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At the Beginning
by Alicia Carroll
Northumbria University, BA (Hons) Fine Art, Induction Week, September 2012
Embarking on a three-year journey, over 70 aspiring artists gathered in the newly commissioned studios of
Baltic 39 for a week’s worth of collaborative study.
To begin we were asked to respond to the City of Newcastle, which for most of us was a new and unexplored
environment. Here commenced an intensive layering of ideas generation, testing, skills and techniques
gathering and self expression, and as a group we began to flex our creativity using Newcastle as a catalyst for
artistic production.
Culminating in our first group show, the week’s
experiments enabled us to create, investigate and
interact with each other. It was the first instance of
our community emerging within the structure of
the course.
Pictures by Chris Welton
At the Beginning
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