You won`t be hearing from me for another week or so!
Unfortunately, I`ll be going to Berlin for a week with University.
This is supposed to be a cultural, Museum and Gallery visit around Central Berlin. I`m a little bit scared about going considering all of the recent attacks over seas, and we do have to be careful whilst navigating our way through Berlin as a large group.
I`ve been worried about going for a while now, so that`s why I`ve avoided posting about it up until now.
I`ll be going away this Thursday, and I`ll be staying there for five nights and 6 days visiting galleries and Museums (also, a possible concentration camp). Then after that It`ll be preparing for a Presentation, I`ll be writing up an Essay and producing my practical studio work.
So this was just a short update, to tell everyone that I`m going away again for a while; but I shall be back! Hopefully with a hugeeeee update and plenty of photos to accompany that. You should also be able to find all of those photos on the facebook page once I`ve returned.
Until then, you can find all of my newest pieces of work on Deviantart and Instagram.
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Sunday, 26 February 2017
Sunday, 19 February 2017
February, 19th; London Trip!
So then guys, I`ve been in the studios quite a bit lately; from now on we`re just in there all of the time without fail, 9-5pm. Then afterwards I have theory work to be doing, so really i just spend a lot of time researching... That`s whenever my laptop decides to start working. Andddd yes, my laptop has broken and freezes almost everytime i click on something so I`m really struggling with trying to do my research an my blogging and my deviantart and my redbubble.As you can see, the list goes on.
So, There is a loooot of stuff that I need to catch up on once again!
There will be updates on Redbubble soon, I just need to load up my new images onto my boyfriends laptop to then work on Redbubble.
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| Gerhard Richter. |
Last week, on Friday we took a quick trip to London.
When I say quick, I mean that we left at 6am, and then got back into derby at 00:30am. So it was a very long day for all of us.
We began by following and itinerary that our lecturer had made for us, the small little Irish guy that likes to drink quite a bit.
I basically spent the whole day with Mel and Rachel. We began at the Tate Modern, I haven`t been since they added the large 10 floor extension so I didn`t want to miss the artist exhibitions rooms in there. We spent about 3 hours in there in total, and I managed to get into the two paid exhibitions. The Robert rauschenberg exhibition and The Radical Eye exhibition.
Whilst walking around, I did see a lot of sculptures and paintings from the last time that I went to the Gallery which was about a year or two ago.
Walking around, I think i was more interested in the video/performance pieces of art work that I saw. Mainly because they seemed to of made more sense, a lot of the work there is just paint on a canvas, or a badly illustrated story that isn`t coming through as effectively as the video pieces of work.
I do wish we had a lot longer to walk around there, some of the work was really moving and powerful and the work displayed by Gerhard Richter did make me cry actually... Sado.
The Rauschenberg exhibition did make me cry, and so did the Gerhard Richter... Then later on, the Anselm Kiefer exhibition over at a different gallery site.
It`s just that when you study an artist, and you`ve looked at there work online and in books and you`ve studied some of their most famous pieces of work; seeming them in person is just amazing, and the best experience you could possibly have. I`ve never actually cried at a art exhibition aswell, so I did feel quite stupid walking around this gallery fanning my eyes so no one else could see me cry. Same with Gerhard Richter, that wasn`t even a paid exhibition; but still seeing the sheer scale of the work and the textures up close moves you.
Look, I basically liked their work.
After the Tate Modern, we had a 30 minute walk to the White Cube Gallery, and our lecturer almost got us lost twice whilst we where heading over there. That was another extremely moving exhibition to witness in person. He`s another artist who i`ve studied for a very long time, and my eyes where watering the whole time i was walking around there. He had the whole run of the gallery, which seems small on the outside but it`s huge when you get in there.There was a mixture of side rooms that where darkly light up and eerie to walk around, then about three rooms that where full of bright natural light that really showed you the proper colors of the pieces of work that where in there.
It was all very dramatic and set up in a way that really showcased every detail of his work.
It was another very moving exhibition, it`s one of those ones where you cant really put into words the size and the effect it actually has on you. I would of preferred it if it was quieter whilst we where walking around but there was about 51 of us who went in total. If you can get there and it`s quite, you`ll feel the full effect of the art work, and hopefully you`ll get a much better viewing experience in total.
There really isn`t a way to explain the artwork in the very back room, That`s where the large scale wall pieces where kept, and you could see all of the amazing colors that the melted metals had created and the layering that had been taken off to reveal the base layers... just ugghhh, it was good.
I couldn`t shut up telling my mum about the exhibition when I got back home, I think that was the show that made the whole day amazing, I had no idea he was even exhibiting in London prior to applying and paying for the trip there.
After the Tate Modernand the Anselm Kiefer Mel, Rachel and I began to venture off around london.
Luckily we didn`t get lost.
Rachel knew what she was doing with the tubes and stuff, so she was basically our navigator for the day.
We managed to also got to the Whitechapel Gallery, The Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery.
According to what we hared from everyone else, they managed to go to three galleries in total since they followed the lecturer around for the day I`m serously happy that we did agree to go off for the day by ourselves, I feel like I spent a lot more time admiring the artwork rather than rushing around to find another gallery.
Whitechapel Galley was strange, and we only went to see one exhibition there; and that was the Guerrilla Girls.An anomynous group of artists, who are all female and all where guerrilla masks to keep their identities a secret. The group of woman make controversial art based off of surveys and statistics that they collect from galleries and museums worldwide.
They even had a large piece on the floor which name and shamed about 200 galleries and museums that rejected their survey and never sent a response back to them, after that there was about 100-130 (i think) that actually responded and answered the surverys.
I`d never even heard of the group before, but after seeing their work it`s shed a whole new light on the artworld, they`re sexist and do not want women to exhibit alongside men. Which is scary, it`s scary to think that there are 33 people on my course, only 5 of those are men and the rest are women. So out of 33, at a typical gallery, only those 5 men would exhibit together.
That idea is just scary.
I didn`t get any pictures at the national portrait gallery, Since you`re not supposed to take pictures in there anyways.
Then in the Tate Britain gallery, I took hardly any images as a lot of the work in there was sculptural, there where two paid exhibitions and I couldn`t take pictures in there.
