February 2017
I had the opportunity to visit London to visit galleries, Publishers, and Printers.
London Professional Practice & Employability Trip 2017
The itinerary is below. We will travel to London on Wednesday evening, and be back in Manchester on Friday evening.
Wednesday 22nd Feb
1500hrs - Meet with External Examiner (Matthew Lindsey - UCA) - ROOM TBC - All students MUST attend this!
1800hrs Meeting- Manchester Piccadilly (under departure boards)
Depart for London Euston (Exact Time tbc but you must arrive at 1800 to collect your allocated ticket!)
Thursday 23rd
9:00- Metro Imaging
11:00 - The Barbarcian Gallery
14:00 - Free time
18:00 - The National Portrait Gallery
Friday 24th
11:00 - Tate Modern - Wolfgang Tillmans
13:00 - Mack Publishing
16:00 - Free time
18:30hrs - Meet at London Euston - Upper Concourse (Leon's restaurant)
Depart for Manchester Piccadilly (Exact Time tbc up you must arrive at 18:30hrs to meet)Metro Imaging
(Metro Imaging, 2017)
http://www.metroimaging.co.uk/professional-photographic- printing
Metro imaging is a professional printing service which offers to print, retouch, and frame, mount, exhibiting services and scan your work. Metro print is unique in that they will try to print on anything. when I say anything I mean anything, wood, carpet, plastic and even bricks. if you want to try to print on a material they will try. This was one the main reasons at the time I was interested in going on the trip as before the trip I still wanted to create work about litter and presenting my work on the floor for the degree show. So the opportunity to see what they can print on was interesting to me. At Metro, they work very closely with their customers and offer advice where they see fit. This relationship could be beneficial now with my degree show work but also if I wanted to go into photography after university than this would beneficial as well.
The Barbarican Gallery
We visited the Barbarican which used to be a housing complex before it became a gallery for the arts.
https://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=19949
(Jackson,L 2017)
(Jackson,L 2017)
(Jackson,L 2017)
Richard Mosse Incoming
The main exhibtion on at the time In the Curve gallery was Incoming by Richard Mosse. The conceptual documentary photographer and Deutsche Börse Photography Prize winner Richard Mosse created an immersive multi-channel video installation in the Curve gallery.Mosse worked with cinematographer Trevor Tweeten to create the three-screen installation, which is filmed in monochrome and set to a specially composed soundtrack by Ben Frost. The 52-minute-long artwork features footage of refugees from around the world. The three screens make you as an audience member feel imersed in the footage and challenges you as a viewer to find your own narratives and understanding of what is happeing. The harrowing footage is hard to watch but gives you a real incite into what happens to a refugee when they escape their home country.
(Mosse,R 2017)
The National Portrait Gallery
http://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/twppp-2016/exhibition/
The National Portrait gallery has portraits from the tudor times to the present, We went to vist the entries and winners of Taylor Wessing Photographic Prize winner.The Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2016 is the leading international competition, open to all, which celebrates and promotes the very best in contemporary portrait photography from around the world.The winner of the prize receives a prize of £15,000.
Below is the winning potrait which recieved the £15,000 prize.
Claudio Rasano, is a swiss-italian photographer born in 1970, Basel, Switzerland. The portrait, which is part of the series called Similar Uniforms: We Refuse to Compare was taken in Johannesburg, South Africa and focuses on issues of preserving individuality in the context of school uniforms. The image is taken in a school photograph style which is what made me think it wasn't anything specila at first but with statment accompanying it has more poweful message about identiy. However i still not sure if it is worth of the prize, it just doesn't capture my attention but that is my opinion.
Tate Modern - Wolfgang Tillman and Other Exhibitions
We went to vist Tate Modern to look at Wolfgang Tillman show in particular but also we had the opportunity to see other exhibits in the Tate Modern gallery.
(Jackson,L 2017) (Jackson,L 2017) (Jackson,L 2017)
The first image is from the Wolfgang Tilman show , his work was very hapazard there was prnts that stretched the length of one wall and there was tiny prints seen in the first image. The haphazard presentation of work was to relfect the theme of his exhibtion which was about life. If you think about life isn't straight forward and the same therfore the haphaxard style of hanging work reflect that notion that life isn't striaght forward.
The second image was from another exhibtion at the Tate which i found really interesting, the tower is made from different radios stacked ontop of each other. their are modern radios to old radios all next to and top of each other. But all the radios were playing different stations all at the same time. Now you think this would be quite noisy but they were played at the same volume so as enter the area where tower was it sound like a big conversation with lots of people chatting to each other. Also the radios lit up at different moment but in order that light appeared to climb from the bottom to the top. It was visually and orally striking.
The last image was taken in the turbine hall the main entrance of the Tate modern.The installtion uses music and sound designed by Nicolas Becker with Cengiz Hartlap which blares out,so everyone can here it due to microphones placed in and around the building. The Turbine’s light boxes flash in time,which creates a temporary cinema space which gracefully drops down from the ceiling and a shoal of inflatable fish float swim past. The effect is quite spectular the way all the element wokr together to creat this effect.It is a really immersve exprience looking at it.
Mack Publishing
(Mack Publishing, 2017)
http://www.mackbooks.co.uk/about/
Mack is an idependant art and photography publishing house, based in London whom we went see and they talk to us about what they do.They have worked and created books for well renowned photographers such as Alex soth , Thomas Strurth and Antony Gormley. The books they have produced are very much down to the aritst decison as no two books are same. Mack publishing may advice on how and what to put in the book but the decision is up to the artist themselves.
the three images below showcase are just some of the books we saw whilst we were at Mack. The first image is the book version of the Richard Mosse exhibition at the Barbican. The book was screen grabs from the film footage shown at the Barbican, the paper choice ans style of book reflecrt the ifra red camera used by Richard Mosse.
Thesecond image was one of the cheapest made books, This book Shelter island was shown to use as it was made by simple stiched binding on cheaper quality photo paper to show that it depends on the work and the artist to determine the outcome of how the book will look. The last image is a book called i love snakes, the book pictured woment holding snakes.But on the back cover the book says i hate snakes repated in the same style as the front cover. But the most interesting thing about this book was the texture and colour of the book which looked and felt like snake skin relfecting the subject matter inside.
(Jackson, 2017) Jackson, 2017) (Jackson, 2017)
No comments:
Post a Comment