- Hauser and Wirth Somerset – Commercial gallery turned farm into a gallery, famous gardeners worked on their gardens, lots of expensive sculptures. Also bought deceased artists houses.
- Commissioned work – it is a juggle, how do you do it your way but still how they want? They want your work but how they want it. You have to think is it something you want to do?
Quayperlake
- They wanted a show based on work of South West photographers, but Simon wanted to make a twist on it. He didn’t want to just include pics of trees/landscapes. He wanted to expand on it and make it more interesting, politics, change etc, could he provide more meaning?
- Created a narrative journey of artefacts, photos, videos etc. Relationship between the lake and the people living around it. The lake coming alive.. doesn’t like how this gallery has come in and changed the landscape and tried to show what it thought the English landscape was. Then the water would eventually erode down the gallery (not actually), but through videos/photos, suggesting it through the way he curates the show.
- How can you manipulate the viewers?/make the viewer think a certain thing? or maybe you can’t?
- In this exhibition they used the different styled rooms and different work to make the viewers feel different.
- The video loop with sound felt maybe quite strong, then you move to a white room, with windows, looking almost like a museum. Plinths, framed work, artefacts etc, making it look more like a factual file of it all.
- Some brand new work, some older work. The owners wanted all the artists to be from Somerset/ had something to do with Somerset. He took that loosely so he could make the exhibition better.
- He wanted the art to act as artefacts.
- When a piece of art is isolated, it can make them more ‘special’ even though they are ordinary things.
- Little human presence in the show and the human presence in it is concealed. SO the audience is the human presence.
- Small scale prints can make you concentrate, you have to go closer and look. Changing scales makes the viewers do different things, makes them walk around.
- What brings attention?
- Scale?
- Colour?
- Video?
- Sound?
- Positioning?
- They were picking images in one particular room where human culture attempting to tame nature. Natural landscapes but scaped by human hands.
- Where as other one is more of a wild environment.
- Makes you think if Jems dew pools are man made or natural? Getting the viewers to ask questions and think.
- Positioning of sculptures – disturbing viewers path.
- Last room – human nature falling apart. Death, water is more present, eroding the gallery away. Horse – representation of changing landscape/human destruction. Pointing to upper class, a posh thoroughbred, not a shire working horse. Sort of looks like the aftermath. A lot of paintings in that room, no photos. Photos are like proof and its still there, whereas paintings are worn down etc.
- Through a tiny drip of water, it can lead up to a disaster, destroying the human presence. They made an irrigation system to plop in 3 places in the last room to bring the presence of water.
- Mini leaflet, but wanting to show the exhibition on paper form, not just information. In the exhibition there was no captions to say what the work was or who it was by.
- Depending on the format, the presentations format may be different. But think about what context you are giving to the audience to see the content.
- Took all the work out of context and put them all under a new context.
Isobel Percy 