Vicky Bennet’s lecture was a great start to the new semester.

She is a multimedia artis based in Brighton. The work shown during the lecture were incredible and fun audio-visual collages. Vicky managed to mash up the songs from different eras and genres and to achieve incredible, harmonious effects. I adored her visual work too, it is something that I am finding interest in and would like to further develop.

There was a lot of good points she made, and here are some that particularly hit the spot for me:

1.We don’t own ideas

2.We grew uo to mimic

3.People are always sampling

Those 3 points are saying pretty much the same and something that I struggled to accept for many years and what was (I think), stopping me from doing anything creative.

As an artists we have to accept, that everything was pretty much already invented and used in way way or another and it is very difficult to create something truly original. On the other hand, it does not mean that our art can not be unique. We just have to take all the inspiration possible and recreate, deconstruct it on our own terms.

Vicky have not finish her degree and I find it great that not everyone has to go the same path. She admitted that she has been struggling financially and is always “on a budged”, which me and probably most of the fellow students can relate to. It did not stop her from making amazing art and show it at some great spaces, not necessarily galleries.

A truly inspirational artist!!