Fine Art Foundation Degree

  This was a small exhibition set up by a group of artists from Westminster Uni at a café. They managed to talk to the man who owns the café & ask if they could present their work there. He said it would be a perfect way to bring people in to the café & to promote his poetry which he creates on the side. They had a room upstairs that had been cleared out for their work, whilst he provided drinks & poetry readings downstairs. These were done by an artist called Erin inspired by Andy Warhol. These are screen printed photos of guys from her university, with them all doing the same pose. This is about repeated patterns, which I think shows the monotonous process of screen printing. She also said it was about masculinity, which is why they are all repeatedly doing the same action. This piece is done by my friend, Abi Dimelow, who predominantly produces paintings of people & children, mixing imagery together to create odd compositions that evoke thought & questions. A...

 MY EXHIBITION SPACE Unfortunately, my camera doesn't work very well but I did manage to take some pictures of them all lined up in the studio space. They definitely work well against the white wall as they all have dark backgrounds. It would have been nice if I could've decorated the space a bit more, possibly with a white curtain, some lights, or a gold circle on the wall to present the larger piece. However, coming up to the end of the year I had ran out of money to spend on my exhibition. I do like how it looks though, & perhaps a busier background would have distracted from the details in the pieces I produced. I think they definitely work well together & compliment each other. The continuous circles express the circle of life, as they are all related to loss. When I see them all together, I can see the progress in design & outcome & overall neatness of the pieces. I gradually got better at working with string & it is clear to see when I look at the rob...