Alexia Sinclair

Alexia Sinclair: Behind the Scenes - Macbeth from Sultana Studios on Vimeo.

I wanted to share that I have just discovered an artist that i felt instantly produced incredible beautiful and engaging images. Alexia Sinclair is an Australian photographer and digital artist that is Incredibly skilled in photography and in using Photoshop. I only just stumbled onto a video about her last night whilst browsing Jasper Goodall’s work but instantly her work went straight up to be one of my favorite artists, and it was really quite exciting looking at her work and watching the videos of her work in progress for the first time last night.

Jasper Goodall

SP 2010 Speaker - Jasper Goodall from Semi Permanent on Vimeo.

Jasper Goodall is one of my favourite artists who I have blogged about before. He is a Brighton based illustrator whose been working for a while now but this is the first video I have seen him so I thought I would post it. Enjoy.

Greenpeace Airplot Bargehouse Exhibition

I am really happy to say that I entered the Greenpeace Airplot competition and I my work along with other students from Kingston University have been selected to be in the Bargehouse Gallery which is exhibiting the short and long list entries. The brief for the competition was to create a sustainable defensive structure that can be used to house activists for long periods of time and is capable of holding of the bulldozers. The exhibition is on the 2-6 June at the Bargehouse Gallery along the Southbank in London.

2-6 June, 11am-6pm

Nic Clear at the Lobby Gallery, Bartlett School of Architecture,UCL

The Vectorw∗rks exhibition at Lobby Gallery, Wates House, Bartlett School of Architecture,UCL had some really beautiful images by Nic Clear who is Director of the Diploma/MArch Architecture, Theory Co-ordinator of the MArch Architectural Design (AVATAR) and Unit Leader of Unit 15 at the Bartlett School of Architecture. The images were all based on the CAD design packages and the images were highlighted in light boxes showing of the colours, but the exhibition was set in a lobby at the UCL University and after spending most of the day trying to find the small exhibition it was a little disappointing to be viewing the work in a lobby of a busy entrance. So I wished I could have gone to the private viewing.

4-29 May 2010

Private View 4 May 2010 6.00 - 8.30pm

Ten Years of the Tate Modern

Unfortunately I was really disappointed with the ten year anniversary of the Tate Modern and of the events that went with it in the Tate’s turbine hall. The turbine hall was filled with a huge number of people but I have to be honest I had no idea what was going on, whether the people were artists or whether they were trying to sell me something. A lot of the modern art at the Tate really isn’t my type of thing but I really wanted to try to get into the whole vibe at the exhibition when I went but I found myself wanting to leave. I also found myself feeling very confused whilst walking around the various exhibits that seemed to link into one another’s wondering what was happening and how I should be feeling about the (art). The event felt like a mess but a bit of a beautiful mess I guess.

Ron Arad's Restless at the Barbican

Ron Arad's Restless at the Barbican is a great exhibition which shows how a person’s curiosity in design forms can create elegant chairs to contemporary homes and shopping centres. One thing I noticed at the exhibition is how much of a perfectionist Ron Arad is. One of the exhibition pieces was a chair under development and it was covered with Ron Arad’s notes on how to improve the chairs form, these notes went into quite a lot of detailing noticing very small areas of improvement. A lot of the forms created were very natural and were covered with a chrome finish. This was complimented with the use of the LED lighting displays around the exhibition as the light highlighted the curves and the forms. My favourite piece at the exhibition was the chair called Voiding which is in the image at the bottom of this post. This chair was incredible beautiful its chrome orange sides were complimented by the dark top surface and when the light hit the curved sides it almost looked like a solar flare or a highly polished shell.

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at the the Barbican

This exhibition at the Curve gallery in the Barbican Centre was an unexpected pleasant surprise. I actually went to the Barbican to see Ron Arad's Restless exhibition when noticed the poster for Céleste Boursier-Mougenot’s instillation containing a flock of Zebra finches that are freely flying around and interacting with the exhibitions viewers whilst using electric guitars and cymbals as perches, feeding and drinking areas. All the musical instruments are connected to speakers with the aim of creating a soundscape. This exhibition is defiantly one my favourite exhibitions I have been to, the birds are very friendly and if you stand still long enough they play on your shoes and perch on your shoulders. The birds interaction with the musical instruments was also captivating as they were trying to make nests in amongst the guitar strings a sound was generated.

27 February 2010 - 23 May 2010
Free admission
Open daily 11am-8pm
Open late every Thu until 10pm