Today has been a tiring but inspiring day, jam packed with
enough art to last the next month! Nadja and I went on a trip with uni to visit
some art galleries in London. When I say SOME galleries, I actually mean we went
to quite ALOT, 8 in total! We started our day looking around Tate Britain. We
could have spent much longer in here as there was sooo much to look at, it was
like a massive maze of rooms with a variety of different displays, it was easy
to get lost!
I was personally fascinated with the ‘Family Matters’
exhibition since the theme linked to my current studio work focusing on portraiture
of my friends and family. I Loved seeing David Hockney’s painting ‘My Parents, 1977’ in real life as his
brightly coloured portraits are influential to my work. I also liked seeing
George Clausen’s paintings up close as I think his portraits are really
convincing in portraying the humble character of his subjects.
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| Tate Britian |
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| David Hockney, My Parents 1977 |
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| John Singer Sargent, The Misses Vickers, 1884 |
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| George Clausen, Brown Eyes 1891 |
Vija Celmins painstakingly beautiful works were on display
in Tate too. There was something quite eerie and disturbing beneath the surface
of her small scale monotone works, the obsessive techniques and highly skilful process
evoked questions to the meaning and reason of making artworks.
In the afternoon we were marching from one gallery to the
next. We went to the Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Bischoff/Weiss, Timothy Taylor
Gallery, Spruth Magers, Hauser&Wirth, Pace London, and Marlborough
Contemporary. The Marlborough Contemporary was showing works by Jason Brooks
which were really intriguing. He created photorealistic paintings of impasto surfaces
which looked so 3D from a distance, yet were actually flat on a close
inspection with apparent lines and brushstokes.
The Timothy Taylor Gallery had a solo exhibition by Fiona
Rae, which received mixed reactions from our group. I thought her large and
small scale canvases were a lively and cheerful mix of spontaneous abstract marks
and colour, combined with fun and quirky panda motifs. The recurring stars,
flowing patterns and cute pandas were visually pleasing and had an obvious decorative
purpose. However, I did think that the paintings felt empty of any deeper meaning
and were just purely aesthetic works.
I think we definitely made the most of the trip, and bet we
all came home exhausted with aching legs, sore feet and heads exploding with
art!
Rachael
In the afternoon we were marching from one gallery to the
next. We went to the Bernard Jacobson Gallery, Bischoff/Weiss, Timothy Taylor
Gallery, Spruth Magers, Hauser&Wirth, Pace London, and Marlborough
Contemporary. The Marlborough Contemporary was showing works by Jason Brooks
which were really intriguing. He created photorealistic paintings of impasto surfaces
which looked so 3D from a distance, yet were actually flat on a close
inspection with apparent lines and brushstokes. 
The Timothy Taylor Gallery had a solo exhibition by Fiona
Rae, which received mixed reactions from our group. I thought her large and
small scale canvases were a lively and cheerful mix of spontaneous abstract marks
and colour, combined with fun and quirky panda motifs. The recurring stars,
flowing patterns and cute pandas were visually pleasing and had an obvious decorative
purpose. However, I did think that the paintings felt empty of any deeper meaning
and were just purely aesthetic works. 
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