Exhibition Photos

The fist two pieces of my degree exhibition were shown back to back on either side of a wall, perfectly in line: a canvas cut out with light behind and a print caught in between two layers of Perspex. Both pieces are 24” wide and 31” tall and are hung so that the top edge is 5’5” from the ground (artist’s height).

The canvas with a cut out design in a silhouette shape looks at a person as a beautiful product, but the light emitting from within makes this a hopeful piece. In contrast the print shows a vulnerability and insecurity, destroyed from within. The print is shown in a highly professional way to juxtapose the honest and unglamorous imagery.

Perspex tube filled with paper circles and a fluorescent strip light behind shows the magazine as paper, stripped of all its glossy power, with only small sections of its “perfect” imagery in view. Exhibited horizontally invites the viewer to peer between the pages backlit with an almost halo of white light.