The Frank Bobbins Institute Exhibition.

PULL, AIM, SQUEEZE, SWEEP...

When walking into a, what looks like from the outside, to be a cold barn building in Worksop you don't expect to be met with an exhibition full of artwork. As mentioned, it was cold, very cold. And being as nesh as a person can be i felt felt it even beneath a woolly jumper. When beginning to actually look at the pieces you develop the foreign feeling of just being in your own little world with the art. I'm not denying i felt like id plummeted ten thousand miles out of my comfort zone when everyone around could distinguish the pieces within seconds where as it took me a little more time.

The first piece i really looked at and took in was this scene in the photos. it was a dressing table with multiple paints and make-up products layed out on top of it. On a small TV above the dresser a video tutorial of a male painting his face eccentrically with make-up. the thought was that the person sitting in the chair may replicate the tutorial, as a fellow student decided to do. I thought this piece represented how society "follows the crowd". in modern day becoming different and quirky is quickly becoming the norm and not different at all. it shows how people are willing to duplicate, in this case a certaqin look, because we saw someone else do it and are guided by them.

The second piece that caught my eye was this one, which i was later told was a representation of Miley Cyrus. To me the figure looks bored from the pose and what looks like the mouth being open and yawning. I like the representation of men's balls dangling from her hand as though they're q play you her her. I like the abstract form and line of this piece with the use of opaque and strong bold lines throughout creating definition. 

The second piece I looked at was a collection surrounded by the mundane subject of the household potato. 

I like this piece especially because of the complimentary tones.






This next collection did baffle and confuse me at first. The feeling i got was that the pieces were trying to show how we emphasis mundane things, in these works it is a potato which we would assume was pointless.                
                                           
I specifically liked this piece of artwork on the right because of the oposing colours making is attractive and the light hitting the hand really brings the piece alive. The thick black lines give definition to the form and gives it a cartoon look.

There was also more pieces in this collection aimed around potaoes and giving definition to the mundane object. All the pieces have an abstract feel to them with light sources coming from the left bringing the pieces together.




Performance art

Id never experienced  performance art before. This piece was by Rosie B and Named "After a while, they'll change your style..."
During the Performance the performer, dressed in white, takes handfulls of poppy seeds and slowly and methodically covers their face and body with them. next to the performance it explained "This piece is a meditation on the use of pain killers, antidepressants, sedatives, and other types oh psychotropic drugs. The poppy seeds signifies one of the first effective modern medicines to be synthesized by man - opium, or morphine as it is known today. At some point in all our lives, we will have to take a drug of some kind, but this piece questions where the line between abuse and dependence and legitimate drug use lies, and how drugs change or diminish our personalities."
I like how deep this piece of work got into this subject of drug use and really makes you think through its description.





I really enjoyed going through this exhibition because it was a new experience to go through different medias and the different aspects of art which I hadn't witnessed before. They made me think about my own work and will think of this exhibition when doing my own work.