But yeah, the Whitecube and the Tate Modern where the most moving exhbitions to go to, and i would love to go again.
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Saturday, 4 February 2017
February 4th; Return To University, Where Have I Been?
It`s been over a month now since I last updated, which I promised myself I wouldn`t do... AGAIN!
I`ve been back at University for 2 weeks now, tomorrow will start my third, but that`s two weeks out of a very short semester of 12 weeks. I haven`t updated at all for over a month as half way through my little Christmas break, My lecturer had e-mailed us with our module handbook with a large list of everything that we should have finished by the time we get back to University.
So in reality, I was picking up loads of shifts at work (and I got £10 each shift I covered)!! Which meant that I had quite a bit of money saved up for when I started University again late January. Then along with all of the shifts I was picking up, I was trying to write two essays, get my journal work completed, produce some photographic work as a source material to generate ideas for the project and then begin producing some kind of 3D work that would help me produce even MORE work back at University.
Eventually everything linked up together and I got all of my work done alongside my actual job at the care home.
Overall my lecture is pretty happy with the ideas that I`ve got, wasn`t too keen on some small sample pieces of work I did; he said they seemed a bit too accurate, like I had placed everything purposefully and he didn`t like that too much.
The journal he`s happy with, it`s slightly bulging however and he would rather it be as flat as possible; it`s because of all of the textured pieces of work I`ve been putting in there to show as to what I`m going to be working with and how I`ll be working with my materials that I collected.
Along with the studio project, that is basically like the main module which is called Primary Practice, we have another project that we have a four hour lecture for on a Wednesday morning called Concepts and something... I can`t believe I`ve already forgotten as to what it`s bloody called.
It`s honestly the worst module I`ve ever done, and I mean through school and sixth form too, cause I feel so stupid; For Wednesday we have to discuss a piece of text and I can`t make heads or tails of it and it`s super frustrating to try and read.
I`ll be trying to get everything back to normal, I`m not doing quite well with my time management outside of University and it`s been weeks since I`ve seen my own bloody dad!
I`ll get it together at some point, I hope!
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I`ve been back at University for 2 weeks now, tomorrow will start my third, but that`s two weeks out of a very short semester of 12 weeks. I haven`t updated at all for over a month as half way through my little Christmas break, My lecturer had e-mailed us with our module handbook with a large list of everything that we should have finished by the time we get back to University.
So in reality, I was picking up loads of shifts at work (and I got £10 each shift I covered)!! Which meant that I had quite a bit of money saved up for when I started University again late January. Then along with all of the shifts I was picking up, I was trying to write two essays, get my journal work completed, produce some photographic work as a source material to generate ideas for the project and then begin producing some kind of 3D work that would help me produce even MORE work back at University.
Eventually everything linked up together and I got all of my work done alongside my actual job at the care home.
Overall my lecture is pretty happy with the ideas that I`ve got, wasn`t too keen on some small sample pieces of work I did; he said they seemed a bit too accurate, like I had placed everything purposefully and he didn`t like that too much.
The journal he`s happy with, it`s slightly bulging however and he would rather it be as flat as possible; it`s because of all of the textured pieces of work I`ve been putting in there to show as to what I`m going to be working with and how I`ll be working with my materials that I collected.
Along with the studio project, that is basically like the main module which is called Primary Practice, we have another project that we have a four hour lecture for on a Wednesday morning called Concepts and something... I can`t believe I`ve already forgotten as to what it`s bloody called.
It`s honestly the worst module I`ve ever done, and I mean through school and sixth form too, cause I feel so stupid; For Wednesday we have to discuss a piece of text and I can`t make heads or tails of it and it`s super frustrating to try and read.
I`ll be trying to get everything back to normal, I`m not doing quite well with my time management outside of University and it`s been weeks since I`ve seen my own bloody dad!
I`ll get it together at some point, I hope!
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Tuesday, 20 December 2016
Decmber, 20th; Almost Christmas!
Well then, it`s the Christmas Holidays!
And luckily, I`ve got 5 weeks off from University right now so I`ve got some time to just sit and do absolutely nothing until I work. The only thing I`m not looking forward too, is working on Christmas day.
Unfortunately, that is the price that people who work in healthcare have to pay at this time of year; and yes, I`ll be working the early shift in the care home that I`ve been working at since back in March. People take it in turns every year to work shifts at Christmas, so this year I`ll be working the early shift on Christmas day, but next year I won`t have to work Christmas day.
So your one year on, one year off really. I don`t mind it seeing as I`ll be making the lives of those who are ill and lonely, much easier and a lot more cheerful than what would be if there was no one there.
This is going to be my first time working on Christmas day, I`m not particularly looking forward to it seeing as when I get back from work; I would of missed my nephew opening his presents, I would be ready for my Christmas dinner and I`ll most probably be quite tired and not want to play any Christmas party games or drinking games.
But then again, I`m improving the lives of others; if I wasn`t there then who would be?
I would also like to add, that for work I had to complete a unit of work on basic healthcare, safeguarding, health and safety, first aid and adult protection; I managed to complete all 15 modules and have now achieved my Care Certificate!
Besides working over the Christmas period, I have had another photography session where I managed to get 156 photos; pretty soon I`ll try and upload a few of them to my art blog and I`ll also attempt to try and go over the new project.
I`m still a bit confused about my next project as I`m not sure as to what I`m going to produce or how I`m going to produce it over the holidays... But I have a bit of an idea and I should hopefully cover that when it comes to uploading photography.
The next time I update on the Diary blog should be after Christmas day, so until then..
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Have an amazing Holiday, break from work, break from all of that coursework and go get a little bit drunk!
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And luckily, I`ve got 5 weeks off from University right now so I`ve got some time to just sit and do absolutely nothing until I work. The only thing I`m not looking forward too, is working on Christmas day.
Unfortunately, that is the price that people who work in healthcare have to pay at this time of year; and yes, I`ll be working the early shift in the care home that I`ve been working at since back in March. People take it in turns every year to work shifts at Christmas, so this year I`ll be working the early shift on Christmas day, but next year I won`t have to work Christmas day.
