This popped in to my in box this morning-The Complex History of Yellow, a “Mediocre” Color — Read on hyperallergic.com/529864/the-complex-history-of-yellow-a-mediocre-color/ Penguin Dictionary of Symbols describes yellow as “the hottest, the most expansive and the most burning of all colors in its intensity, violence and almost strident shrillness … broad and dazzling as a flow of molten…
Category: Gallery Visit
Week 24: ’There Hasn’t Been a Lot of Improvement’: Feminist Artist Valie Export on Her 1980 Venice Biennale Pavilion-Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in London December 2019.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=There+Hasn’t+Been+a+Lot+of+Improvement’:+Feminist+Artist+Valie+Export+on+Her+1980+Venice+Biennale+Pavilion-Galerie+Thaddeus+Ropac+in+London+December+2019.&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari This was an interesting exhibition. I did agree with the artist may be the audience plays a part in wether exhibitions are successfully received and “make a difference”. Saying things, exhibitions and other forms of expression can just be seen, accepted and forgotten. It may take a campaign and many years including education to…
Week 22: Boats
are containers for adventures and I have been unconsciously collecting them. They keep you safe or not. Like Henry Moore’s Helmets. Like time, water flows and is displaced by boats. Eureka. Clouds come into this some where along with magic carpets – think I understand why. Adventures which start with a quest/project and your adventure…
week 21: Thursday Exhibition visits.
FINE ART TRIP: London Contemporary Gallery VisitDATE: Thursday 5 Dec, 2019TIME: meet at 10.15amWHERE: inside Annely Juda Fine Art, 4th Floor, 23 Dering St, W1S 1AWTUTORS: Adam Knight & Isabel Young SCHEDULE FOR THE DAY: TIME ACTIVITY 10.15 Meet at Annely Juda Fine Art (see exhibition ‘Destruction-Reconstruction’ by Tadashi Kawamata) 10.30 Visit galleries in West…
Week 20: Reflecting on the some of the exhibitions I visited in the last couple of months.
With a whole day of exhibitions comming up on Thursday I thought I had better box up the ones I’ve already seen. As our assessment week approached Adam gave me a list of shows to vivit. I read the email- great a plan. A few I had already seen and any excuse to go back…
Week 18: Investigate First the Tate.
We visited the Tate Modern on day 2 , week 1 of the Investigate Project. I really didn’t think I was going to find anything new. Everyone paired off, so I quickly check the Tate web site and realised there were two new exhibitions and made my way up the escalators. Then I thought would…
Week 13: V&A review.
All the items I chose at the V&A to study, scrutinize and the sketch had stories behind them. Some from my imagination and some I manage to discover from the cards placed near them which I researched later. All were magical or poignant, some were quite troubling.
Sarah Chalkie Cloonan 
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