We were talking in the seminar before Easter about the importance of maintaining the network of illustrators from the course. The network could act as a support network to offer advice and feedback. Keeping contact with everyone would be mutually beneficial helping to inform each other of possible jobs, recommend each other to potential employers and clients help each other with larger collaborative projects. We have had three years of offering feedback through crits and my work has definitely benefited from them, it would be very helpful to continue some form of platform to extend this process beyond the end of the course. With some members of the course most likely moving away from Leeds this could take the form of an online discussion page. As well as supportbwith work the network could help support and advise each other through what is a fairly daunting transition into the professional world.
In a more positive way we could all work together to promote our individual practices to as a group to reach a wider audience. This could be through exhibitions or publications both online and printed. Doing this would help to combine the reach of all members of the network and produce an appealing publication without one person having to put in a huge amount of work. Publications could even become a regular practice showcasing everyone’s latest work.
We have talked before about being proactive and creating projects for ourselves instead of waiting around doing nothing. This would be good practice at working collaboratively on self promotion and would be less daunting than trying to do it alone.
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