University of Brighton

The cardboard test of my gallery designs has been built. Instead of cardboard however I have used lining paper to make up the walls as it looks far neater and is more suitable for my crits next week. Unfortunately, I appear to have built myself a white cube space, which is not what I had intended. I have made some other changes that are intended to help me explore other ideas relating to my gallery space research. Instead of building the complete structure as originally planned I have build only half. The other half has become a floor plan of what I was going to build drawn directly onto the floor. I have been considering how my drawings could work as pieces, and one of the most appealing ideas was to transfer them to the floor in this way. I am also considering trying this with maps and routes around a gallery space.
Another change I have made is inside the ‘room’ that I have built. Rather than leaving the walls bare I have drawn (in the same tape as the floor drawing) some of my initial floor plans on the wall. Again this is to experiment with how these drawings could be used. I have also painted a square of a colour that I had been thinking of using for the original design ideas on the wall. I’m not sure that this does much to dispel the feeling of white cube within what I have made, but I am hoping that these pieces in their entirety can go some way to showing my process during the crits on Monday. This is particularly important to show at this stage as I am not presenting a fully formed idea, and am also not allowed to speak to explain my work until the end of my allotted time.
I am currently struggling with a title for the work, I will not separate the elements of the work for the crit, so the title must encompass everything as well as helping the viewers to understand what they are critiquing. Currently I think it will be along the lines of, ‘experiments with gallery space’ or ‘Gallery Design’.