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We are putting on a fund raiser for our end of year show! Come and buy some prints and enter the raffle!!

I recently had my image of the Red Shoes in an exhibition at the Viewfinder Gallery in Greenwich. It is the first time I have exhibited outside of the university organizing an exhibit. The image was popular and got a good reception which gave my confidence in my photography a really big boost.

I also got the images from the Hawes and Curtis advertising shoot I assisted on and the images look really good. I think background that Lucy and Chirag built the night before worked really well. They make a really good team and are always fun to work for.

In my own photography I have been looking at printing on glass and mirrors for one project and starting my final project. I have done one shoot for the final project but it is not quite what I am looking for and have two more shoots in mind to do next week. I just need the time first! Things have been crazy with waitressing work and trying to fit uni work in too and doing an internship with Louise at the Viewfinder Gallery. Thankfully Louise has said that I can cut back my time at the gallery until things at uni have calmed down a bit. I feel it’s a shame I have to do that because I really enjoy working there but honestly, university is so important and there isn’t too long left there.

Anyways, I am off to do a shift now.

I have a very small exhibition tomorrow based on the work that everyone who went on the uni trip to Berlin took. I am really excited as I feel the work I have put up is a starting point for a project I wish to spend alot of time and money on once I finish university. It is based on the experiences of people with the Berlin Wall. Apart from that I have been trying to earn some money and carry on doing uni work while helping organise the end of year show. It has been very crazy recently.

SO… after yesterday’s post I didn’t really get to finish because I started so late and was slightly… well… feeling lazy, and I didn’t upload any photos. So here are some from the day.

Tomas Saraceno, Observatory, Air-Port-City, from the bottom. We didn’t win the lucky dip to go to the top but it was still pretty interesting from the bottom side. Luckily it was sunny, it did become a litte too hot though since it was directly in the sunshine at the time. It’s almost a shame they close it when it rains, I would have liked to experienced the inside during the rain.

I took this on the walk back to the station. It’s a little generic but I still like it. It’s of the fountains outside the Royal Festival Hall. There were loads of people running in and out of the fountains and having fun, even though it was around 5 in the evening and it was slightly cold as evidence by Matt’s coat…

Today my friend Matt and I went to the Psycho Building exhibit at the Hayward Gallery. We went a bit late in the afternoon and had to line up for a little but I liked it.

The piece I liked the best was Fallen Star by Do Ho Suh.

The first impression I got while walking up to the piece is of the tornado from the Wizard of Oz. The smaller of the houses is a model of a Korean house the artist lived in while growing up and the larger of the houses is a replica of the house he moved to while studying in America.

I thought that this was an amazing visualization of a culture clash. My friend, although liked the piece visually, thought that it could be improved upon. I think that my background was part of the reason I felt this way about this piece.

There was a large que for the Geltin’s Untitled with Unrestricted View so we didn’t go on the boats :(.

I think that if I had ever read a H. P. Lovecraft novel then the In  Memory of H P Lovecraft installation may have made a bit more sense. By this point in the exhibit Matt and I had decided that the programme with the artist reasoning behind the work was useless as art should be personally to each person. And I still haven’t read about it yet. Nor the Air-Port-City which was a pretty interesting experience.

It is getting rather late now though, so I think I will leave the rest until tomorrow.

Nite.

As I was walking to my interview at the museum I realized that this summer there were some really interesting exhibits on in London, so I decided I would become really cultured and go to lots of museums and galleries.

Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book – V&A

The Story of the Supremes from the Mary Wilson Collection – V & A

Street & Studio: An Urban History of Photography – Tate Modern

Skin+Bones: Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture – Somerset House

It is a week till the end of term at university and everything is due in. I think I am pretty much on top of things. I have finished my Visual Studies essay which was a pain to do. It hasn’t really been my best or favorite subject. Also I have got my final images for Digital Photography done. Now I have to print them at A3 and produce a portfolio with an evaluation and do the evaluation for the website as well. I am actually kind of surprised at my marks so far for web design. They are the highest marks I have ever gotten for an essay. Writing really isn’t my strong point. I’m more of a practical person than an academic one.

I am going to Gatecrasher this weekend and I was really aiming to have all of my work done by then, most of it is done, or at least the large bits that would take my most of the time so I am pleased. If I am also honest I thought that Gatecrasher was next weekend, and had a rather rude awakening on Sunday when I was told otherwise!

Also last Sunday I went to the Life Before Death Exhibit at the Wellcome Gallery in Euston with my mom. It was an interesting exhibit with collaboration between a reporter and a photographer who spent time in a hospice in Germany interviewing terminally ill patients about how they felt about their death. Unsurprisingly, the text was very powerful. The images were very confrontational. They were close up images only showing the face in high contrast. You could make out almost every wrinkle on the older people and the details of the younger subjects were very full of sorrow. The text ranged from anger at having life taken away from them to what they were holding onto and what their families felt and hoped for them. A few subject said they felt at peace with their impending death and were able to accept it after a time. The photos were taken in the last days or months of their life and the day that died. When I spoke to one of my teachers, Carol, who had gone to see a talk about the exhibit she mentioned how she had spoken with people ranging from nurses and doctors to embalmers and bereavement councilors. I think it is interesting to note the type of people who were interested in this exhibit. Not only artists and people interested in art but people who deal with death everyday. Although everyone encounters death within their lives it is something that most people find really difficult to talk about and wish to avoid thinking about, but it is also one thing that everyone has in common with each other.

I am deep and a cliché.