Exhibition
In this issue we look at the inventive use of exhibiting and displaying your work during lock down and see how new platforms have been utilised.
Artist name
Ayshia Taskin
Title
Lockdown Performances [2020]
DescriptionA series of Livestream performances created in my tiny bathroom during the quarantine. This was also extended into RE-MERGE a global unison collaborative art event with artists around the globe.
Instagram @ayshiataskin
ayshia.co.uk
Here are a bunch of ideas I use when I have Open Studios,
1. Ikea picture shelf. You can use it for framed or wrapped prints, lightweight dioramas.
2. Bulldog type clips, you can get fancy copper ones now which can look great for un-framed prints
3. Embroidery hoops, have a natural hook, gray for small textile pieces. I buy in bulk and spray paint mine. You can also pad them and make it look 3D.
4. Trouser hangers. Ideal for textile work. I used them for my paper aprons and bigger prints
www.henkalullah.wordpress.com,
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/helenlockestudio
Artist name
Jordan Dempsey
Title
Capsule 04
Description
I started using found objects during Covid-19 when I moved to Berlin with most art supply shops closed and a limited budget, each item has been handpicked off the streets on a daily walk around my block and combined into something new playing with the relationships these objects have with one another. I find it extremely interesting that all these objects had a life and served a purpose before being disregarded on the street and now the live again in an entirely new setting with a different function. Each work is relevant to the current climate and is specific to the time and location it has been produced.
Instagram: @_nuss_
Title
The Rocks I Have Taken
Artist name
Maria Sappho
Description'The Rocks I Have Taken' was created within the context of lockdown, and as such the sculptures where photographed and displayed virtually within the context of the larger project of videos, sound art, and texts, which created a spread in the online discursive political magazine, the-MASS. The April edition of the-MASS is a co-edited project by myself Maria Sappho, and Henry McPherson. Our April edition focused on art and relational creative practices on the subject of colonisation. I curated the work with interests in re-considering my involvement with stolen lands, as an American, and a travelling artist. The sound art was commissioned from colleges around the world to add diversity in the voices sharing the multitudes of histories which I collected to accompany these Venus Figurines.
Website
https://www.mariasappho.com
https://research.hud.ac.uk/institutes-centres/irimas/
Artist name
Jane Peng
Title
Videos and plants to combat social distancing
Description Since we couldn't quite go outdoors, I brought the outdoors in by way plants and used them to furnish the space I was showcasing my paintings. (It helped that I also have 40+ plants at home so they could go on a steady rotation). Plants also help ward off cabin fever during lock down because you aren't staring at four slabs of walls but spending time in close proximity to nature, being amongst living things. I feel that they "softened" the space where my paintings were hanging. When taking calls with prospective clients before they made a purchase decision, I also used the video feature to show them the paintings in the actual space at home, and they could ask me to focus on a specific area of the painting so they can get a better look at the texture/things that can be harder to capture via photos. It basically worked like a virtual walk through in an art gallery. Adding the plants must have added to the liveliness of the scene, as on one occasion I sold three paintings to one client after a single call!
Instagram janepengart
Artist name
Charlie Barkus
Title
Studio Exhibition response to 'becomes their talking point'
DescriptionA Salon style exhibition display held in my shared studio between me and Aaron Scott Griffin. We both took artwork, found images, and random objects from our studio and displayed them together; giving equal importance to everything. We tried to be as free as possible when curating the wall and discussed placement through action. We followed my instructions for a recent online show www.squeezeit2020.co.uk
- Gather objects and images from your house.
- Curate and display them together as an exhibition in a room at your house.
- Only invite people to the private view who live in your house.
Instagram charliebarkus
Artist name
George W Stewart
Title
Wild Garden
Description
During lock down I made this series of mono prints exploring our lost connection with natural during quarantine. I had been racking my brain thinking about how to display these works online, playing around with many different options. My final idea was to take photos while on my daily walks then use them as the backdrop for my artwork.
vimeo.com/georgewilliamstewart
georgewstewart.bigcartel.com/
georgewstewart.co.uk/
instagram.com/georgewstewart_/
Artist name
Dacc E Dukjan
Title
My own Lock down gallery experience
DescriptionMy own lock down house gallery in the kids and pet play corner
Instagram @ddukwoodartpaper.
