

PILOT Project (Bachelor of Visual Arts)
May 18 - 22
Gallery Three
Artists: Aleesha Darling, Sam Atasani, Kate Bedford, Helena Ancliffe, Michelle Lee, Chelsea Bews
The PILOT Project (Bachelor of Visual Arts) employs St Paul Street Gallery Three as a teaching gallery. Students work in groups to develop exhibitions focused around their studio concerns. This enables students to experiment with issues relevant to installation and appropriate exhibition practice in advance of their BVA degree submissions. These issues relate to resolving artworks for final presentation, the specifics of a particular space or site and consideration of the spectator and the viewing experience. PILOT Project also develops the professional practice of documenting projects and catalogue production in relation to the contexts and meanings inherent in the artworks themselves. The project also seeks to encourage management skills within given parameters of resources, time and working within a team. The underpinning educational philosophy relies on student input and direction informing the brief and underscores the assessment. In this respect the paper functions as a collaborative research forum. There is constant workplace and community feedback contributing to a vocational and industry emphasis.