So your one year on, one year off really. I don`t mind it seeing as I`ll be making the lives of those who are ill and lonely, much easier and a lot more cheerful than what would be if there was no one there.
This is going to be my first time working on Christmas day, I`m not particularly looking forward to it seeing as when I get back from work; I would of missed my nephew opening his presents, I would be ready for my Christmas dinner and I`ll most probably be quite tired and not want to play any Christmas party games or drinking games.
But then again, I`m improving the lives of others; if I wasn`t there then who would be?
I would also like to add, that for work I had to complete a unit of work on basic healthcare, safeguarding, health and safety, first aid and adult protection; I managed to complete all 15 modules and have now achieved my Care Certificate!
Besides working over the Christmas period, I have had another photography session where I managed to get 156 photos; pretty soon I`ll try and upload a few of them to my art blog and I`ll also attempt to try and go over the new project.
I`m still a bit confused about my next project as I`m not sure as to what I`m going to produce or how I`m going to produce it over the holidays... But I have a bit of an idea and I should hopefully cover that when it comes to uploading photography.
The next time I update on the Diary blog should be after Christmas day, so until then..
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!
Have an amazing Holiday, break from work, break from all of that coursework and go get a little bit drunk!
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Saturday, 10 December 2016
December, 8th; End of my first semester!
Well, the last week of University has gone extremely quickly; I`m not going to discuss my final piece on here though, I want to save that for my art blog since it`s been a while since I updated on there. Plus, I could do with putting some kind of updated work on there right now...Tomorrow is my last day at University, before I break up from University for the next five weeks or so. In between that time, I will be given a new module to be working on and I`ll be picking up a few more shifts at my part time job in the care home.
This first semester has been seriously weird for me, University is just a completely different environment that you somehow have to adjust too at the click of a finger.
To begin with, I don`t even live in accommodation, so to get to University it takes me about an hour or so travel time; that`s to walk to the bus stop, get the bus, walk half way through Derby and getting into Uni. Just that in itself is rather tiring, and I have thought about moving out for my second year since I`m not too sure if travelling will be best for me when it comes to producing some more serious pieces of work.
Then the whole studio atmosphere is really strange and hard to get used too.
The 33 of us got split up into three different groups of 11, and my group was completely separated from the the other 2 groups; meaning that we didn`t get too see them that much too start off with. You get a small desk to begin with and the second and third years work busily around you... Just seeing them working gives you some sort of insight into what you`re going to be doing in the upcoming semesters.
The whole University experience has been extremely strange for me, it`s nothing like they tell you it`s going to be... And I do mean that in a good way! It`s just that when the students come round and tell you everything you need to get ready for University, you don`t really need it. It`s like you actually panic for nothing.
You`ll make friends and you`ll lose them even quicker than making them! Fresher`s is bloody pointless, you miss all of the important stuff during your first few weeks and you don`t want to leave your flat at all because of your vomit covered floor and clothes. They big up all of the parties and nights out, but you miss out on vital information, you make drunken mistakes, drunken arguments and then get yelled at for not attending university for the past few days... Fresher`s is literally; get drunk, vomit, get yelled at, vomit some more.
The overall experience for me has been pretty great; I`ve only been out 4 times actually, and each time I`ve gone into university the next day and got on with my work... And each time I`ve swore that I`ll never drink again, that doesn`t work by the way.
The studio space I work in is huge and I love it! Mainly because we`re also based around the second and third years work spaces; so we get to be nosey and talk to them about the course and what we`re going to do over the next few semesters. Since Derby only accepts a small amount of people aswell, we all get our own workspace and a lot of one on one time with the tutors.
Next year, I genuinely don`t quite know what to expect.
I know that the tutors are defiantly taking a huge step back, and we become a lot more independent in the way that we work and what we start to produce. Over the next five weeks that I have off at Christmas, I also need to get quite a bit of journal work finished and I need to begin thinking about what I`m going to begin producing over the holidays.
We need to being working off of two words.
The first word has to like to the Form of what we`ll be producing, for example; 2D, 3D, photography, multi-media.
Then the second word has to be the content.
I`ve already got a few ideas, and I know for definite that I`ll be working with multi-media, but then I don`t know what the content of that work would be... Something like abandonment and then I begin working from photographs of abandoned buildings or abandoned objects that I`ve come across.
Multi-Media Abandonment... Not too sure yet.
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Sunday, 4 December 2016
December, 3rd; Deadlines and Stress.
It has been a while since I updated, if you didn`t know I had to work on a week long project which was extremely stressful and time consuming; I did update about that on my art blog, here`s the link:
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It`s been a very hectic couple of weeks, we`ve had three weeks in total to work on our final, "final" piece of work.
I`m currently on my last week, but as always, I`ve been rather busy with trying to get the majority of my work done. Over the past semester, we`ve done a number of workshops (all of which you can find on the art blog), and within the last 3 weeks of University, we have to combine some of the techniques we`ve been working with into one final piece. So far, all I`ve done is experiment with a lot of ideas and I`ve still not even thought about making a final/refined piece of work ready for hand in.
The worst thing is that my deadline is Friday the 9th, and I`m still thinking of ideas and ways to bring all of my work to a conclusion.
The worst thing is, the only technique I`ve enjoyed working with is the print making. When I was messing around with the prints I made before with the weird bright colours; I want to re-create that again with new prints.
My original objects where 3 different phones, all of different sizes and all have different buttons. After working with the objects and creating work form them, we then had to put the objects into context, so for mine that would be texting, calling or social media. Quite obvious things really.
Now, when everyone goes onto facebook, you immediately see selfies, group pictures, celebrities and pictures your friends and family have posted; the same with any other form of Social Media actually.
Instead of focusing on self image, which would be the first thing you think of when someone mentions social media, I want to focus on what you would get in response to putting a picture of yourself online.
Then, to put this into context; I`ve been gathering messages that have been sent to my personal facebook account, my facebook page, my Instagram and my MeetMe account. I`ve also asked people on my course if they could send me screenshots of messages they`ve been sent; all of the messages I`ve collected have been sent by random people who no one actually knows personally, just random people who`ve messaged us out of the blue.
