all of our different mediums of artworks that were created within our work studio in queens road school of art room 06 had to be sent to centerspace gallery in : 6 Leonard Ln, Bristol BS1 1EA
JOURNAL: PLANNED DATES
PLAN: For my works i have chosen to select four closely similar sized MDf cuts of wood that are A2 sized each one had been primered with white on the front but not the backs that had to stay natural in case any drilling was required instead a method the colleges staff workshop had the idea of hanging the works up with a small square piece of wooden block that would be stapled directly half way above the top of the back of the mdf wood piece so then a hook can be fitted where a nail would be pinned up onto the exhibition wall and the works would then sit upon it. I had to use a small clump of blue tack at the bottom corners of the piece to stop the pieces from tilting and moving .
Also thanks to some curating ideas from the other artists these works were intended to sit onto a flat part of the wall at the front entrance but instead because these works were of self portraiture of myself they would look much better sitting on a sharp corner of the wall space and facing the front entrance so people can observe the works either from afar or up close.
Friday 18th-march: our exhibition of the Centerspace gallery was opened and are now ready to show off to the public of Bristol it will be running for four days
for the next starting week for set-up Wednesday, we needed to send all of our completed exhibiting works ready to be setting up down at the exhibition space. this means all works had to be fitted with something that could then be placed and hooked up onto the porcilin walls mine were nailed upon the walls each section stood at 10 feet high 6 foot wide.
Wednesday afternoon? : setting up and having a critique session with staff and students?with thoughts and ideas on what we believed worked best and to check to see if it was done according to curatorial plans!
Friday: private meeting, lots of people, students staff visited i wasn't able to come because i had tea far too late.
Sunday: instead I brought my parents along to observe the show and the works and I told them what each persons works was all about and what its meanings were ! also what they thought about each one. Overall they enjoyed the works but hated the alleyway it was too doggy for them and warned me not to be down there late alone.
Monday: sitting in on 12:00 - 6 pm time slot looking after the exhibition space !more than 100 came total number of people who visited was 600 estimate!
Tuesday :only stayed for a hour or two due to it just being me alone in the gallery! sorry for the inconvenience .
Wednesday : finishing cleaning and reverting the space to default settings! and packing up and taking everything back up to queens road school of art .
here are my four piece sequence of works that i had put up for the show :
separated each image had a title underneath each with a meaning to the theme movement :
" a thermal blur"by using lots of powerful bright colours to represent the thermal imaging from a photographic portrait also by adding white drips and scrapes to make the picture blurry and distorted.
"half me,moving away"criticised by people who viewed it as a split personality! this painting is the left hand side half of me painted realistically with HDR effective colour tones and just a static portrait, and the other half was it all being smeared dragged scraped and wiped away .this was my preferred portrait out of the four.
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"im feeling blurry "for this painting i had used an painting medium effect called fluid retarder this had help make the painting have a longer lasting dryness effect.then add water mixing to the acrylics and it turns the picture in a murky blur and also the dripping effects sit nicely on the surface.This gives a nice moving effect, but sadly it didnt help make my face look better, making some parts puffy and blobby also pretty out of proportion too even though it was still a nice impactful portrait painting.
"im dispersing"My final portrait painting was the last idea of the sequence of paintings i used each section of the coloured detail effects and add strong vibrant cutting edge line in between parts of the facial details.
masking tape was used to align and fill in the sections across the face.
