RESIDENT
18 students seperately exhixibited in one space within 1:1 studios of London. The work was varied and carried through on show for a number of days throughout June 2023.
PINATA
June - July 2023 at studio 1:1, Redchurch street in London. Resident is the name of the exhibition. With over 18 UCA MA FINE ART Students displaying a variety of work within the space and gallery.
The space is small and confined, however artworks can be shown either in installation wise or up on walls. Upon researching the area and its gallery, the studio has limited room so smaller installations and works are ideal from the website and information layout plan below.
The industrial feel of the studio and its gallery gives a raw yet interesting view of what may be placed within the areas of the inside of the space. Upon this the exhibition named resident - shows the residency value of placing work within the area of London that is very interesting.
Pinata is designed to look at the resident ways of living within a world that is confined yet so free. In creating the piece on the canvas - the colourful tissues overlapped and created a rainbow. What with the exhibition week landing on Pride week, the rainbow piece of work can be seen as a celebration in some ways that would look in-depth at the rights bi, gay, straight and lesbians.
For being a straight artist with friends of a multi diverse of sexuality, the coal mines of Wales and England struggled with the culture differences and so the work of the mining grew harder for anyone on the fence or outside a norm within the eighties.
Gays, Lesbian and bis helped support the mining strikes in the eighties and rallied campaigns to prevent the closure of local working men. For this brought a community together and so, Pinata was created. A celebration, a banner of pride and hope within an community.
Evan thou a pinata, is full of candy - this pieces just a flat canvas of A3 size with layers of frayed tissues upon the canvas stuck and domestically reflected a chore each day with a square.
If there was time a fan would be installed, however the thoughts are to install the work near a doorway or window. This would encourage the frayed flaps to work and move about the direction of wind.