What I`m working with is actually a topic that does need to be addressed in some way, all of the messages I`ve used are from people who are a lot older than us (some being around 40 years old), these are all harassing messages, messages asking for nudes, messages asking us to perform some kind of sexual task... IT`S SERIOUSLY WRONG! Even my lecturer Carl is slightly confused as to how people can happily send these messages out to just anybody.
What I`m doing is turning something that is instant and private, into a process that takes a lot of time and detail which can then be seen by everyone. Something very private, and very instant is becoming a lengthened process which is made public.
What I`m going to be producing is the exact opposite as to what I`m working with, it`s going to be really hard to finalize the work; plus I`m struggling to find a way to make this whole piece resolved.
A lot of people at the moment do seem quite shocked by what I`m getting through on my phone, and then using. I see this as normal, I get a lot of horrid messages on my phone every single day; so these kinds of words and phrases really aren`t new to me. But a lot of people are a bit shocked by them, and find them quite odd.Which I guess it`s the kind of reaction I want to get out of producing work like this. Another thing is, I still have to work within a framework.. Literally a frame at the moment, out two other lecturers, Dennis and Jeremy have gotten it into everyone`s head that we have to work within a box shape. So now I`m even more confused and lost as to how I should present or finalize my work.
I`ve been very, very lost these past 3-4 weeks or so.
Which is why there have been no blog updates lately aswell.
University does have me very stressed at the moment, and I`m there five days a week and then I have to work at the weekends. It is hard, and I am struggling; time is going by so fast that I haven`t really realized that I haven`t blogged, or reviewed, or uploaded recent photography.
Everything that I had going on before Univeristy does seem to have come to a stand still at the moment, and over Christmas when I`m giving my next module handbook I can imagine it`ll get harder for me to find things to update and write about.
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Sunday, 13 November 2016
November 13; Oxford Trip (Rather Brief)
So then... I should of really updated about two weeks ago.
Basically, in the middle of another three weeks of workshops and inductions, our lecturers decided that we should all go down to Oxford for the day and have a lovely walk around the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Gallery.
Unfortunately, because they decided that it`s be great to do this during more inductions; I never actually had any time to talk about it and share it with you guys. But, because it`s been about 2 weeks, I can`t bloody remember what I exactly saw when I was there and I`m annoyed at my camera at the moment because all of the images are still on my camera... But the wires for my camera at my boyfriends University flat.
This isn`t going to be very fun to do without any images, and my forgetfulness.
During the Ashmolean museum, our lecturers dragged us up to one of the top floors so we could have a look around the modern art exhibition which was apparently a "special" exhibition that they had on. All I`m going to say is that I wasn`t impressed at all, we couldn`t take any photos, the room was very small and cramped and the work that they had on display was just a random load of work all mish mashed together. None of it made any sense and it wasn`t impressive at all. That`s all for Modern Art at the Ashmolean.
The rest of the museum was absolutely brilliant; they`ve got giant collections of historical art from around the world with detailed explanations into their cultures and into some of the items that have on display there.
The only problem with the Ashmolean is because it was sooo big and we only had an hour or so to walk around the building; we couldn`t get around everything in time, so there was a lot of work on the upper floors that many of us didn`t get too see. I think most people stayed around the same kind of three floors sandwiched in the middle.
I ended up rushing one of my god friends Lucie around the building so we could go to the lower floors, look at the preserving history area, look at the Japanese and Chinese areas... It was a struggle to rush around that building.
I think that if you seriously want to have a good look around there then you need to spend a whole day in there just walking around and taking it all in. There`s too much to see in there in too little time, and it`s also very, very easy to get lost and confused as you walk around. The maps don`t help that much, they could really do with something a bit more detailed with a floor plan of every floor in the building, the amount of times I got lost was ridiculous.
The Modern art area, let me down; a lot. But the rest of the gallery is hard to explain, it`s extremely big and had a large range of historical art work and art work from around the globe. Just putting it into words is extremely hard, and it`s been two weeks sooo... Just look at some of the collections online, there`s some really good stuff on there.
The Pitt Rivers museum and Gallery was much better in my eyes.
It`s quite old and historical, the outside of the building seems quite dark and everything inside is original. At the front of the building is the more museum-y part of the building; it`s got large fossils and
skeletons hanging from the ceiling and placed in cases. Along with the large range of fossils, skeletons, gems, crystals, insects and taxidermy... You can go to the very back of the building and they have one of the largest collections of found objects from around the world. It goes something like that anyways, they have a collection of over 20,000 objects that are all on display all of the time.
This area has three floors, the area itself is very darkly lit and is seriously just packed full of glass cases with these weird historical items in them. All of the pictures on this blog are from the museum, you can find a lot more of the pictures online and they`ll be a much better quality than the pictures I`d taken.
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All of the images below are from the Pitt Rivers
Gallery and Museum.
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Basically, in the middle of another three weeks of workshops and inductions, our lecturers decided that we should all go down to Oxford for the day and have a lovely walk around the Ashmolean Museum and the Pitt Rivers Gallery.
Unfortunately, because they decided that it`s be great to do this during more inductions; I never actually had any time to talk about it and share it with you guys. But, because it`s been about 2 weeks, I can`t bloody remember what I exactly saw when I was there and I`m annoyed at my camera at the moment because all of the images are still on my camera... But the wires for my camera at my boyfriends University flat.
This isn`t going to be very fun to do without any images, and my forgetfulness.
During the Ashmolean museum, our lecturers dragged us up to one of the top floors so we could have a look around the modern art exhibition which was apparently a "special" exhibition that they had on. All I`m going to say is that I wasn`t impressed at all, we couldn`t take any photos, the room was very small and cramped and the work that they had on display was just a random load of work all mish mashed together. None of it made any sense and it wasn`t impressive at all. That`s all for Modern Art at the Ashmolean.
The rest of the museum was absolutely brilliant; they`ve got giant collections of historical art from around the world with detailed explanations into their cultures and into some of the items that have on display there.
The only problem with the Ashmolean is because it was sooo big and we only had an hour or so to walk around the building; we couldn`t get around everything in time, so there was a lot of work on the upper floors that many of us didn`t get too see. I think most people stayed around the same kind of three floors sandwiched in the middle. I ended up rushing one of my god friends Lucie around the building so we could go to the lower floors, look at the preserving history area, look at the Japanese and Chinese areas... It was a struggle to rush around that building.
