Woodroff Secondary School exhibiton 2013

I love looking at young people's work as it is so uninhibited and refreshing.  I'm lucky that Lyme Regis is well-known for its art and photographic connections and I try to go to the numerous art and photographic exhibitions throughout the year.

This year's  show is as visually stunning as in the previous years and I spent an enjoyable half an hour this week looking round and discussing various items with the student who was minding the whole shebang that particular afternoon.

The only criticism that I have is there is nothing to indicate the brief the students were given to produce their portfolios.  Also, none of them have titles.  I asked Tom (see seen here in my picture of the exhibition) and he told me that they were never asked to title any of their work which I think is sad as a title can give extra depth to an image.

Maisie Hill re:collection exhibition - Lyme Regis museum

I visited our local museum yesterday to see the exhibition 'Re:collection' by local photographer Maisie Hill. 

 

‘Both Object and Observer’ was the second re:collection exhibition in the Rotunda Gallery at the Lyme Regis Museum.The exhibition by local photographer Maisie Hill ran from January 10^th to March 27^th as part of Lyme Regis ArtFest’s ongoing re:collection project, in which artists take inspiration from items on display in the museum to create new artwork.  Maisie explained in a local press review that in this exhibition she drew inspiration from both the photographs in the museum and the various ways in which they were presented.  

This exhibition was advertised as curated by the photographer herself and I must admit that I was rather confused as to which pictures in this small area were part of the exhibition.  I saw 3 different set of images - one on hands and tools, one on photographs of the full moon and one set of images, called 're-emerging' on rubbish on the cliff beaches from a Victorian rubbish dump.

None of the pictures on display seemed to hang together metaphorically speaking.  The group of hand pictures each holding different tools was extremely disappointing in that all you saw was someone's lap with their hands resting holding a different tool.  I have often thought about completing a project on hands but this gave me no inspiration at all.  Everyone was a copy of the previous one but a different tool.  

The other groups of pictures were very limited and, all in all, it was a disappointing experience.

Fun element missing

Whilst I haven't been doing much work on my next project and assignment, I have been delving into the forums and find I can certainly sympathise with Michael J who finds it increasingly difficult to keep the fun element in his module work, see link below:

http://oca-student.com/node/100066

I can sympathise with that as faced with the next exercise or assignment I go into brain dead mode.  Sometimes it takes an email to my tutor to get the block unblocked and move on.  I have always realised that I am not a good ideas person but given a lead or idea can take it further into interesting and unchanneled water.  It's just that start point that needs a push!