Group Meeting

14th January 2014

Following our group tutorial with John we had another meeting in order to finalize ideas for our show so we can begin to plan and organize our ideas and put them into action. Our first plan of action was to give each member of the group an element of the exhibition that needed planning. So far Julia has offered to write the press release with the help of Anna, Emma and Megan creating the final design. Bianca is creating a group blog for our exhibition from which all of our blogs will be linked. Hannah, Ray and I are in charge of advertising the event and designing posters and flyers for our exhibition. Although we all individually or as small groups are organizing our set plans we will feedback to the group each time for suggestions and to make sure everyone is happy before final decisions are made. Once this was decided we continued to develop our ideas for the exhibition.

Further Artists:

Sam Ellis- This image is a piece by artist Sam Ellis in her second year of study at BCU. These floral forms are of various scales both smaller and slightly larger. They seem to appear to be made out of hot glue which has been shaped into these forms and then covered in vivid inks and brusho. We were all attracted to the design and composition of these pieces as they draw the eye around the flowers. These link in really well with our theme of Ethereal because of their delicate, fragile nature. It would be interesting to have these scattered across the floor and then slowly crawling up the sides of the walls.








Lucy Orme - This piece is by artist Lucy Orme and has a strong focus on time which links in perfectly with our theme. This is plaster sculpture with melted wax creating the crystallized forms that you can see within the image to the right. This piece would work well as either a floor based piece or placed on a plinth near the glass slippers as they compliment one another very well. 

Kerris Stirling - The piece below is by artist Kerris Stirling. It presents small cellular forms with various colourful growths congealed into one another. This piece links well with the floral forms made by Sam Ellis. Again they have a strong link with our theme of Ethereal with this mysterious aura surrounding the idea and concept of the.                                                                

                                                                       By choosing these further artists it has added another dimension to our show. It allows us to focus on various types of art work, rather than just wall based pieces. They also emphasize our chosen theme of Ethereal through the nature of the work and the concept and ideas behind them.







Group Progression: 

After Johns feedback it was suggested that we do not use the wall space to hang the pieces off as you would in a conventional gallery. We all agreed that this would give our show an effective edge. Now we had to come up with a solution to display the work. We could use the floor space and also hang some of the pieces from the ceiling, this could be done by using fishing wire to add to the illusion that the piece is floating. There was also the suggestion of facing the work outwards. I had the idea to hang the cube by its point so it created a diamond shape. We will further discuss all of these ideas once we have had our lecture with Mons concerning hanging pieces in both conventional and unconventional ways.


Title Suggestions:

• Off the Wall- A literal title in terms that we are not using the wall.
• Ethereal - The concept for our show.
• Arial - A synonym of Ethereal, however to obviously linked to Disney character.
• Fantasia - Perhaps to obvious and doesn't link so well. 

 We are still undecided with a title and so for our next meeting we will all have a think of one that will fit our exhibition perfectly.