I think that if you seriously want to have a good look around there then you need to spend a whole day in there just walking around and taking it all in. There`s too much to see in there in too little time, and it`s also very, very easy to get lost and confused as you walk around. The maps don`t help that much, they could really do with something a bit more detailed with a floor plan of every floor in the building, the amount of times I got lost was ridiculous.
The Modern art area, let me down; a lot. But the rest of the gallery is hard to explain, it`s extremely big and had a large range of historical art work and art work from around the globe. Just putting it into words is extremely hard, and it`s been two weeks sooo... Just look at some of the collections online, there`s some really good stuff on there.
The Pitt Rivers museum and Gallery was much better in my eyes.
It`s quite old and historical, the outside of the building seems quite dark and everything inside is original. At the front of the building is the more museum-y part of the building; it`s got large fossils and
skeletons hanging from the ceiling and placed in cases. Along with the large range of fossils, skeletons, gems, crystals, insects and taxidermy... You can go to the very back of the building and they have one of the largest collections of found objects from around the world. It goes something like that anyways, they have a collection of over 20,000 objects that are all on display all of the time. 
This area has three floors, the area itself is very darkly lit and is seriously just packed full of glass cases with these weird historical items in them. All of the pictures on this blog are from the museum, you can find a lot more of the pictures online and they`ll be a much better quality than the pictures I`d taken.
Sunday, 23 October 2016
October 22nd; Nottingham Contemporary Visit! (Marguerite Humeau).
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| Unfortunately, David doesn`t know how to bloody smile. |
Last Friday a new exhibition was put up at the Nottingham Contemporary, two different female artists this time around and one of my friends from University, Jas, was one of the people who actually helped to set up the whole thing! Marguerite Humeau; she explored the ideas of FOXP2 (I`ll explain later). Otobong Nkanga; the encounter that took a part of me.
Otobong`s work was really interesting to walk around but didn`t strike me on an emotional level, and I`ll explain what I mean by that later. Her work was site specific and one was a commission piece, it was large scale and quite dramatic.
One room had a metal strip that curved throughout the room; it was then filled with white pebbles, and small boards of work placed on top. Some areas had odd but large rocks, and some vegetation. Then right at the back it had an embroidery piece on a large stand that was absolutely gorgeous. It was strange everything being completely white, but it still made the boards of work stand out since the colour scheme was dark brown.
In the next room, which was also site specific. It had a large wall piece that went all across one side of the large room, and then an embroidery piece at the end of it that kept with the dark brown colour scheme. Then there where cases filled with some smaller pieces of work, and pieces of work then hanging off small metal cylinders that come out of the side of the cases... I`m not too sure if I even explained that in a way that people can actually understand.
Her work is impressive, and I loved the scale of it all; but it didn`t quite affect me on a level that the other artists did.
Marguerite`s work is something that I hadn`t actually experienced before and it was very, very strange to experience. At first I even put a status on facebook just saying that I didn`t even know how to react to the piece.
To begin with, a whole room had been turned into two corridors. You just walk down and turn left and then walk down that one and there`s just pure light coming through a rectangle door. The corridor area is pitch black and only has some small blue-ish lights coming from the edges of the ceiling. Within the corridor are loud and weird sounding noises, to be more straight forward the corridor plays a choir of 108 billion voices. These 108 billion voices re-enact the time our ancestors gained the morphing gene FOXP2, FOXP2 was a gene which allowed our ancestors to be able to develop speech.
So, as you walk down this corridor you can hear these weird and strange noises coming from every direction; but it`s nothing like anyone talking, it`s even lower than baby level speech and there`s so many of them going off at the same time that it`s almost overwhelming.
When you walk through into the next room, through the seriously bright rectangular door. You find a large room with salmon pink walls, and boxes with large white sculptures on top.
In this room, she explores elephants, yes; she explored the possibility of elephants becoming sentient beings, instead of us humans. So basically, if humans hadn`t of evolved into knowledgeable creatures with feelings and emotions, would elephants? I`m not too sure if it was like Elephants would be the dominant creatures on earth if it wasn`t for humans, or If they just gained the FOXP2 gene instead of humans.
To then explore the idea of elephants gaining the gene, there is a serious of different elephants throughout the room that are all doing completely different things and are expressing different feelings.
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Unfortunately, none of these images
will be in order due to how quickly
I was trying to update, if you want to see all of the elephants, then google the artist and have a look at some of her work
online.
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There`s a series of three at the opposite side of the room, and these three are built in such way that makes it seem like their larynges have dropped so they sing in an articulate language that sounds really strange... Not unsettling, but strange. These three are called Edwina, Amelia and Antonia.
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This is Echo, the elephant who
is currently taking it`s final
breaths.
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There was only one elephant that wasn`t making any noise whatsoever and it was the only one that didn`t have tubes or speakers coming out of it. It`s called Jean and it watches the others in "a sense of wonder".
One of them made some seriously strange noises as you walked around it, and was almost in sync with the other one right next to it. Felicie is engineered in such a way that it`s drunk, and the noises it`s making are from it being drunk from ethanol which comes from the masala fruit.
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| The front of Echo. |
A quite one, was by the one that made no noise and also behind the aggressive one. Bastein is a foetus being born, and it made quite whining kind of noises aswell as breathing sounds.
Throughout the room, you could constantly hear loud heart beating noises, that where literally non-stop. But because the corridor that was blacked out was right next to the pink room full of elephants, you could also hear the choir of 108 billion voices along with the sounds of the elephants. I seriously cannot describe the way that the elephant pieces made me feel, it was seriously strange to walk around witness.
the piece was amazing, yes, I`m not saying that it was bad in any way, definitely not saying that because I was honestly blown away with what I saw because I only thought it was going to be a small range of sculptures. It was strange to witness I guess, and upsetting in some way; when I first walked in I just though "wow, this is amazing". But after sitting in there for ten minutes I just thought about how they where feeling and why these noises where coming out of them, and the noises where just like something I`d never heard ever before. Sitting In there for ten minutes also made me feel like I wasn`t quite supposed to be in there, like I was intruding.
