Tag Archives: contemporaryart

GALLERY/ SPACE

K6 Gallery consists of two K6 model disused telephone boxes on Castle Lane, Southampton. Creating a gallery space from an object that was built for a singular purpose has made K6 an intriguing and individual venue for art. The constantly changing displays have to physically adapt to the space, challenging the artists and promoting not […]

John Hansard Gallery

Abducted by aliens, yet feet firmly on earth – this can only mean one thing: dreaming. Haroon Mirza’s Waves and Forms at the John Hansard Gallery transcends our very consciousness into another dimension. This is the very purpose of the show, Mirza states, the installations allow us to let our minds drift from reality, and […]

Winchester Gallery

An exhibition is not merely complete when set up, it is the beginning of it’s journey, the start of the story that only we, as the viewer, can conclude. An exhibition, Ralph Rugoff states in Paula Marincolas What Makes a Great Exhibition is a form of escapism, a small interactive distraction from the everyday. The […]

KNOWLEDGE

What does the library mean to you? What does the library mean to you? Knowledge. As part of the library induction we were proposed in groups to curate a visual representation of what the library means to us. Collectively we deliberated and landed on the word knowledge – the contents of a library gives us […]

SOUTHSEA GREEN EXHIBITION

“[…] alternative spaces, where a quicker response time, more curatorial autonomy, and less financially onerous stakes allow for a concomitantly greater ability to experiment and take risks. […] – bigger is not necessarily better.” What Makes a Great Exhibition; Introduction: Practice Makes Perfect, Paula Marincola, 2015. The Southsea Green exhibition has been a great experimentation […]

SOUTHSEA GREEN EXHIBITION p.8

In ‘Exhibition’ by Lucy Steeds, Peter Osbourne is quoted in using the term “Constructive Intent” in regards to exhibitions not just being a display of the aesthetic, but a creation in itself, a construction of a space with intent to probe discussion, debates and ideas. Exhibitions do not exist to make the audience question how […]