STATEMENT
3rd Year BA Hons Jewellery
WRITING A STATEMENT ABOUT YOUR WORK
Statements are professional documents. They are used to inform people about your work in different situations: exhibition information / catalogue; publicity / press releases; further study / job applications; funding applications, etc. You may need different versions for different purposes.
A statement should include what is important about the work, giving background information to the work - what may not be apparent to a viewer - and which enriches the experience of that work. Asking yourself these questions may help:
aims - how are you interpreting the subject of jewellery?
is there a specific purpose or intention?
what specific ideas are you exploring?
how are you expanding or focussing these ideas?
research/sources/influences what was your starting point?
what has prompted you to work in this way?
has anything or anybody influenced you strongly?
what are you looking at / thinking / reading about to inform the work?
how are you interpreting / combining areas of research?
materials/processes/techniques what is important about your choice?
how does it relate to the ideas?
relationship to body/ person what do your pieces do when worn?
how do they feel / move / fit etc?
do they perform a function?
resolution do the pieces have something special to convey?
how do pieces/ images constitute a body of work?
is the context of the work important or particular in some way?
where do you see the work fitting in / being shown / used etc?
anything else that you feel is important
These prompts are a guideline, they can be used in any order as appropriate
Avoid a straightforward description
Avoid a "and then" narrative
Avoid an account of technical details or problems you have encountered
Always read it out aloud to yourself or to others to check it makes sense before you finalise it.
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