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Just got back from London!

Had such an awesome trip.

These are a few of the Galleries I went to…

The Tate Modern: Homeworkers

http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/displa…

The art works I was most interested in were

Tracey Emin –

Annette Messager –

Other exhibits I found interestng were the sculptures in the Energy & Process gallery.

The Wallace Collection : Glasstress- White Light/White Heat

http://www.timeout.com/london/art/glasstress-white…

I went to see as they had a piece of Tracey Emins work on show, ‘Docket’, which i found uninspiring as it was a sculpture of her cat rather than the piece of confessional art i was expecting.

There were however a few other interesting glass pieces including one by Joseph Kosuth, ‘No Numer #19’ which is a text piece and a little more relevant!

The last museum I visited was the Freud Museum.

http://www.freud.org.uk/exhibitions/75211/mad-bad-…

There was a piece of Emin’s work, ‘Be faithful to your dreams’, which was hung on the staircase in the Mad Bad and Sad Women and the Mind Doctors exhibition.

I also found the rest of the gallery really fascinating and got to look around Freud’s house!

So now im feeling alot more positive about my dissertation and studio work, im really glad i went as its given me an excellent insight into seeing these artists work in person.

I would like to go to the Tate Britain another time to see Tracey Emin and Rachel Whitereads original drawings, i would need to contact the galley in advance to view them privately which is no problem if i ask my course leader to write a letter confirming this is relevant to my degree!

Was feeling really down and uninspired in Ipswich so I decided on a spur of the moment whim to use the hotel booking tonight that I had booked ages ago and wasn’t going to use.

So we drove to peckham lodge, gonna look round some art galleries tomorrow to help with research for my dissertation and practical work.

Im currently updating ting my sketchbook in our hotel room, can’t wait to get some DSLR shots around London tomorrow and in the galleries!

looking forward to putting photos up on here…

I had a play with photoshop and different effects with the photographs i took of the keys a few weeks ago.

I was pleased with the results because they came out really well and look really interesting visually.

I finally got access to the darkroom to make some photograms!

I’ve been wanting to do something other than just photograph my collection of keys for a while.

I used Ilford photographic paper and arranged the keys on a piece of glass beforehand, then slipped the paper underneath the glass carefully as it is easy to disturb the keys.

I then exposed the paper for 12 seconds to get a pitch black silouette.

My particular favourites are the photogrtams of two keys, this is representing passion between two people.

I found another photo of the same ex boyfriend. I found looking at this photo after so long quite difficult emotionally. I decided that I wanted to rip the photo up and re construct it.

This is to represent how im not picking up the pieces any more. A few people on my course have asked “why are you putting the pieces back together? Why dont you just burn them or throw them away?”

But I like the idea of re costructing the photograph and framing it for all to see. All of his flaws, spelt out so no one would make the same mistakes i did.

I felt that the teacup which contains the smaller photograph should be shattered and re constructed too. The cup and saucer in this case represents how i had to rebuild myself after the abuse.