Exhibition Panorama…
Whilst at the gallery with my family I took a series of photos, which I took into photoshop and fused together to create the panorama above.
Tracey Escolme
Be who you are, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind!
Private View… 22/3/2012 and Family visit… 25/3/2012
We had the private view on the 22nd. This was successful with a good turn out from family, friends, and dealers. Then after that the gallery was open to the public and even when the gallery was closed our work was getting viewed through the large windows that front the gallery.
Final layout of my work in the exhibition…….. 21/03/2012
I went back to the gallery on the 21st to hang my work properly. Above are photos to show the final layout of my work in the space.
Show Hanging………………………………………. 20/3/12
After a lot of hard work organising labels, the Artist info sheet and getting together a list of prices… hanging day came. Ashlea and I utilised the same transport as our works were too big to transport in a taxi. We first stood all the work around the gallery in the space they were going to hang to decide on layout. After some moving around we got it all to look well together. Myself and another student had our plinths so they were in the center, so people could walk round and see the sculptures from all sides but this led to health and safety issues so a compromise had to be made which meant rather than 3 plinths only 2 could be used with them standing to the side of the space with my big sculpture being in the center as it didn’t pose any risks when in the center of the space. The 1 plinth less meant that the other students separate sculptures had to be placed on one plinth. To help separate the other students’ sculptures I gave one of my own small plinths to be used in the display of her work. After I helped with the hanging of everybody else’s work I hung my own but had to return the following day as we didn’t have time to hang mine to how I wanted it on the same day.
Exhibition in Corke Gallery…
After sending a proposal to Nic Corke he accepted it and is allowing us to hold an exhibition for 2 weeks in his space which is very exciting.
Auto means self, and nomos means law. Autonomy means giving yourself your own law… We human beings are full of obscusrity, of unresolved personal and historical passions, of half-understood images and enticing forms that we constantly exchange with one another, generating the majority of our motivations and behaviors in the process, so that the act of giving ourselfs our own laws becomes something quite complex, something experimental and experiential, which can never be resolved once and for all, but only cared for and coaxed along in manifold ways, among which we find the arts - those supreme expressions of sensation, intellect and imagination.
Holmes, Brian (2003) Artistic Autonomy and the Communication Society
Jarek Puczel…
I found this artist on the Saatchi Online website and thought how there concept is very similar to what I want to do. I want to show a kiss or closeness yet for it not all to be there, for the viewer to have to work it out or see different things in it. As in my 2D work I’m mainly showing kissing so I feel that this effects what I see in it… I see 2 people kissing but others have commented underneath saying ‘kissing or whispering?”… this is in reference to Lovers (2). In the others I like how they have blocked out the faces… In my work I have not used any recognisable facial features as I don’t want my work to be of someone, it is about what they are doing that is important. Doing this the way I have also makes my work less clear as in some of the silhouettes the person could be either boy or girl so again it makes it less obvious.
Continuation of Shadow work…
After the success of my pop up exhibition I ddecided to go away and create some more silhouettes to play with on the OHP’s. Here are some of of the images that came out of experiments.
Large Sculpture nearly at Completion…
Once this was completely covered in papier mache I decided to paint it all white, which I feel has given the piece a stronger definition that will give it a better pressence in the gallery space. Just one more coat of paint should do it… I hope.
Ways to Display…
Originally I was looking at just displaying one sculpture, which would have been the clay one (central in the pic above) but for this piece to have the pressence that I would want it to have on a plinth on its own the piece would need to be bigger. I would love to do this however in the time that I have before the exhibition and my not having a lot of experience with plaster, which I would have to use I decided that I would not make it as well as I would want it. Experimentingwith some small plinths here I decided that showing 3 on one plinth would have an aesthetically pleasing look and they all work together well. So I went off to the workshop and with the help of Shaun I made my own plinths for the exhibition.
