trip to the photographers gallery

Exhibition review

1.  For primary source material in my work I went to the Photographers Gallery in London, it featured artists like Geraldo de Barros, Laura Letinsky, C.K.Rajan, Clunie Reid, Roy Arden, Peggy Franck. This exhibition was perfect for my brief as it includes subjects to do with collage as well as illustration. Collage was however the basis of this exhibition.     

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Roy Arden

 

Geraldo de Barros

 

Clunie Reid

 

Laura Letinsky

C.K.Rajan

These are some examples of the work featured there

4. One of my favourite pieces is the Geraldo de Barros collection, he uses photographs and manipulates them using collage, he cuts sections out and mismatches photographs. He even uses negatives and cuts into them just like the image on the photo paper. These are unfinished works from a later part in his life which allows the reader to image what he could have done next to these pieces of work, the photos are from his only family collection which brings an emotional side to this collection. 

My second favourite piece was by Roy Arden one of his pieces was called Sweep and to create this piece he collected all the pieces of paper he could find off his workshop floor and stuck the paper in a certain arrangement hence the name of the piece sweep. His pieces also illustrate political and psychological issues. 

5. One of my least favourite piece was by Clunie Reid his collecting of random drawings and images placed together to make a collage looked very child like. I don't think I liked it because it wasn't challenging enough when it came to taking bits from them and drawing it.  Reids work contrasts internet icons like smiley faces with the hand made marker pen drawings, her work makes you realise the visual culture that we have come to.

My second least favourite piece was the Laura Letinsky collection they were just so white, yet the pieces looked so natural because of how perfect the photographs were. A point that should be made about these pieces is the fact that her work hasn't been framed as the artist thought that the glare from the glass would take the naturalness away thus affecting the way that the viewer sees it. Without the glass it makes you want to reach in and touch it. Also a lot of natural items have been used in these pieces.

6. Overall I think the exhibition was rather good especially as it was rather relevent to the brief I have chosen. The collage workshop was a very good idea giving us creative ideas and games that we could use to create quirky collages. The exhibition also showed me that collages can be made out of literally anything and can in fact be made as a three dimensional or instalolation piece. I think that I will definately take the collage workshop work with me through my exam and maybe even create more of those collage games.

Here is the work from the workshop that I created. The collage made using the tomato as a head was made using a game which allowed one player to stick the first bit down and then hide it from the other player so they didn't know what it looked like, leaving a bit of the paper showing so the other player has a guidline of where to stick the next bit. The bird collage was just a random piece made by just cutting out random things to make a body of some sort:

These are the drawings that I drew on top of the collages, drawing from the artist's work from the exhibition. I haven't just drawn from one piece I looked at a range of pieces and combined them together onto one collage:

These are some examples of what it was like in the museum tour and during the workshop. These three photos have me in them looking at the work and working on my own. 

This image was taken during the workshop and here you can see me creating the exquisite corpsesusing the game consequences with someone else. I feel it is important to mention this as this is what I am mainly going to continue developing.