Friday 23 July 2010

Day eight...

Today we had a day out of the studio, as a well deserved rest from all the typing from yesterday. We set off to Bank Street Arts, which I found out runs a residency program for local artists and holds exhibitions. From the outside of the building it does not strike you as a gallery but as soon as you set foot inside, the creative atmosphere screams out you. The gallery was originally a posh terraced housing, so the layout was amazing. What would have been the courtyard is a now a café, which is the central focus of the gallery, creating a feeling of community between all of the residences. Currently Susannah Gent's work is being exhibited, which contains film taxidermy, installation and sculpture. (see my arts award part a for more on this)

We also had a look at artist Bryan Eccleshall at work, who was in the middle of producing an installation in one of the gallery rooms at Bank Streets Arts. He was working around the concept of copying and had chosen to pick the 12 most popular postcards sold at Graves Gallery and traced them onto transparency film. He then projected them on the wall and tracing them again. Bryan explained how he was interested to see how the images had changed from the original due to them being copied twice. They came out very abstract and were very effective all together in one room. He liked the idea that they were quite compacted together around the walls because if they were the original images it would look too overcrowded. His work reminded me of huge pages from colouring in books.

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