The Mission Gallery

There is an interesting exhibition in The Mission Gallery of Claire Curneen’s sculptures. Although I have looked at her work before, it was a completely different experience seeing the “characters” in person and displayed in an old converted church. This gave certain sculptures a strange religious reference from having certain details such as nails sticking out of their torsos or nettle-like crowns surrounding their heads.

As I was the only visitor at the time I found silence had an unusually unnerving effect on me, as if the sculptures were watching me.

(The images above were taken from the exhibition of Claire Curneen’s work)

When asked to create a visual response to Curneen’s work the first thing I thought of was how on certain sculptures it wasn’t the details that seemed to be important but rather the shapes. Using this as inspiration I used some of my images of close up faces as well as people standing, turned them black and white and printed them out onto A4 normal paper. I then layered the image with clean white A4 papers so the image became impossible to see except for when a light is hitting the back of the frame. This gave me the outline of the person, almost in a toned down way, where areas were not quite in focus. Although I am not entirely happy with these images it is something I enjoyed experimenting with and may continue experimenting with in my practise.

 

(The images above I created myself)

Quiet on set!!

On Tuesday 11th February 2014 I was lucky enough to be in the street where a scene from the new Dylan Thomas film was being set up. I found it really incredible to see how a small crew could transform a street in Swansea into a wintery day in New York. It was very interesting to see how a scene from a film is shot also and how many times it had to be done to ensure all the camera angles were correct or even small details such as how fast a car goes past in the foreground. The way this team and system worked really interested me as they all worked together during each scene in almost silence.

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The above slideshow shows some of the pictures I have taken, however, some are not great quality as it was dark, I had no tripod and was not allowed to use flash (for obvious reasons).

Lost Boy

On the 31st January 2014 I went to watch this musical in Charing Cross Theatre in London. I wasn’t expecting much from this musical as a review I had read described it as “Peter Pan re-told… Jon as a gay trapeze artist and Tinkerbell a common prostitute…” however, I found it really enjoyable and imaginative as it showed Peter Pan as a captain in the British Army during the First World War cleverly including key characters in the novel in different ways.