exhibition: “33 bad things happened to me today.” “Well, infinity things happened to me!”
An Exhibition by me and my porcelain artist friend Amanda.
I wrote a post a few weeks ago about how to DIY an exhibition. Well now that my exhibition has been and gone I can relax enough to post some pics of it and run through a few issues we had.
The exhibition, as you can see, is quite minimal, sparse even. Amanda’s work is cast porcelain. She uses found objects, mostly discarded toys and blow up objects to make the molds from. She then creates these one off pieces that are a playful and sometimes dark look at childhood. The hanger is hand carved porcelain and is one of my favourite things. My images are rather curious portraits with gelled out colour and lighting, where you can get a sense of that strange kid world.
One of the issues on the day that Amanda and I had was the use of the space. We found out that we both had totally different ideas in our head of how we were going to use the space and had not actually discussed this fully before hand. In the end we needed a mediator to be able co-ordinate our different ideas. It worked out really well, I think…
October 6th, 2006 at 6:00 pm
i like the hanger too kathreen!
curating an exhibition is no small accomplishment. sometimes the public forgets until they walk into a space (gallery, what ever) that has been curated well, that it took an immense amount of timing, planning, editing and plain hard work to make something out of the parts given. i spend weeks for each exhibition working out details and usually about 8 hours hanging each show we have. we are dedicated to making the artists work presented in the best possible way.
i would love to see more images of this! it looked wonderful.
October 6th, 2006 at 11:48 pm
what a lovely exhibition! i too would like to see more photos if you have them! the hanger is adorable…great job! now you can take it easy, right! :-)
October 7th, 2006 at 2:49 am
I loved those hangers when I was a child and I still love the look of them. If I had had more of them, maybe I would have hung up more clothes. The exhibit looks really interesting too.
October 7th, 2006 at 3:06 am
Your photography and her porcelain are phenomenal and the marriage of the two in an exhibit is just swell.
Love that hanger.
October 7th, 2006 at 4:45 pm
Any type of creative collaboration is generally fraught with difficulties.
Hand up also for loving the hanger. Any more close-up pics of this? I have used the originals (plastic) in my jewellery making on occasion.