Wednesday 5th September

Today was a trip up to London to see some galleries. It was a very interesting day looking at different photography pieces as I felt like I connected with the experience more because I am very familiar with photography,

The first gallery I went too was ‘The Photographers Gallery’, which is near Oxford Circus. There was a specific exhibition which was all black and white photography, it was across an entire floor and it was from a photographer called ‘Trish Murtha’. Although I am able to connect easily with photography, I did find Murtha’s work quite hard, only because it was quite a challenging concept, and I found it hard to connect with the singular pieces of photography, which is actually very unusual for me. I felt like her work connected with the theme ‘Descent’, because through some of the pieces of her work, I felt like there was a continuous theme of the descending society which is shown through the backgrounds, where the children are playing. I found it interesting that through the events of society and culture, that the children were still playing, seeming happy.

There was a piece of work that really confused me which I have included below. This is because the collection of photographs has a sense of theme which includes people, and the contrast is quite low. However, in the bottom left hand corner there is a picture of a garage, and the contrast is quite high. I felt as if this photograph is extremely out of place.

My group and I went to ‘The Brick Lane Gallery’, which I found quite interesting, and I did collect some leaflets that I have stuck into my sketch book. It was a very tiny gallery, I think it could be for new artists, I am not too sure. However, the theme felt very fantastical which I really connected with on a personal level.

We did travel to a gallery called ‘Calvert 22’, however when we got to the gallery, we were told it was closed due to the changing in exhibitions. Then we decided to travel to Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, which was also closed.

The last gallery we went too was ‘Autograph Gallery’. This was quite interesting to gain different perspective of how different people with different cultures go on their life. I was intrigued by it all. However, I am unable to feed it into my descent project, so I may be able to include it throughout the year.

Since getting home from London, I have planned out my sketch book, and wrote a to do list of the pages I need to complete for tomorrows independent study before the deadline on Friday.