It was a mixture of weird emotions just from being in that room and seeing those sculptures made me feel slightly in-easy, and made my head slightly confused. It was definitely amazing, eye-opening and made you think about the piece. It was brilliantly effective and I bloody loved it.
if your around Nottingham or just passing through, it`s by the Broadmarsh shopping centre and is free entry. Also, look up the artists and have a good look at both of them, it`s actually Marguerite`s first major solo exhibition so it`ll also be good too look at her previous work before this exhibition.
I also apologize for not putting up all of the images, and for not putting up the ones that I do have in the right order. you`ll be able to find them all on the Facebook page later on in the day!
Thanks for reading everyone! I`ll be updating again very, very soon!
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Sunday, 16 October 2016
October 16th; Inductions are now over...
So then, if you remember in my last update, I mentioned that the University was starting us off with inductions; which spanned out over the course of three weeks.
Correct?
Well it should be because I had to go back and check as to what I`d written because I`d actually forgotten already. Yeah, I`m that tired.
Well then, We`ve finally finished those first three weeks of induction work, which felt quite prescribed and we had to do it all without fail. Along with that, there`s the out of hours lectures that we have to go to, all of the research and then journal work and contextually referencing everything we see.
I`ve been very tired (once again) and I`ve actually been at work again this weekend, I had last weekend off which felt amazing since I was still quite sick. But I ended up doing absolutely nothing the whole time and ended up staying in bed. You see, University is making me very lazy whenever I`m at home.
This next week at University is going to be extremely weird for me and I haven`t come up with any plans as to what I should do yet.
Over the three weeks we`ve had with Photoshop, wire and paper work; we now have to combine two of those elements and create a weeks load of work based off of those two elements alone and then on the Friday we have to present it to our whole class.
I should really be making plans on as to what I should do for the week, but so far I haven`t really planned anything out at all. I know that I defenitly want to use photoshop and paper, I fell out with the wire work straight away and ended up being quite passive aggressive towards my teachers because I hated it with a burning passion.
But I still haven`t planned out what I`m actually going to do, the last set of photoshop work I did, didn`t actually turn out great; which means I`m going to be struggling quite a bit, I think later on tonight I`m going to do some more planning work, and when I say more, I mean actually begin planning...
I also mentioned in the last update that I was quite sick; I went to the doctors on Monday and he gave me a quick look over. It turned out to just be a severe chest infection and a Viral bug that had both hit me at the same time. I`m finally over it now, which is a bloody miracle because if I hadn`t of gotten better then I would of had to have time off of work this weekend.
Time off of work, means that I won`t even be able to get to University; Student finance money won`t even cover my equipment costs, it`s ridiculous.
Nothing super interesting has happened over this past week, which is a shame really.
I`m really trying to leave myself more time to do things like catching up with blogging, creating my own personal work and having a little bit of time to watch my animes for reviewing.
Tonight I`ve been watching Plastic Memories, even though I haven`t finished yet and I can`t really say as to what direction this show is going in.
It`s an incredible watch, it`s based off of robots with synthetic souls that humans buy for companionship. It`s isn`t incredibly sci-fi, and I`m seriously enjoying it; if you want to get ahead of the next couple of reviews, then go and watch Plastic Memories!
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Correct?
Well it should be because I had to go back and check as to what I`d written because I`d actually forgotten already. Yeah, I`m that tired.
Well then, We`ve finally finished those first three weeks of induction work, which felt quite prescribed and we had to do it all without fail. Along with that, there`s the out of hours lectures that we have to go to, all of the research and then journal work and contextually referencing everything we see.
I`ve been very tired (once again) and I`ve actually been at work again this weekend, I had last weekend off which felt amazing since I was still quite sick. But I ended up doing absolutely nothing the whole time and ended up staying in bed. You see, University is making me very lazy whenever I`m at home.
This next week at University is going to be extremely weird for me and I haven`t come up with any plans as to what I should do yet.
Over the three weeks we`ve had with Photoshop, wire and paper work; we now have to combine two of those elements and create a weeks load of work based off of those two elements alone and then on the Friday we have to present it to our whole class.
I should really be making plans on as to what I should do for the week, but so far I haven`t really planned anything out at all. I know that I defenitly want to use photoshop and paper, I fell out with the wire work straight away and ended up being quite passive aggressive towards my teachers because I hated it with a burning passion.
But I still haven`t planned out what I`m actually going to do, the last set of photoshop work I did, didn`t actually turn out great; which means I`m going to be struggling quite a bit, I think later on tonight I`m going to do some more planning work, and when I say more, I mean actually begin planning...
I also mentioned in the last update that I was quite sick; I went to the doctors on Monday and he gave me a quick look over. It turned out to just be a severe chest infection and a Viral bug that had both hit me at the same time. I`m finally over it now, which is a bloody miracle because if I hadn`t of gotten better then I would of had to have time off of work this weekend.
Time off of work, means that I won`t even be able to get to University; Student finance money won`t even cover my equipment costs, it`s ridiculous.
Nothing super interesting has happened over this past week, which is a shame really.I`m really trying to leave myself more time to do things like catching up with blogging, creating my own personal work and having a little bit of time to watch my animes for reviewing.
Tonight I`ve been watching Plastic Memories, even though I haven`t finished yet and I can`t really say as to what direction this show is going in.
It`s an incredible watch, it`s based off of robots with synthetic souls that humans buy for companionship. It`s isn`t incredibly sci-fi, and I`m seriously enjoying it; if you want to get ahead of the next couple of reviews, then go and watch Plastic Memories!
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Sunday, 9 October 2016
October, 9th; How`s University?
Helloooo, it has been quite some time once again. For the past two weekends I was at work, then
University every other day... I have been somewhat tired recently and I`ve gone back to not having that much time to myself again.
We`re finally half way through our induction weeks now. Throughout these weeks we had to work with Photoshop for one week, and then paper and card, after that we work with wire. I`ve just finished the photoshop and card stuff since every group has to do them in different orders, tomorrow I`m moving onto the wires, which I`m looking forward too.
