Two Faced Art

Through this blog i have come the realize my art has two audiences: the gallery audience and the site specific audience (any tom dick or harry). Both i find as exciting as each other...

Find an Embossed Paving Slab in Leeds!

My knickers fossils should be site specific, each made for the particular site (missing slab). They should be the same colour, material and should fit exactly. (Unlike my prototype: above)

I want the audience to stumble across them in and around Leeds. I am going to be furthering this in the future. Perfect for a none gallery art piece. I would send press releases to the yorkshire post to gain press coverage. Sounds fun doesn't it!

Embossed Prints= White Cube

I see my prints in a gallery setting because they are clean and crisp. They need good lighting and white walls to highlight this. The audience will view the piece better in this setting i feel. The White Cube, Mason's Yard, London would be perfect.

Google:- Torch on Face

The negative space of my embossing prints represent the body, and like the body there are good and bad ways to flatter. The lighting is crucial because my prints are beautiful and i want the lighting t0 enhance this.

Upwards lighting is very unflattering (torch on face above)

Whereas downwards lighting on each print is flattering because no harsh shadows are formed. so this is how i will light my prints. 

Gillian Wearing Knickers

Everything is connected in life 1993

Gillian Wearing's piece made me think of how the audience may view my prints, they should relate to a particular style of underwear, this is the reason i chose a variety of knickers for a series of prints.

Erin's Knickers is a photograph i took to illustrate the audience in a way is a part of the work.

(A detail of Erin's Knickers)

Bowery Exhibition Opening 07-05-09

Is a small cafe to walk into which was very busy because of the folk band entertainment. The gallery upstairs had two rooms to exhibit artworks and artist studio next door which was way too clean and tidy for my liking.. art means process and mess to me and clean= gallery space.Work was exhibited one artist per room this piece above talking about city life/structures..The next room artist used embroidery on canvas. All in all we stayed for 15 mins which I thought was quite generous considering there was no one there!

..Most interesting piece for me was on the stairwell, I liked the little illustrations on old postcards. For me wasn't a memorable opening. There wasn't any audience interaction which I expected for the opening night. This made me think of the opening for our exhibition DNA next week.. 

And guess what ..Our exhibition had been posted on the notice board!

Our opening night has been thought through carefully so that the audience attending will remember the event. For starters our exhibition opening is unique because it has stages. The audience will start at the hospital exhibition, move onto the college show which will provide food and drinks and entertainment (a guitarist maybe) and then for drinks in town. I'm excited already!

Do I Need a Paving Slab Proposal?

If you want to produce an art piece to be outside the gallery setting you with need to produce a proposal to the land owner, the commissioner or the council. These are some proposals artists produced for the art installation at Ebbsfleet in Kent (aka Angle of the South);

Rachel Whiteread:

Christopher Le Brun:

Richard Deacon:

Daniel Buren:

Mark Wallinger (winner):

Where do i exhibit my paving slab?

If i where to replace a paving slab in the city centre i would need to speak to the council which would mean putting in a proposal and may become a long process.

or

I could wait to find a missing paving slab somewhere. I have seen a missing slab in Hyde Park but in this location it is mainly students passing so i wouldn't get that mixture of audience that i could from the city centre location. But does this matter? This location would be a lot easier.

(My paving slab still a little damp)