London Trip!!!

-

Myself and the rest of the fine art year went on a trip to London recently and it really was very inspiring and circulated lots of new ideas into my mind. We visited a few sited throughout the day, the most important being the Bloomberg New Contemporaries at the South London Gallery, Hyper Mesh at the Assembly Point Gallery and the APT studios/gallery.

In the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, I enjoyed many of the pieces but I had a few close favourites. One of the first pieces I came across was by Jack Burton ‘Hotel, Night Shop, The Smell of Fig Trees’ a multimedia pieces that depicts a domestic scene of a bathroom layered with doodles of other random objects and gesture which have some personal connection to the space and artist. The mute colours of the piece also make it stand out, which is quite compelling actually.
Jack Burton

‘Displacement’ by Mohammed Sami was also one of my favourites from the day. An acrylic painting on linen that shows a two-prong plug lying the floor next to a three prong plug socket. A smart metaphor for being out of place. Although they serve the same purpose, they don’t quite fit, that ultimate feeling of being useless, therefore displaced.
Mohammed Sami

Inside of the same room as the piece by Sami there was quite an interesting curation of pieces one being ‘Hristo Smirnenski blok.70 entrance A fl.9 ap.23’ by George Stamenov. An old-fashioned box television was placed in the corner of the room on the floor, a looped video of a glass on a table slowly getting closer and closer to the edge and then turning into some strange shape. This piece plays on suspense and make me think quite a bit about the suspense in horror/thriller movies. Especially as the aesthetic of it matches those classic horror/thrillers such as silence of the lambs and psycho. Definitely my favourite piece from the day!
George Stamenov

I enjoyed a few pieces from the other exhibitions we went to such as the sculptures by Holly Hendry’s in Hyper Mesh, but I don’t think they relate as much to my practise as the pieces from the New Contemporaries. If you’re around London make sure to go and check them out!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Uncensored Revealed

-
Image
We finally revealed Uncensored this week and I can say that It was indeed quite stressful. I struggled quite a lot during this part of the unit, mostly because I had a nasty bit of artist block and just wasn’t able to formulate ideas into physical works. My tutor suggested just cracking on with some collages to get me back into the flow of working and this helped a lot. I was able to produce a few interesting pieces, influenced by classical Greco-Roman statue/sculpture. The results of these were unexpected and quite fluid as I did not plan anything, I just created in the moment, I found this way of working for me very strange but it produced new outcomes I am interested to explore. I also tried working with different materials such as image transfer onto wood and metal. After a few collages I went on to explore more with this and also incorporating paint into them, eventually moving onto canvas pieces, which pro...
Read more

Digital Works

-
Image
After finishing my essay on gender performativity, I was really inspired with what kind of context I want to include in my work. I have been trying for a long time to move away from the fluid painting and classical sculpture interests, but I couldn’t move anywhere as I had no idea where I wanted to go and so I was just floating around for the last few weeks working on more written work than physical pieces.  After finishing the essay, I started to look more into horror and sci-fi movies. I became really inspired by the visual settings of horror movies, Mostly the houses and the role they play in the settings of the movies. Horror has always been something consistent in my life, the thrill of the movie and the adrenaline rush it gives. The spooky and gloomy aesthetic takes me away into a different world that personifies these demons that cannot be seen in day to day life. Psycho is perhaps one of the best-known horror/thriller movies ever made, it has become a staple in th...
Read more

Cut-and-Shut @artsspaceportsmouth

-
Image
We had our first show of the year at Arts space Portsmouth. The show is Called Cut-and-Shut and had the amazing opportunity to go and be a part of the set-up team for the show. I am quite interested in curation and so I really enjoyed being able to go and help put up this show and get to know everyone’s work better. My Digital Collage was also chosen to be the artwork for the posters and flyers which is really exciting! The piece that I made for the show was a development from the previous work I have been making so far this year. I continued to develop the fluid painting and trying to evolve the technique to make the texture more gaseous, like that of a surface planet. I also used one of the wax pieces I had made and decided to incorporate this into the piece, merging 2D painting and 3D sculpture to create a multidisciplinary piece. I am quite happy with the piece and how I was able to set it up in the show, although I think that I could be more ambitious with my work ...
Read more