When I was in London I visited the Everyday Monuments Reclaiming the Landscape Exhibition to investigate how they displayed their work and find innovative ideas to possibly use when showcasing my own work for my upcoming exhibition.
This exhibition was a collaboration of artists including Catriona Robertson, Jacob Talkowski and Alaric Hammond. These artists used everyday items that ordinarily might have been thrown away, including take away boxes etc.
When arriving, the exhibition statement is printed onto the wall; I have found this to be a common way of displaying this info from attending other exhibitions. The room was very interactive and exhibitors were allowed to go up-close to the artefacts and underneath artworks. However, there were small bench-looking artefacts and there were no signs to say whether the viewer was allowed to perch. The room was very bare and white, the lighting harsh and the space huge with little actually in it. The artists’ statements were hung on the wall but very small, almost miss able.Although this exhibition was disappointing and I can’t really say I’d recommend it to you, it has inspired me to make my work interactive and fun for the viewer to look at but also to try to fill the space as often work can get lost in empty spaces.
Everyday Monuments Reclaiming the Landscape