The idea of starting off with just these three simple things, is to get us used to the idea that we have to start off at the smallest points to then further our work. We`re not supposed to have ideas about what we want to do straight away, we`re supposed to do small things first and then the ideas eventually come to us, (supposedly).
It`s slightly weird just starting off with literally no idea as to what I want to do throughout the first year at University, I`m starting to get used to the kind of things that the course leader expects from us and I feel like I`m really getting on my feet now.
So really, I feel like University is going quite well for me at the moment.
I`m getting along incredibly well with the people on my course, we`ve already been for a night out together... It ended up with me falling into my boyfriends wardrobe a few times, I think that`s definitely the drunkest I`ve been.
We do get along though, and everyone is amazing and we`ve all got different ways of producing art; it`s very weird seeing 33 people take on something very simple but have rather different outcomes.
I`ve been very busy... Like veryyyyy busy lately.
It`s proving to be hard to get things done once I`ve finished University, I get very tired very easily and there`s a lot of travelling involved with getting too and from University. I leave about 7am and get home around 6pm most nights, and I also stay at Davids flat two nights a week to make it easier for us to see each other.
I haven`t stayed behind properly to get loads of work done, the studios shut at 9pm and I just leave as soon as possible. It`s so tiring sitting in those studios all day working on the same thing, we get like an hours break and a few short ones too so we aren`t locked in there.
Another thing is the work load, along with being in there all day everyday for five days a week, we have to do quite a lot of journal work in our own time and work on our own small things. I`m getting used to that aswell now, and a good amount of completed journals in Carl`s eyes is three... As in we definitely need like three journals in order to get a good pass rate on this first year.
Even though the first year doesn`t actually count towards our degree, you still need to get a good pass grade in order to come back for your second year. It`s all ever so complicated when you read the module handbook, but I`m beginning to try to get my head around that now aswell.
There really isn`t anything that interesting to talk about at the moment, I`ve been trying to work my little butt off this weekend because I had two days off during the week; I`ve been very ill with something that`s called "Freshers flu". Everyone else has had it now, but I`ve had mine for about two weeks now and It`s making me very unwell, I am starting to feel like it`s turned into something else now, either a chest infection or pneumonia because I`ve ticked all of the boxes for both of them now.
Tomorrow I`m going to go and try to see a doctor, but it means another bloody day off of University, and I`m beginning to feel like my course leader, Carl, is going to kill me.
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University every other day... I have been somewhat tired recently and I`ve gone back to not having that much time to myself again. We`re finally half way through our induction weeks now. Throughout these weeks we had to work with Photoshop for one week, and then paper and card, after that we work with wire. I`ve just finished the photoshop and card stuff since every group has to do them in different orders, tomorrow I`m moving onto the wires, which I`m looking forward too.
The idea of starting off with just these three simple things, is to get us used to the idea that we have to start off at the smallest points to then further our work. We`re not supposed to have ideas about what we want to do straight away, we`re supposed to do small things first and then the ideas eventually come to us, (supposedly).
It`s slightly weird just starting off with literally no idea as to what I want to do throughout the first year at University, I`m starting to get used to the kind of things that the course leader expects from us and I feel like I`m really getting on my feet now.
So really, I feel like University is going quite well for me at the moment.
I`m getting along incredibly well with the people on my course, we`ve already been for a night out together... It ended up with me falling into my boyfriends wardrobe a few times, I think that`s definitely the drunkest I`ve been.
I`ve been very busy... Like veryyyyy busy lately.
It`s proving to be hard to get things done once I`ve finished University, I get very tired very easily and there`s a lot of travelling involved with getting too and from University. I leave about 7am and get home around 6pm most nights, and I also stay at Davids flat two nights a week to make it easier for us to see each other.
I haven`t stayed behind properly to get loads of work done, the studios shut at 9pm and I just leave as soon as possible. It`s so tiring sitting in those studios all day working on the same thing, we get like an hours break and a few short ones too so we aren`t locked in there.
Another thing is the work load, along with being in there all day everyday for five days a week, we have to do quite a lot of journal work in our own time and work on our own small things. I`m getting used to that aswell now, and a good amount of completed journals in Carl`s eyes is three... As in we definitely need like three journals in order to get a good pass rate on this first year.
Even though the first year doesn`t actually count towards our degree, you still need to get a good pass grade in order to come back for your second year. It`s all ever so complicated when you read the module handbook, but I`m beginning to try to get my head around that now aswell.
There really isn`t anything that interesting to talk about at the moment, I`ve been trying to work my little butt off this weekend because I had two days off during the week; I`ve been very ill with something that`s called "Freshers flu". Everyone else has had it now, but I`ve had mine for about two weeks now and It`s making me very unwell, I am starting to feel like it`s turned into something else now, either a chest infection or pneumonia because I`ve ticked all of the boxes for both of them now.
Tomorrow I`m going to go and try to see a doctor, but it means another bloody day off of University, and I`m beginning to feel like my course leader, Carl, is going to kill me.
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Sunday, 18 September 2016
September, 19th; Yorkshire Sculpture Park!
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Meet Lucie (green hair) and Jake!
Also in front of one of the Kaws
Sculptures!
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We had our welcome day, enrolment day, a day where we got into the studios and sat down with our journals and showed them our work from over the holiday; Then Thursday was a bit of a break from all of that.
On Thursday our course leader had planned a slightly relaxing day out in Yorkshire; to Yorkshire Sculpture Park and then the Barbara Hepworth museum.
The reason I say it was only slightly relaxing is basically because we had to take our journals around with us the whole day, make notes, write down things that could be important for our work and draw things that we liked... I just kind of made odd doodles with scribbly pens.
It was only an hour and a half away from where we met near the university, it was tiring, quite a tiring day.
It started off quite gloomy, when I left Ilkeston there was a thin layer of mist everywhere and it was quite dark, it was even worse when we got into Yorkshire. The whole park was covered in mist and even the tress looked like some weird giant sculptures, it did brighten up throughout the day... When we where on a mile hike to another bloody gallery.
