Longroad Art Exhibition

ART EXHIBITION

i visited the A2 Art Exhibition at my college (Longroad 6th form college in Cambridge). i am currently studying Art and Design National Diploma and in year 12 going into year 13. i felt the year 2's work was different to year 1's (12's) because it was more in depth and the analysis of their work was more detailed, also i felt like they had done more research into their chosen theme and taken a huge interest into their work.

Two students who's work interested me the most was Imogen Dungate and Ian Todd. Imogen based her work around 'DECAY' and what objects look like when left to decay. i really liked how she filled her work with detail and colours that she used in her pieces. Ian Todd focused on computer animated art and wacom drawings. His work was bold, bright and colourful and really eyecatching and was a pleasure to see his work.

i looked in SIX sketchbooks from various art students and picked TEN artists that i would like to explore further and who's work caught my attention.

JOHN CLANG

KATHERINE HOUSTON

KATHY KELLY

TAI SHAN SCHIERENBERG

PAUL WRIGHT

JENIFFER NOOD

JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN

EDWARD COLLIER

J.D HILLBURY

ANA CABALEIRO

i could tell that the students had taken their artists research work into consideration when creating their pieces of work and had an influence in the development of their work also. such as they had taken the skills that they had got from their chosen artists and used them in their work e.g the style of painting, the way a textile artist put an outfit together etc.

while walking around the exhibition i noticed some skills and materials and techniques that i hadn't used before such as the use of 3D objects and created art from them. And also the use of real food to see the decay and effects of it when left. i also haven't used a polaroid camera before.

the overall exhibition inspired me greatly and i chose THREE themes that i would be interested in exploring next year, these where:

DECAY

FACES (human form, identity)

ANIMALS