Hi, hope everyone is well.
Rachel, thankyou so much for a lovely meal last Monday, you're such a great cook!
I hope everyone has a great easter in the sunshine...
Heard back from the RCA and I didn't get in , fuck em!
easter love,
Ninaxx
Rachel, thankyou so much for a lovely meal last Monday, you're such a great cook!
I hope everyone has a great easter in the sunshine...
Heard back from the RCA and I didn't get in , fuck em!
easter love,
Ninaxx
posted by Nina at 8:44 am
5 Comments:
ooooh nooo, Nina.
I am so sorry. I hope you are ok.
It is tremendously difficult to get into RCA though and in my opinion it is a major success to get even an interview!!! Well done for this. xx ;-)
I know it doesn't help very much but you never know why you didn't get in! It might have just been a very stupid reason... for example the chemistry of the group wasn't right. (too many females or so... I know it should really be artistic merrit - but unfortunately only in a perfect world) You don't know what is going on behind the curtains.
Most important thing is now to take a little break to regain some energy and confidence and then get in contact with them. Get an appointment to get some feedback. You might be on top of a waiting list if someone drops out - seriously, don't put too much thought into questioning your work - it will grind on you.
Feedback is important because of two reasons -
1.to get (hopefully) an honest feedback and therefore some essential ideas of how to push your work (even just if you don't take their advice on but the discussion triggers something in you - like a can opener give you access to the content of a tin (=the pool of knowledge) ;-)
2.equally important: to show them that you are serious and really want to get a place (this might just tip you into their favourites)
actually, there is a point
3. to start to get to know them and get into conversation with them - networking for next year...
This point reminds me of Lisa, who suggested to me to build up a relationship with the Artscouncil - to increase funding possibilities.
invite the RCA for shows you do, put them on your mailing list.
Please don't give up!!!
Goldsmiths tell people on the open day that very often people get in after several attempts. Their slogan was:
PERSISTANCE HELPS
YOU GO GIRL xxxxxxx
throw self-pitty over board... kick a wall, sream in the toilet. dance at midnight in the woods
get wrecklessly hammered
Get it out of your system
and then
RISE LIKE PHOENIX ABOVE THE ASHES
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
lots of love
Biggi
You're way too good for those stuck up loosers! fuck em indeed! I didn't get in either and its the best thing that never happended to me.
hooray for life on the edge and not bowing to the man!
You're wonderful
xxxxxxxxx
....and it's all pretty arbitrary anyway....its your WORK that counts not where you do it
...a long way back I tried to get a scholarship for my dream course...I didn't and had to go elsewhere and was a bit miserable for a while but in a few weeks i let go of this dream and was engaged - ironically at this point I was offered the scholarship (as the original student who was offered it had dropped out) - I took it..and now years later in retrospect I think it would have mattered where I went (and I think the place i left was prob more creative) - it was the letting go that counted and engaging in the work at hand (something I'm still trying to do - so THAT requires more practice than going to some posh establishment)..do you want to be known for your work or for your connections? ahem - I rest my case xxx
P.S. apart from that persistance yes does help - but but i think i'd advocate power over force...
hey nina, not all the great artists walked through the doors of the RCA. once piece of info from my old tutors (all RCA trained) 3 strikes. if it's a must it will happen but enlighteness came come from many different directions and its fun to think outside the box.
hugs for now x
Thankyou so much for your comments, really filled me with confidence to carry on regardless ever stronger :) thankyou xx
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