Just been to the 'private viewing' (that sounds so cool) of the new maritime exhibition at the Ferens art gallery where I have a piece on display :D Was a really good night with free orange juice and small-bread-with-cream-cheese-and-strangely-wait-for-it-strawberries-on-top-things!! Of course I just stood next to my own work all night and earwigged to boost my own ridiculous ego :) No, really. For a little bit anyway. Heard some people say "She probably used one of them laser cutters" and I so wanted to scream that I didn't!! Only thing wasn't happy with is that each piece has a caption about its inspirations etc and mine was NOT what I had written AND had a spelling mistake so I look retarded. Tomorrow I'm going to see the person who organised it to get it changed so that it also says it is HAND cut as I had actually specified on the sheet, but nevermind :) After so much sophistication and culture, I went to Godfathers and got a large kebab.
How dare they make you look retarded! haha... I'm looking forward to seeing this exhibition tomorrow. It's all student work right? It looks like there's some really good artistic talent coming out of this city at the moment! Think we need some more art in the city though, not stuck in galleries but actually in the city. The window paintings in the empty shops down Whitefriergate is a start but they should use the whole shop space. I'm moving to Leeds in the summer and they've done some really cool stuff there. Check it out http://www.artinunusualspaces.co.uk. Anyway, good stuff!!! (^_^)
ReplyDeleteOoh! Just got back from the exhibition and I have to say I'm mighty impressed! There are some really amazing pieces in there. "Death of a whale" by Douglas Smelt is just so beautifully sad. I actually felt both physically and emotionally unsettled by it, but it had an aesthetic beauty that drew me in. Also liked "Hypnosis" by Glenn Davison, which was so ethereal and dream-like. I also really liked a piece by an artist called Hannah V Green, if my memory serves me. I found the piece incredibly captivating and the precision of the creative process is clearly evident. I thought the use of found objects really brought the piece to life. Good use of TS Eliot as well. Brilliant job!!! (^_^)
ReplyDeleteHahah you TOTAL suck up - flattery will actually get you everywhere in this life !! Glad you liked it though, I thought most of the exhibition was fantastic, some better than others but each to their own and all that. Had they changed the text yet? I've submitted a new caption that actually makes sense...
ReplyDeleteErm... I don't think they had changed the text, I'm afraid. I noticed at least one spelling mistake and it did read a bit strange. Unless it was your newly submitted caption?! If so, there were no spelling mistakes and it made perfect sense, haha...
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