customer discovery questions

We are using the business model canvas to work through different aspects of setting up a business. Week 3 we have to speak to prospective collaborators/partners/clients as we need to get a match between our business values, goals, aspirations etc and the values and goals of our customers before any business is viable or sustainable. …

Feasibility

We have been put into groups to discuss an aspect of the business model canvas, I am introducing our subject, feasibility. I thought I'd work on the text here to help with the reflective piece later. When it comes to setting up a creative practice, It's common to start as business because you love doing …

Creative Entrepreneur course

Relating to the previous post where I was thinking about studio names, I thought I'd start reflecting on the creative entrepreneur course as I go along as I need to write a reflective piece at the end and I find it helpful to reflect here as I go along. Week 3 and I've to speak …

A year on

It's been a year since finishing my MA, and I've been taking time - both to continue making and also to focus on what I want to do going forward. I feel the need to register as a business, but first find a way to describe myself and my story in a succinct, understandable, short …

Untitled 2020

The Bath School of Art Virtual degree show 2020 is online, the title of which (Untitled 2020) alludes to the sadness of not being able to physically show our work. https://www.mastersatbathspa.com/janice-affleck The majority of the images I used were taken by John Taylor, who teaches photography in Bath School of Art, of my MA assessment …

MA Assessment Exhibition

Photos of the exhibition at BSAD Sion Hill Campus, Bath. The end of MA and the exhibition of the Master's project. The group of black parian vessels were inspired by the reflections of the white parian photographed in the River Clyde at the #timberponds next to the timbers that inspired the project. Making the plinth water …

Pulling it all together

Its only a few days now till we set up the assessment exhibition, and hand in our evaluative statements. I've mocked up my space, which is a bit tricky as it's cut in half with a partition wall. The work isn't quite fitting but we are going to sort it out on install day. I …

Instagram

BSAD (Bath School of Art and Design) have asked all the MA students for some stock images and text for the Instagram account. I do struggle to post in my own account, especially at the moment when much of my work is written or organising for the exhibition. Glasgow Ceramics Studio have also asked all …

Shetland glossary- visual poetry

I've worked on a few drafts of this. I began as always transcribing the words into a word document, this time from my glossary of tabu terms from the Haaf fishermen, found first quoted by MacFarlane, then in my Shetland Glossary bought online from the Shetland Times bookstore. ‘Shetland Words’, A dictionary of the Shetland …

Practical reflection

The organisation of the work final presentation has progressed in the last month. I’ve had a couple of meetings with the blacksmith Alesdair working out how to make the water trough for the top of the plinth. He had problems welding the steel plate, as he applied heat it was warping, so I’ve abandoned that …