#exhibition statement

[taketurn]

Turn 2015—16

From the beginning, this series involved the clandestine. Like a lot of unknowns, it was faced at first with a sort of mild panic. We regained composure quickly, sure—threw it on the pile of the inexplicable, and eased back into things. After that, we mostly stopped thinking about it actually. Only as we neared the close did we remember to wonder...

Anonymity? It's what the artist wanted— Preferring the We to the I. A part of the piece One could not bring with ego, just A part, and In turn, We turned together. Well, I For one Approved.

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These incredible artists (just a few outstanding pillars of our community, nbd) embraced the piece in ways I could not have foreseen. All the while I followed along its twists, considered its turns, coaxed and supported its evolution.

Then Ever between The gradient Time We walked On paths unknown.

With each step, I've attempted to express the life of the thing. These written pieces developed an improvisational narrative, imbued with my own questions and revelations. A lot has happened in a year.

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Turn has been my ode to collaboration and intention, to trying something new and seeing it through. It has challenged and rewarded me. It has been a celebration of art and of a community.

With it, we circled the sun.

And in that time, we Planted seeds Stayed afloat Expressed a delicate fury Unpacked everything, made a copy, and shoved it all back in Glimpsed the beyond in surrender Had a taste and took a trip with the moon Got weird somewhere, gave directions Saw some God Told and heard tell Would you believe if I told you we folded Time itself Donned all of it Then witnessed the greatest fiction of them all: The End

[dppisabellaphotogs-blog]

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Exhibition Statement

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Isabella Seal’s most recent project explores the emotive response one has to a space. A mundane yet common environment, such as a garden can be found all over the world, in many different forms. By bringing this environment into focus, the unnoticed becomes the subject. This project comments on the idea of tranquillity and sanctuary of one’s personal space. Her project is photographed in a garden she grew up in which enables Isabella to project her own emotive response onto the images and create a deeper understanding of the connection one has to a particular space.

This work is still untitled as I am really not sure what to call it!

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[ellenroseinteractiveart]

Micro-writing for my exhibition statement?

Micro-writing is typically how gang members respond to each other in prisons and usual how they inform another of there skills, like a gang member CV.

Through inspiration from an artwork in ART14 using magnifying glasses I thought how this would be an interesting idea for my exhibition statement. 

It actively gains intrigue from the exhibition audience. It also creates this whole aspect on the human behaviour where the 'fear of missing out' will kick in and others will wonder what the person with the magnifying glass is doing.

Also only having one person at a time read it with give the statement a sense of importance and speciality.

After being a room steward in a gallery for a year and a half I can safely say that not many people actually read the exhibition statements or statement about the relating art piece. Sorry to burst anyones bubble.

Therefore,  hopefully my unique idea will gain the interest and raise awareness into how key these statements can be. Take the time out to read them... you might learn a thing or two!

[ftnart]

On Activism (draft of my exhibition statement)

Activism: (noun) a doctrine or practice that emphasizes direct vigorous action especially in support of or opposition to one side of a controversial issue

This work is and is not an activist work.

It does not desire to argue with you or be loud. It's not holding up signs and picketing on the street.

But:

This work’s agenda is to open dialogue. It draws on intimacy - the intimacy of conversations, of bedrooms, of relationships, of quiet, captured moments - because the empathy and emotion engendered by intimacy connect on a level that words and activism can’t touch.

It’s a work made because it needed to be made, a work that exists as a contribution to the conversation surrounding queerness and heteronormativity. It’s a work that’s queer because it’s not content to be heteronormative; it’s a work that’s queer because I am.

[katiebroome]

Returning Home

I have been working with the themes of Memory and documentary photography this year. The idea of recording something that needs to be remembered, or going back to a place that might have changed over the years to record the changes is very interesting to me.

My Grandmother was born and grew up in Birkenhead, a place I only visited myself for the first time in my first year of University. My Grandmother has not been to Birkenhead for many years, but she used to take my Mother to visit my Great-grandmother there when my Mother was a child. They both have many fond memories of the area. This selection of photographs is taken from trips I have taken myself to the area in which my Grandmother lived and places she visited as she grew up. The captions on the photographs are taken from my Grandmother on her first thoughts when each of the places in the photographs was mentioned to her. This project so far has been very interesting for me as I have been able to put my own personal and empirical knowledge into it. I have also been quite moved by things I have experienced while photographing the area and when talking to my Mother and Grandmother about their lives and experiences. I was very moved when I first visited Birkenhead in my first year as I found out that the house my Grandmother had grown up in was no longer there. It must feel strange to know that a place that holds so many memories no longer exists. Each time I go, I feel more and more like I belong. I have found that a place that I barely know feels very much like home due to the family ties I have with it. There are many more places for me to document to develop my project further.