Posted here are some installation view pics from my MA final show, 16-22 July 2015. It comprised of three distinct but related bodies of work:
Firstly, a set of five mounted digital giclée prints (23 x 15 cm) which were casually displayed on a shelf, installed in a corridor alongside the main exhibition space. Although in five parts it should be considered one piece, or a ‘pentaptych’, and was titled Queens Road to New Cross. Each showed a photographic ‘bokeh’ shot, taken while travelling on the top deck of buses from Camberwell to Lewisham at night. They have then been digitally-manipulated using just three processes: firstly made negative, and then levels, hue and saturation have been adjusted. They are simultaneously familiar and mysterious. At first they may appear as abstract paint or ink blots, or maybe microscopic photography of bacteria? The print showing the ‘open’ sign offers slightly more clues. My aim was to uncover the inner ethereal beauty of what some might consider somewhere just to pass through - or at worst, an urban eyesore.
Secondly, a set of seven assemblage pieces. Again, although strictly these are separate objects, I was presenting them almost as one piece by placing them so close to each other. As I've said elsewhere, 'I use found objects, materials and images taken from the urban environment. Revealing the overlooked visual qualities of these apparently mundane subjects, I aim to validate the intrinsic aesthetic worth of the inner city'. There should be more detail on each piece in elsewhere in this blog...
Adjacent to the assemblages were displayed nine digital giclée prints, which were arranged into three sets of three, or triptychs. They were sized aprox. 40 x 40 cm and 62 x 40 cm; mounted onto a rigid foamex board and printed with a semi-gloss finish. Each showed a digital photomontage itself using three images all taken from the local urban environment. Again, more detail is to be found elsewhere on this blog...