George Mogg, the curator of the current show you will/would have seen in the Plymouth College of art. While being a curator, Mogg was originally trained as an artist and completed her BA in Fine art 2004. An interesting point Mogg has always had her eyes set on curating ever since she was on her foundation degree. The interest came about from spending time around the many art galleries in Bristol, as well as having the luck to work part-time in a gallery. A huge advantage to have when you would finish your Fine art Degree as you will have the insight from the course, but the “real life” skills gained from working in an art based environment and that proverbial foot in the door right as you head out to make your name known.
At the time of the lecture Mogg has been working freelance and has started to reintroduce her own practice, which seems to be all over the place with a wide range of mediums and techniques. However Mogg claims that through her curatorial practice shes is able to get as much, if not more, satisfaction as she would get from her artistic practice. The were many questions were put forward in the lecture, but the main one that stood out was “can anywhere become a gallery space” Mogg’s example of this was when she turned an old unused shed on the Oxford Brookes University. Mogg took on this unconventional and turned it into a makeshift gallery which could only hold 1 or two small pieces at anyone time.
Over all the lecture was very insightful and proved to be useful to those who aren't sure of what direction they would take once they completed their BA Fine Art course. Either you go into a curatorial pathway, or you still stick to the fine art route you still can get involved in the artistic route and still be a part of things like the layout of exhibitions and doing random things like making pop up gallery spaces.