. So, I guess and hope that I can make this library.
I don't know how many books we get now but they are substantial. Finding the oder is an excellent goal but the process isn't pleasant. Arranging them in the oder of surname is key, and when the two persons get the same surname I need to arrange the oder according to the next letter. Fortunately, I ve practiced this from mail filing, although the work load is huge. The curator ran away before five pm, whilst I finished arranging the case of aboriginal art, but unfortunately, a large number of other monographs turned up again after I though I ve already finished that part. Oh, Lord, help me...
Time passed so quickly, and my internship is nearly the end (a little sad indeed), but I think my last intern task would make me have no time to contemplate too much.I hope I can arrange all the books in perfect order in this large and new bookcase. I feel this was a hard work but I suppose only me can do this well. I am a person who has a bit OCD and always want anything to be tidy and clean :) You may consider this a joke...but I still remember I used to spent about 10 minutes to tidy up my schoolbag every night before going bed. In all of my courses, I like conservation most and during intern I am fascinated by doing registration (and I like to annoy the registrar). I love the order and detail, and also I love books deeply. So, I guess and hope that I can make this library.
I don't know how many books we get now but they are substantial. Finding the oder is an excellent goal but the process isn't pleasant. Arranging them in the oder of surname is key, and when the two persons get the same surname I need to arrange the oder according to the next letter. Fortunately, I ve practiced this from mail filing, although the work load is huge. The curator ran away before five pm, whilst I finished arranging the case of aboriginal art, but unfortunately, a large number of other monographs turned up again after I though I ve already finished that part. Oh, Lord, help me...
Monday, 23 May 2011
A long day and expecting new bookcases to be installed
We got several new bookcases coming in and they will be installed during this weekend. Before that, I spent a long time cleaning up some old books and magazines which looks messy...but good to see our new library :) I will help build this mini library next week.
Sunday, 22 May 2011
Hi Welcome back. More interesting or boring news = =
It is 10 to five now, but I am very tried after helping registration. I don't think my health condition is good currently, for I often feel exausted...being snowed under the assignments, my back tends to hurt almost everyday. I suppose today I won't write more because I am planning to get my thought clearer and then write recent stories of my intern. This post is just a "Hello Again."
Best wishes,
Shanjun
Best wishes,
Shanjun
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