16,000kms away and 24hrs to create a collaborative work in our first week.

My first experience of collaboration in unit 1 was for the 24HR exhibition. Lizzie Cardozo had just taken us on a tour of Saatchi and Yates, and a painting by Benjamin Spiers caught my eye. My entire group where based outside of the UK at the time and we came to a consensus that the work should reflect the way we deal with the time difference. I began the artwork in Australia, by adding zzzz to Benjamin Spiers Spell painting. By the time I woke up she had a cigarette, chocolate necklace, noodles for hair and a pizza halo. To really acknowledge the space between us and the other Chelsea students the work was then printed in Australia and posted to the cookhouse. Knowing that it wouldn’t arrive in time the final piece was a postage receipt with a QR code to the digital work exhibited on @chelseamafa .