Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Due to being unable to get photos from my phone to my laptop I am unable to post pictures from the 1 day exhibition my course and I set up in uni. For this exhibition I presented work from my: grandmaster project, responding to a text and drawing transformation for which I exhibited two of my favourite life drawings I've done this year. I obviously exhibited my 'Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious' comic and my current work for the other two projects.
It was useful planning and seeing what my work would look like within the context of an exhibition. This is especially true for my current project which is the only one of the three that is really made for an exhibition or gallery setting. As I mentioned I don't have any photos from the exhibition itself but this piece didn't look too different  from this photo I posted before. The key difference was this time I could have a proper look at all the pieces as one because they were stuck on a wall (actually it was two tables on their side) and not laid out on a floor. This allowed me to see any problems with the piece/s. First off I don't like the 2nd picture on the second row and the 5th piece on the 3rd row. I just don't think they really gel with the flow of the rest of the work. I think the main reason for this is they both boldly use colour and colours that aren't in any other pieces. I'm going to redo these two. To a lesser extent
 I also have problems with 1st and 6th piece 2nd row and 1st piece 3rd row. This is mainly down to the way the silhouettes are done because I don't think they look natural or human enough. This isn't a major concern however because I still think they work alongside the other pages.
My other concern is that my way of laying out the work didn't quite have the impression I wanted it too. It just looked to small and rather ineffectual. Simply put there wasn't enough pages to create the impression I wanted it too. Due to this I'm going to try presenting my work in other ways maybe, with different layouts.


I want to finish by quickly talking about my comic in the exhibition. Obviously the comic is made to be a comic and not really to be exhibited so to make it more interesting and eye-grabbing in a exhibit context I presented the original larger pages of the comic with it. I think it's important to show things like this because often the process and original pieces of art are more interesting and important than the final product itself. That's what I think at least and is probably why most of my work is just sketchbook stuff because to me that is the most interesting and even best looking work.

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