Artist Name
Enzo Marra
Title:
Legs (Media enamel on linen)
Description: I have found some comfort and continuity in having my paintings around my flat, arranged in a haphazard display of leaning canvases across the rooms. The opportunity to just view them, consider them further, see things which I had not originally perceived, allowing me to understand myself and my practise in a slower and more honest way. My newer paintings coming together and drying out, in close proximity to their recent predecessors.
http://www.axisweb.org/p/enzomarra
https://www.instagram.com/enzomarraart/
Title
Enigt
『Cadenza in Jeunehomme』
The world connected by sound. Kaoru Shibuta translates musical notes into painting. Right here, if Mozart is the one who composes music to link the terrestrial world to the celestial world, I am the one who undertakes him to propagate it with my painting.
https://www.saatchiart.com/account/artworks/1243430
http://instagram.com/shibuta_arts
Artist name
Simon Fell
Title
Artists Video Blog on IGTV
DescriptionA photo of the IGTV page of my Instagram account.
During the Corona virus lockdown this year I started a video blog about my ceramic sculpture work. I did this because my open studio event was called off by the pandemic and because I was finally ready to use this medium to talk about my work and what is behind it.
sfella55 on Instagram
Artist name
Craig Barber Instagram: @craigabarber
Title
A lifeless planet, and yet still serving some useful purpose... I hope
Description I am interested in making works that exist in a moment of tension, between construction and collapse and allude to the fragility of social and political systems. The method of display here – tethered to a tree – further extends this discourse.
Instagram: @craigabarber
Title
We Owe Ourselves to Others
Artist name
Rups Cregeen
Description
After the arrival of the pandemic, curation of my work had to be rethought as access to the studio was closed with most of my work locked inside. This constraint offered a new freedom to show work in any environment I chose. So, whilst people were forced indoors, my work was released outdoors into its own watery environment. My physical degree show was seen by no-one and was present for only a few hours at dawn. Humankind contracted but my work expanded.
Instagram: @rupscregeen
Artist name
Arron Hansford
Title
Lowry
DescriptionDuring the lockdown for covid 19 pandemic we gave birth to our baby daughter Lowry, during the pregnancy in these unusual times we have been in home isolation, having lost my studio access in town, i have turned to digital painting to communication and display our experiences as new parents during the pandemic.
Instagram arronhansford
Artist name
Stepanka Facerova
Title
Cambridge I and Cambridge II (2018)
DescriptionSince I was in lockdown and couldn't work from my studio I decided to install my artwork at different places in my house. This triptych inspired by the Cambridge landscape ended up being hanged from the ceiling in my kitchen.
Instagram stepf2018 or www.stepankafacerova.com
Jodie Cutting
Title
Hung Out for the Public Eye
DescriptionI aimed to find a way to present a concertina sequence of filmic-style photographs within my home boundary during lockdown. Resembling the way that photographers often hang images in a dark room to dry, I found that hanging them on my washing line was the perfect way to display my images within the limited parameters of home.
Instagram arty_jodie
Artist name
Susan Williams MRSS
Title
Fall Out
Description The work was made from post it notes on my dining room/office window.
The post it notes could be seen from the inside and the outside so my neighbours could see the artwork.
It was up for 6 weeks and was still sticking well but the paper curled a little bit from the sun, I think.
Instagram susanwilliamsart
Artist name
Susan Williams MRSS
Title
Missing
DescriptionI placed the bench in front of the flower bed which meant my neighbours could see.
I made several versions of the work over 2 days.
A selected photograph was displayed on The Royal Standard 48 hour art challenge Instagram.
Instagram susanwilliansart
Artist name
Heidi McEvoy-Swift
Title
Not moth
DescriptionSite specific textile work. The garden has become my gallery, my media and my meditation. As a costume designer/maker it also provides me with my new clients - the plants.
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/mcmcswift/
Artist name
Adele Karmazyn
Title
Home Gallery
DescriptionHi, I work as a Digital Photo montage Artist and have been working on a mini collection called 'Days of 2020' ... I collect imagery all the time, taking photos myself, buying 19th century cabinet photographs or drawing and painting. I mix them together using Photoshop then often hand finish.
Instagram adelekarmazynart
