As part of my IPP module, I went to see an exhibition at the Mead Gallery in Warwick Arts Centre. The exhibition consisted of three seperate artists work;
1) Mel Brimfield, 'This is Performance Art' - I found this work extremely confusing! Her theme was the idea of performance art and the relative difficulty and unreliabilty of documenting this art form. To achieve this she created works across different medias including film and pop culture, mimicking the work of previous artists. It was only after many discussions with collegues that I finally started to see the very complex issues surrounding her work - a very talented artist and very inspiring in terms of her multimedia approach to her work.
2) Dickinson and McCarthy, 'Greenwich Degree Zero' - This piece I found particularly fascinating. The concept of this piece was to take an event in history (an attempted but failed bomb plot on the Royal Observatory in 1894) and change this history using cleverly rendered newspaper cuttings, adapted film and photos and journal pieces to create an alternate reality. Working in this way is fascinating and thought-provoking and created work that was faultlessly believable!
3) Tom Hunter, 'Untold Stories' - This again was a rather complex exhibition of work for me to understand at first as it seemed to have so many layers to it. This piece was a series of photographic canvases, all paired together to show themes of topic or colour or atmosphere perhaps. The themes that I percieved in this work were those of nostalgia and connections to home as these photos were taken in and around the artist's home town. Antoher theme was of myths and legends, as the artist used the work of other artists who had captured the images of myths and mythical gods etc. The photographs themselves were wonderful to simply look at and enjoy for their movement, colour and atmosphere!
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