My studio piece from my second year at university has pride of place …. in my dining room! Not ideal location as the light is limited, but the height stops it going into my upstairs studio space. I plan to finish this in the next few weeks.
Month: May 2016
Nottingham Contemporary – Simon Starling
Works on display at Nottingham Contemporary include Starling’s famous ‘Blue Boat Black’ (1997) in which
he disassembled a Victorian museum case, using its materials to build a boat that then he set alight following a fishing trip, making charcoal to cook the fish that he’d caught. The charred remnants that now constitute this work are paired in this exhibition with a new commission; ‘Project for a crossing’ (2015-16), presents a new boat before its journey, or as Starling describes, ‘an object in the middle of its life.’ For this work, Starling extracted magnesium from 1,900 litres of mineral-rich water from the Dead Sea. His intension following the exhibition is to sail the boat back across the sea from which it was built – a simple gesture made intensely complicated by the political implications of crossing borders between Israel and Jordan.
This artistic gesture of charting objects through journeys and intercepting their lifecycles reoccurs throughout the exhibition. This idea of transposition is also executed in ‘Red, Green, Blue Loom Music’ (2015-16), which takes the sound of punch-card driven looms from a factory in Turin and translates them into a musical score. The work is presented in the gallery in two adjoining rooms: the first showing a film of the looms at work and the second housing a pianola which, when the clicking weaving comes to a stop, replies in a bubbling exuberant melody.
Starling also looks at the relationship between industry and the arts. He proceeds to take minute fragments from archival photographs depicting the former lives of these cultural facilities and magnify them into large-scale installations – half-tone dots become a precise arrangement of black blown glass orbs on the gallery floor (‘La Source’, 2009);
silver particles are magnified by a million to become somehow anthropomorphic, sculptures (‘The Nanjing Particles’, 2008).
Platform16. Stage 4. Gage Gallery
After a, successful I have to say, but grim, cold and very damp January exhibition here; I swore I wouldn’t return! But as this is part of the Platform16 exhibition tour …. here are my pieces in situ at the Gage Gallery. 
Close up detail. Thank you and photo credits to Susan Burley. 
Shipping out
Last piece of my work was removed from Arundel Gate Court studios today. Instead of having pride of place in a gallery ….. It’s in temporary storage in a window factory!
I hope to retrieve this work during the summer and continue my drawing.
Screen print workshop
Source: Screen print workshop
Unit Seventeen. Stage 6. The Symposium
As a group we were required to document our exhibition, the process leading up to its opening and what we took from the experience.
We explained our decisions regarding; the venue, funding, the group as a whole, the exhibition name and publicity.
We showed an understanding of the organisational aspects of curating our own exhibition.
Myself and the other members of the group explained about our exhibition piece and our practice. We were also able to articulate what we gained and achieved in our own work through the process. Through exhibiting I now know what I would like to further in my site responsive work.
Unit Seventeen invigilator
It was good to have some help in our exhibition, welcoming the public to the Forum gallery space!
Em Smith 