UCA, Maidstone Free Range Exhibition

UCA, Maidstone

Free Range Graduate Exhibition:

The Old Truman Brewery (F Block T2)

'Zone'

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Sophie Calle

'67 Days to Unhappiness' Sophie Calle and her made, unmade bed.

'The Hotel Room'

Although I am interested in Sophie Calle's work and she is something that inspires me I appear to unintentionally assumed her working practice. Not in terms where I am copying her work, more a similar context with my own work.

Michael Craig-Martin

Glass on water positioned on a shelf with the text consisting of an interview explaining/discussing the work. After my inclusion of a glass of water in a few of my photographs prompted this similarity to be suggested, I felt I wanted to look into this work.

Example of the interview, which is the text in the installation:

Q. Do you mean that the glass of water is a symbol of an oak tree?

A. No. It's not a symbol. I've changed the physical substance of the glass of water into that of an oak tree.

Q. It looks like a glass of water.
A. Of course it does. I didn't change its appearance. But it's not a glass of water, it's an oak tree.Text copied from http://acheimeublog.blogspot.com/2008/03/michael-craig-martin-oak-tree-1973.html

Looking to Vermeer's paintings to study the quality of light and the pale,pastel colours and how this relates to my own work.

Vermeer

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Final Major Project

Work in Progress for final major project. Needs a title to contextualise it.
The work is based around my childhood family holidays, three places in particular,
Seaton, Torquay and Dawlish. I have a poor memory of these places so my intention is
to re-explore these areas in which I have the original photograph with me but never present
in the photograph, keeping the original from the viewer, referring to Roland Barthes and 'The
Winter Garden' image of his mother. These hotel rooms are not the original places I stayed in 1992, but are important as my use of them is more about examining the spaces and the utilitarian nature of the hotel room and how it functions within the holiday. My work usually
focuses on 'self as subject' but I have taken my physical being out of the frame and rather imply
a trace of the self as being evident within these images. The light is an important factor in this work and the decor of the hotel rooms themselves, referring to them as a form of empty shells in which many people have stayed before my entering the space.