Its up! (the exhibition at the artrium gallery is now in place)

A stressful day!!

On a lighter note here are some pictures of some work exhibited within the space. As with many things, things do change at he last minute and problems do occur. Our original wall plan when laid out in the Atrium Gallery space did not work as we had visualised, certain pieces  would be lost with in the building and its already existing artwork, too sacrifices had to be made due to space and content of pieces. I think the atrium Gallery space with St James Bexley wing is a brilliant opportunity to present in. A lot of consideration had to be taken into account when placing a piece of artwork on the gallery. There were certain boundaries and certain disallowed content. For me this did not hinder a problems to the content, the only problem that was highlighted is that dew to hanging of my piece it could be easily damaged or stolen. I was prepared for this, I wanted these pieces to be in complete vulnerability with the audience. I was really pleased that my work was exhibited at the hospital and I was really nourished by the difference of environment and audience in comparison to a white cube gallery space, to me if offered a brilliant opportunity for artwork to be in public and not only in a public space; but a hospital. For what purpose does the artwork construe by being in such an environment as a hospital. To offer support, escapism, to challenge them or even hope?

Modern art is made out of rubbish! Its interesting to point out how art can be used to communicate to the audience in a completely different context. Its purpose not to lie in the route of the artwork but the key factor of the message it is portraying to the audience. Such pieces of artwork like rainbow worrier that was created from 5,000 plastic bags including plastic fish in fishing nets to highlight how plastic is destroying our marine ecosystem. Their is a direct message here that too engages with the environment it is placed in. What would happen to this piece if it were to placed within four walls, in a gallery space? Would the true message be lost, would it still be present? Furthermore by presenting the difference in environment or gallery space it too has an impact on the audience who will see the work. Would an audience take a message such as what is being portrayed in this piece the same on beach as they would walking through a gallery

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/oceans/rainbow-worrier-20080926

Take a look!!!!

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Check out my blog list

As I have progressed thoughout this module through audiences, I have become slightly more technologically minded, furthermore I wanted to highlight my blog list at the bottom of my blog where you can find some really intresting blogs I have come across. I think a blog that is definatley worth a visit is; hautenature, ive highlighted one paticular post in reference to the artist Fran crowe. As I am currently taking an elective in recycling and sustainability I came across Fran Crowe through a BBC radion program. Her work is so inspirational and too how she uses her artwork to highlight harsh matters about what we are doing to our enviroment too her audience. She too uses humour to put cross many of these ideas within her artwork, I wont say too much as I think you should definatley take a look at her and her artwork


http://hautenature.blogspot.com/2008/05/plastic-beach-junk-art-fran-crowe.html

My choice of hanging (how somethings just happen)

Sitting in my studio space discussing my work with Rory, I brought up the question of how might I hang my work, I had always been wary of placing my work behind a frame. I even placed place my piece Blanche within a frame but for me it did not infer the right representation to mirror that of the material used and the subject matter. Looking at Blanche, which I had unconsciously hung on bulldog clip but entrapped a small piece of paper between that and the bulldog clip just to protect the paper. Rory straight away questioned why I had done such, was it deliberate. It wasn’t the insignificance of the paper between the bulldog clip now raised such a highlighting feature that I had not previously engaged with. But unconsciously I had consciously presented this piece in such a way it too created a cocoon of delicacy and protection of this fragile subject and material.

Discussion with Louisa (my work)

Having one of my final pieces ready, I discussed with Louisa how my work would be best presented and hung. In light of this I had chosen to exhibit my pieces at The Atrium Gallery within St James Hospital. This too would have an impact into how the piece would be presented, taking into consideration the audience that would be in witness to my work and how might this communicate to them. Knowing now of the gallery space and environment my work would be exhibited in, a crucial part to how my work would be presented would need to be explored within the choice and its meaning in light of the work its self .

• How might my work be framed, and what type of frame could be used;
• Does my work need to be framed, what alternatives could be used
• Do the pieces need to be attached to a more durable surface
  

Another point I wanted to explore was; by having my work within a hospital environment what influence does my work have and too how would the audience receive my work in comparison to that of a traditional gallery space?

The audiences awareness

Rethinking to my last post I raised awareness as to where I would feel that my work would be most successful, I didn't necessarily pick up on the difference in audiences. As my work too relates to significant women such as artists, models and literary characters, the consciousness to these characters may not be recognised to everyone. In conjunction it made me think how by placing a piece in an environment such as book shop, library or even specific departments within a university building; i.e an English or literature department where by there maybe a bigger audience who will be aware of such characters as Blanche Dubois and Esther Greenwood for example. I would like to investigate this further as to how different the work may be seen from an audience who is aware of the women in reference to how an audience who is unfamiliar with responds to.