Turner prize 2016:
I went to see the turner prize 2016 at the Tate Britain, which was won this year by Helen Marten. I was particularly inspired by her work; in terms of the way that she combines sculpture with printing. Her work featured screen prints, combined with the everyday object/readymades. This for me is something that I want to look at my own work, as I like sculptural printing and the combination of sculpture and print together to make work that is an installation. In my own work I am interesting in displaying the print plate with the print, as an element of trace in the work and also to show the process. I am not bothered by the accidental traces and marks in the print as to me this is part of the work and is what makes the work individual.
I also liked the work of Anthea Hamilton, whose piece in the turner prize exhibition was an idea for a doorway, which featured a large bottom, where the gap between the legs makes the opening to the doorway. I really liked this piece as last year I was working on large-scale sculpture and this piece fitted in really well with my project. The piece also fitted with the themes that my work is currently looking at; women, exploitation etc.
Feminist Avant Garde at the Photographers Gallery:
This exhibition was a collection of photography by feminist artists. As both Myself and Lizzy are looking at empowering/exploitation of women in our work, we went to see this exhibition. I really liked a lot of the pieces in the exhibition, especially those from the seductive body; sexuality and objectification section of the exhibition which featured several images from artists that focus on feminism from the point of view of objectification of women.
Within this exhibition I particularly liked the way that there was a lot of pieces where multiple images were displayed together as a collage of image. I really liked this style and this was also something that I saw whilst in the Czech Republic.
