Bohemian, 2013.
I was approached by a fellow artist to exhibit an artwork for the exhibition he curated at the Bethesda Chapel in Stoke-on-Trent. His idea was for me to exhibit an existing sculpture I had made due to the time constraints and the mountainous university work we had to complete.
However, knowing myself too well, it was not me to just put a sculpture anywhere without any relevance. I had also at this point been very interested in abandoned buildings and site specific art after having completed the [OCCUPIED] event and the Interim 13 exhibiton.
My first interest is exhibiting in a gallery context, but becuase I actively work on two or more series of artworks at any one point, I am also very interested in creating site specific art and how I can merge the two together.
I have become very interested in the architecture of the spaces I work in and have been exploring this through the use of industrial string that is used in the construction of buildings.
I did not have the time to take photographs of this work as I had a deadline in the same week for the Professional Practice modue and was advised that the attached images were not the best photographs taken, another fine art photographer has taken superb ones. He has not got back to me just yet, typical artist. Haha.
Graduate exhibition set up week.
In the past week I secured the temporary walls to the existing, permanent walls and the concrete floor so they are not a hazard to the public. I applied a half a big roll of gummed tape to walls to hide the imperfect edges and attachment gaps. I also filled, sanded and painting the walls. I must have ingested more wall filler dust than food last week.
Graduate exhibition artwork progress.
i have a team of people helping me meet the health & safety requirements. I am doing everything I can to make sure the build is safe and secure alongside making sure my vision is not compromised.
Yesterday I learned that a television screen was to be installed on one of the walls so I had to accommodate the screen within my work as I want to make sure someone elses vision is not distorted either. I with spaces once I am physically in them and I constantly reconfigure my works into many artistic moments and nominate one of these to hold the status of an artwork. Therefore, this screen did not hinder me, it just helped me think about the space in a different way and I have now achieved something I believe works more than any other configuration.
Thank you television screen.
I have the space I wanted for the degree show, it is the gallery space at the entrance to the building.
Here I aim to utilise several temporary gallery walls in different compositions, some attached to the existing wall space & some free standing, with the illusion of them being balanced on Castor wheels.
If my Plan A proposal was not successful, I would have been negotiating every second of the day with the person the space was assigned to to persuade them to switch with me. This is because I intend on having my degree show work use the space as a part of the art. Any where apart from the entrance would have meant that the artwork would be seen as several sculptures and that is all. It would not encapsulate the space and be interacted with in the same way as it will in the entrance as people are directed around the space by the walls and this experience is a crutial part of the work.
More Wardrobe experiments.
This time I have edited some of the photographs to see what the experiments may progress to.
I usually experiment physically, however, due to my interest of the unknown outcome and time constraints, I decided to edit the images to achieve what I could have in real life but faster. This saved time and helpred me to develop other works which were much more significant.
