A virtual exhibition lead by our lecturers as a safe means to display and promote our work. We were each asked to select 10 images or film production of your work, including dimensions, texts, titles, and links to social medias etc. Seeing as this was a virtual exhibition I wanted to promote my favoured, most laborious and strong pieces for the page. The titles, dimensions, mediums and artist statement is included below if you wish to review it. I had spent the week prior promoting my fellow peers and my upcoming takeover, following a poster I had made informing the audience of the exhibition title 'Through The Lens.' and how they may go about contacting me.
Each image had a similar ratio in regards to framing, depending on the size of the image as to install a sense of professionalism for the exhibition.
The virtual exhibition was great way for students outside of our class to see what works the second years had been up to, and may have brightened a few peoples days given the current mundane reality we stuck in. Seeing as this was supposedly a virtual exhibition, a live outcome, it could have been taken more seriously. The social media marketing was non-existent, there was little to no promotion in regard to the second year take over and the posts were arrange one during the day the other in the evening, unfortunately my takeover was during a day slot and seemed to get lost amongst my peers work with a small number of likes. There are peak times for social media, especially during the evening, unfortunately those of us who had had out posts during the day were for better choice of words, swept under the rug.
I was especially looking forward to this "live outcome" as I had spent a considerable amount of time selecting and arranging my images, editing my artist statement and creating my poster... I even conducted an online poll show four different poster edits asking my followers to pick which looked best as a viewer. I wish there had been more urgency on promoting the takeover as we didn't get to exhibit our work last year due to the coronavirus, which of course can not be helped, but when you are promised a virtual exhibition, only for half of the class to be disregarded due to missing out on social peak times and no promotion? The whole thing just lay flat for me unfortunately. It was discouraging to see other creatives within the university being extensively promoted over all three creative pages, but our takeover was neglected. None of the insights were used, no peak time uploading... None of these things were taken into consideration.
Image Dimensions & Mediums -
Images 1&2 are of 'Clouded Iris.' - Graphite and charcoal over MDF with an affixed alginate plaster casted hand.
Dimensions: 50x40 cm
Image 3 - 'Seize Colour.' - Expanding foam, acrylic, pearlescent pigment and spray paint followed by two affixed alginate plaster casted hands. Dimensions: 96x50cm
Images 4 and 5 - 'Courageous Carp.' 75+ hours of hand stitching, a monochromatic, hand stitched Koi Carp over canvas, followed by the word 'courage.' stitched in braille.
Dimensions: 30x25.5 cm
Image 6 - 'Enigma.' sphinx digital hybrid lino print series featured on the walls of New Yorks SHRINE gallery.
Dimensions: a4 21x29.7cm
Image 7 - 'Untitled.' digital hybrid lino print series featured on the walls of New Yorks SHRINE gallery, this was successfully uploaded and accepted for group show 5 on the SHRINE webpage.
Dimensions: a4 21x29.7cm
Image 8 - Part 1 to the 'Transmit.' series. Digital hybrid lino print.
Dimensions: a4 21x29.7cm
Image 9 - 'Black Out.' Digital hybrid lino print
Dimensions: a4 21x29.7cm
Image 10 - Part 2 to the 'Transmit.' series. Digital hybrid lino print.
Dimensions: a4 21x29.7cm
Instagram Caption/ Artist Statement -
The subject matter represented within my work questions our relationship with perception. Themes of vulnerability and fragility contort within my assemblage of work. A great deal of my work mimics an artistic portrayal of the characteristics inhabited by the lens of a visually impaired individual. Examples of this can be seen through the vast majority of my prints, exhibiting the nature of binocular diplopia - doubled vision and the cataracts, alongside the agile nature of macular degeneration. I create juxtapositions using surreal and somewhat ambiguous imagery to conjure a metaphysical response toward my secondary collated research. I employ an automatism manner of working, allowing my work to be genuine within its lucidity and palette.
My work bares a synchronic attitude to the use of colour, allowing vivid imagery to protrude from the surface, systemic interactions with no predetermined thought. A provocation toward the viewer, permitting them to establish their own narrative through the use of equivocal compositional elements, I find it to be particularly important for my work to inspire a seminar and stir interest amongst the audience. The equivocation of the works orchestrated encourage the subconscious to deviate and the body to be immersed within synergistic activity. Ultimately warranting a response, within the present, the viewers perceptions become skewed by the use of surreal imagery. There is a dismissal of preconceived narratives, instead the audience are engulfed within a body of conspicuous work and multisensory platforms.
My aim is to eliminate the discriminatory attitudes of the industry, we as artists have a responsibility to work together to be more inclusive, offering multisensory and process orientated projects to the public, vouching for the visually impaired and partnering with associations such as The North East Blind Society and Chilli Studios; working consciously to make your work more accessible to the blind will allow the industry to grow and flourish, our time is now.
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