In order to raise funds for our art school, the university hosted an art auction of all our current student's donated work. I attended as I had a friend who had put one of his sculptures into the auction.

 

Some of the people from my collaborative Unit X group where there, so I took the opportunity to have a brief meeting with them as we have little time to waste. I got to see inside the Art History studios and what the other students had begun to work on. We organised some dates to share with the rest of the group on Facebook to have group crits of each other's work so that we could get an idea of where everyone is going with there work. It will take place after the Easter break, but we will continue to post images of our work on that page. We talked about coming up with a manifesto of our work that we can display at the exhibition on the 18th of May. Some of the ideas included making a small zine of our work with a statement on how it relates to appropriation, and also a piece that is a 'daisy chain' that we pass around and add our own flare and style to. This actually inspired me with an idea of plaiting hair of others with mine as a collaborative piece, which I will work on over the Easter break.