Art and Exhibition          Group Project Work



03/02/15  Introduction to Art and Exhibition Module: Presentation by Tutor and Introduction to curatorial concepts.

 Virtual Exhibition
Theme:  Imaginary Exhibition. First year student Darren Logan, and myself selected two artists: Robert Long and Andy Warhol for the imaginary exhibition.
Robert Longo's powerful drawing of police holding back protesters in Ferguson was based on photographs taken after 18year old Michael Brown was shot by a police officer.
Andy Warhol's silk-screened photograph of police in Birmingham, Alabama attacking a civil rights protester.
Title for imaginary exhibition:  Capital Crime.
Location of Exhibition: This would be a travelling exhibition showing Robert Longo's and Andy Warhol's images projected on to buildings such as The BBC Headquarters, New Scotland Yard Headquarters and The Empire State Building etc. etc. 
The aim of the exhibition would be to make more people aware of the injustices of the law and the liberties taken by people who hold positions of authority.
Darren presented the exhibition to our group leader Jo Capper and the group of first first and second year students.

Group Curatorial Activity
Theme:  Narrative of Object
Our group was made up of six students:  Ella, Sharleen, Alanna, Darren, Sam and myself.
First we held a meeting to discuss ideas for the subject. We discussed the possibility of making a large charcoal drawing divided into six sections and each student would sketch an image of their choosing. Not all members of the group were present at this meeting so the idea was put on hold. We managed to get all members together for another meeting and agreed the following: Each member of the group would bring in an object that held memories from their past, something that was precious to them but not necessarily of any value to other people. We discussed how these objects might be used and decided that they should be brought into college and  photographed and the photos cut into pieces as a way of saying that the objects  had served their purpose and were part of the past.We then discussed how the objects could be presented to an audience. We decided on making a room inside a room and how this could be done to allow the audience to view without having  physical access to the space.
The chosen items were brought in and photographed expertly by Sam. Ella designed and created the beautiful artwork for the show and Darren, Sharleen, Alanna and myself built the museum for the objects. This was a room 8ft x 8ft with the walls made from sheets of rigid board insulation. The inside of the walls was papered with 1980s floral wallpaper (which my sister Anne very kindly provided)
and the outside was painted white. The floor was covered with a green carpet provided by Darren and a shelf was fixed round all the walls. The furniture consisted of a very old armchair (provided by Darren) and a coffee table (provided by Sharleen).The objects were arranged on the shelf and the coffee table. To enable the audience to view the objects Darren cut small apertures in all four walls of the space. One of the items was a very old transistor radio which we placed on the table and this was left switched on to a station to provide rather muffled sound.
The video of the installation was created and presented by Sam to our tutors and fellow students.