Maud Cotter: Crawford Art Gallery, Crawford School of Art
Title
Maud Cotter: Crawford Art Gallery, Crawford School of Art
Subject
Built Heritage:
Description
Maud explains how she came to study at Crawford School of Art in 1972. She praises her tutors but notes that many of them were fired when a new teaching regime was brought in to support a new Diploma qualification. She says the college had an air of freedom and informality, where the boundaries between art school and gallery, and between professional artists and students were blurred. She talks about rooms in the gallery that attracted her and returns to the topic of her teachers.
Note: Part of Heritage DVD ‘If the stones could speak’
Note: Part of Heritage DVD ‘If the stones could speak’
Date
12 May 2014
Identifier
CFP_SR00511_cotter_2014
Coverage
Cork, Ireland 1970s
Source
Cork Folklore Project Audio Archive
Rights
Cork Folklore Project
Language
English
Type
Sound
Format
1.wav File
Interviewee
Interviewer
Duration
47min 41sec
Location
Cathedral Avenue, Shandon, Cork, Ireland
Original Format
.wav
Bit Rate/Frequency
24bit / 48kHz
Transcription
The following is a short extract from the interview transcript, copyright of the Cork Folklore Project. If you wish to access further archival material please contact CFP, folklorearchive@gmail.com
Well, when I joined the college, we were told, that we could, this was a completely different system now, it was the ATHC, there are about fourteen different exams you had to do, we were told as part of our initiation, you know as students, that we could go into any class at any level, so the classes were being run on first year, second year, third year, fourth year level, and we could go into any class we wanted to go into, [pause] I went out in the first group because my name is ‘C’, and when I was out there I just said, I am not going back to my own class actually I am just going to stay out here and advance life drawing and all this sort of stuff, I said they will come and get me and give out to me [cough], you know, and I will just wait for that to happen but they actually never did. That’s the kind of place it was like, it was amazing. But my very first lesson, was antique drawing, and the college then, see the school, as it existed then, was really a 19th Century structure in all its aspects practically, in terms of the structure of teaching, well that’s not, that’s not fair on my extraordinary tutors actually, but the kind of educational structure that was there, was kind of 19th Century.
Well, when I joined the college, we were told, that we could, this was a completely different system now, it was the ATHC, there are about fourteen different exams you had to do, we were told as part of our initiation, you know as students, that we could go into any class at any level, so the classes were being run on first year, second year, third year, fourth year level, and we could go into any class we wanted to go into, [pause] I went out in the first group because my name is ‘C’, and when I was out there I just said, I am not going back to my own class actually I am just going to stay out here and advance life drawing and all this sort of stuff, I said they will come and get me and give out to me [cough], you know, and I will just wait for that to happen but they actually never did. That’s the kind of place it was like, it was amazing. But my very first lesson, was antique drawing, and the college then, see the school, as it existed then, was really a 19th Century structure in all its aspects practically, in terms of the structure of teaching, well that’s not, that’s not fair on my extraordinary tutors actually, but the kind of educational structure that was there, was kind of 19th Century.
Citation
Cork Folklore Project, “Maud Cotter: Crawford Art Gallery, Crawford School of Art,” accessed April 29, 2024, https://corkfolklore.org/archivecatalolgue/document/171.