What is a studio?

Week 2. What is a studio?

• Definition of a studio: 'an artists work room.' Studio derives from the latin work for 'study' or 'zeal' meaning diligence. 
• A studio can be a place of solitude, somewhere to work without any distractions. 
• A personal place to create work and not worry about mess in your home.
• Somewhere to create and explore, to display older work and to work from it or to develop idea's. 
• Benefits of working in a shared studio place such as university include being able to observe and learn from the work of others, to assist and be assisted by people around you and to socialise and share idea's.
• Having your own personal space allows you the freedom to create whatever you want, the space is entirely for artwork, painting, sculpture, or drawing. 
• There are negatives to sharing studio space is that there are most likely going to be distractions, other people to consider, less freedom of spreading out work and clearing up after working.