To begin with, we walked around the underground gallery next to
the main visitors centre; in there they had the "Not Vital" exhibition. Not Vital is an artist I`ve never heard of before, he`s a Swiss artist and if I remember correctly then this is his first UK Major Exhibition. I have to say though, he did have a large amount of work to then fill the spaces that he had been given.
His work was scattered all over the Park; it covered the three rooms inside of the Underground Gallery, he had two large Stainless steel (I think) sculptures, one in the main field and one on top of the underground gallery. He also had a range of ceramic head sculptures outside of the gallery, and then had taken up all of the space inside of the Garden Gallery.
The garden Gallery is based above the underground gallery, you have to walk up and over the underground gallery and there`s a small space inside of there for more work.
I wasn`t impressed with some of the work; there was a room with a huge wall that just had dark circles on that was supposed to represent faces, the next room had giant Steel heads (I was impressed with those), The next room had a range of smaller but weirder sculptures. Some of those where on the walls and some where in the middle of the room for you to walk around.
Then there was another room called Bridges, which had a lot of weird stainless steel sculptures inside, some of them where bridge like and others didn`t make any sense. Some of them where rather skilled though, the steel itself had a gorgeous shiny finish and very sharp edges, so it was skillful work.
In the Garden Gallery; they had a range of Not Vital objects and souvenirs that you could buy, they even had a mould of his nose that had been cast in bronze and then altered to look like gold... But you couldn`t buy that, it had been given to the park especially. In there they also had three or four little pocket rooms, in each one they had three images by Not Vital... Unfortunately I wasn`t
impressed with them as well. They seemed to be hand made sheets (like made out of fibres) and then they had tiny bits of work on them, that I wasn`t impressed with really. I think if your going to make things out of fibres and work on top of them, then you should really be working with something that compliments the fibres and affects the fibres... Not just a few marks and that`s it! Like painting on top of it so the fibres then come loose, or drawing on top which would leave dents and lines in the fibres but not necessarily the pen (fibres wouldn`t really let the ink settle). |
| A piece by Henry Moore. |
I split up and went off with Lucie, Mel and Evie; however we didn`t actually know if we could walk off yet and go and see other exhibitions so we kind of just wondered around near the pond and the flower buds for a while and then went off on a small hike... the small hike was also a sorry attempt at not getting lost.
If anything, we didn`t quite get lost, we just became somewhat confused with were we where and were we where supposed to go next. We knew that we had to meet up back at a small cafe near where our bus was, but we didn`t know exactly where that was..
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| Another Henry Moore |
The area was just called Country field or something, it was where all of the outside sculptures where based and there was quite a lot of them, but because of the amount of time we had before we had to re-group we didn`t have the chance to get round them all.
We got to see Turrells skyspace; an underground brick area, you walk into one of the two doorways, which leads you into a large room underground, in that space there`s seating all around the room and you look up at the sky which has been framed. It`s supposed to be an interactive piece since the art isn`t just there for you to look at, you have to sit and wait for the sky to change and for the clouds to float by... It was rather relaxing, I could of sat in there for a while if I could of but we had to leave quite quickly so we could then re-group.
Before we re-grouped, we went over to the Chapel; there we was supposed to see another artist who had been working on a large scale exhibition... It was locked, even though there was sooo many different schools visiting and the place was packed, the bloody chapel was locked so we never actually got to see his work in the end.
Amongst all of that, we got to see other pieces that where hidden amongst bushes that we didn`t know about and we got to see some gorgeous views. But like I said before, we only saw like 3 or 4 other people head down towards that field, so I`m not really sure as to how many other people got to see some of the same stuff as we did.
After we all met up and finally had something to eat, we began to head up towards the Longside gallery; from the café we where sat at, the gallery was about a miles walk... It had just started to get very warm outside as well so the walk up there wasn`t one of the nicest walks I`ve had.We walked amongst a number of different sculptures to get up there, one looked like a sexual bunny, there was a row of seated people? or something along the lines of that. A bronze person stood on top of a large tree...
And OBVIOUSLY, one of my favourite sculptures of all time had a large exhibition on. KAWS.
I love his work sooo much, just the way that the sculptures curve and the shine of the wood, it`s just pieced together so perfectly that when you think about it, you do really have to see the pieces in person to appreciate the skill of the piece.
I almost cried when I first saw them, I had no idea that this outdoor exhibition was still on; a few of my friends went to it, but I had no idea that it would still be there when I went up... I`m sure no one saw me almost cry when I first saw them, I know I got really excited and practically ran towards them.
There`s just something about his work that is satisfying but dark to view, the names of the sculptures give a dark undertone to the piece and it`s quite eerie. Something that looks as innocent as a parent protecting a child, can have a name that makes you question as to what the sculptures are really doing, or what scenario they where built to fit into to.
There is no way to describe the work, and you have to see it in front you to then be able to appreciate what it is and how it`s been done.
If you want to see the KAWS outdoor exhibition then it`s at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and ends on the 13th of November.
The walk to the Longside gallery took a veryyyy long amount of time, for starts, me Lucie and Jake fell behind because we wanted to look at all of the KAWS sculptures. The walk was about a mile long and when we got to the field we had to walk up it was ridiculously hot outside, and the field was full of holes and un-cut grass so it was awkward to walk up. By the time we got the top, three other people where stood underneath a tree trying to cool off, so we stood and joined them before walking a bit more up to the gallery... It didn`t have air con inside.
Then after all of that walking, we got the bus back down and round to the main visitors centre... Now here`s my question, why did we have to walk all of that way up when there was a bus service to take us up and down there anyway? We walked all that way, for a ten minute look around and to then just hop onto the bus and go back down the easier way. In fact, we had walked that far, that when I took one last picture I couldn`t actually see where we had started walking from.
Not a lot of sculptures inside of the Longside Gallery interested me that much, all of these things are objects, prints and sculptures that are made of materials that I know I`ll never be able to use or I`ll never have the chance to use.
I`ll be doing an update on the Barbara Hepworth Museum on another day.
If I ever make long updates with a lot of pictures, the text can go funny and paragraphs move around too much, it`s gotten to the point in this one where I just deleted every picture and had to move them all back around again... The only thing with that is that they are seriously jumpy and never stay still unless I spam some clicks.
Stick around for the Barbara Hepworth update!
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