Red Thread Trail: Sunday 24th Febuary

Now my home is back to its normal format, and papers, pictures and furniture are making it look as if nothing out of the ordinary has happened! Well it is not quite the mess that it usually is! I’ve had time to think about the experience and I feel glad that I took the plunge to experiment with using my home as an exhibition space. I have all the props now to do this again, and will definatly use it in the future, and might try it for selling my prints at some point. I might team up with other Whitstable people. Who knows?

I did not have time to speak about the Light Exhibition at the Haward gallery. On Thursday I went up to London for the UCA Student experience conference. I took advantage of the fact that the venue was just behind the Southbank Centre to go to the Hayward Gallery. With the Art Fund pass that we students have been given you can get in for £5.00! Well that is nearly half the price of a ticket with a student reduction. I recommend this current exhibition 'Light Show'. As well as getting the chance to see a pieces by legendary artists Dan Flavin and James Turrel it was a revelation to discover an extraordinary piece by Katie Paterson whose light replicated the moon light when it was positioned opposite the sun. It was very subtly beautiful. Another work that overwhelmed me with its beauty was an untitled piece by Doug Wheeler. The different impacts that light have on different paint surfaces fascinates me. I had not realised that there were so many different qualities of light. LED, tungsten, fluorescent etc. ... Well maybe I had, but I had not thought about it so expansively within the context of Art.

I timed my visit after four, so the place was packed with 'eager to educated their young' parents. Well lets face it, it is a good one for kids, but it meant that I hardly got a chance to see Anthony McCall’s piece nearly blocked out by busy shadows! and the queues for Ivan Navarro’s work stretched through to the next gallery!