First show in the triangle space at Chelsea.

Before we ended for Christmas last year we had an exhibition. The year was split into two groups week 1 and 2. I was in week 2. Week 1s show was good however I felt like bits of it were still not working when it came to to the private view, I might be biased here.
The week was worked out like this; Monday- Curation day, Tuesday- Final Curation day. 5.30pm Opening night and private view. Wednesday- open to public, Thursday- 2nd years critique work. Friday- show to be taken down, all works removed.
I really valued the experience, the curation in particular was interesting for me (having not done any before), not only did it mean that you were made to interact with people you perhaps didn't know, but you learnt about them and their work, we ended up doing a mini sort of crit basically we all had to do a hello my name is, this is my work, this is what it's about, this is how I would like it shown, which I think was worth while although slightly time consuming. There was then a lot of rushing around and placing works here there, lots of trying out ideas. Having been told it was a group show, and to be reasonably flexible with the hanging of my work, I decided to go round and talk with people about their work and assist them with there on. Other people may have been more selfish and devoted their time to making sure that their work was more in the limelight of the exhibition. Noticeable. Which I would have been like if I was happy and proud of my work. As it was I wasn't particularly. I did at points during the curation days become frustrated, exasperated, irritated etc. not always with individuals but with how changing the show could be bits of it would work and then none of it would. But when it did, it was rewarding. It made us happy.
I was pretty pleased with the show as an end result and the experience in general.

Here are some photographs I took during curation and on the night.

These frames on the wall is what I did for the exhibition. My piece consisted of a map of the tube in the bottom of the frame, a photographic image, and a bit of writing. Basically the piece was made from me following people on the tube. Now there was some rules to the following. i was to keep within zone one and two. If they changed lines I could follow them. I was only to follow them underground. I wouldn't therefore follow them up the escalators and through the barriers. 

There was no real choosing about who'd i'd follow I perhaps should've stood by the barriers and said to myself next person who walks through that barrier I will follow, often it wasn't as simple as that though,  I found myself debating reasons in my head. Sometimes its because they looked like a typical london commuter, they looked interesting, I like some aspect about them-therefore they intrigued me, I felt they may be going somewhere interesting.. anything like that really, thinking back a refinement I would make would be to make a stricter rule of how to select my subjects. I think I would make other constraints. I'd also change how I presented my findings, or experiment a bit more with ideas. Sometimes I felt like a stalker other times like a spy. Since doing the piece i've found myself seeing people I'd like to follow but not being able to because I had other plans. So the map element, show the route they take, from when they get on the tube, to when they leave, or when I lose them, which did occasionally happen. Which lead me to think i wouldn't make a good spy. The photograph is of the subject. I wasn't going to necessarily be Black and white. But I think It works well this way. And adds a sort of spy CCTV quality. The written element is maybe the more conceptual bit, this is where some of the underlying thoughts and feeling come in, here I written down my observations, and some presumptions and ideas about the subject. This is to highlight the snap judgements we make about people, without helping it, the piece is about broadly the tube/public transport in London, but particularly looking at social behaviour. The piece I'm quite happy for people to interpret how they will, and all feedback has been interesting. How I've presented it is quite precise, or ideally precise as possibly. I tried to measure things. There are some things I would make neater and more precise, given the chance, how it was hung is precise as well, I measured the distance between its frame edge, so it should be the same, along with the height. Someone suggested to me when I was talking about my work and how I'd like it hung to hang it below eye line, as a subtle comment on it being done underground. This I'm sure was not noticed by the audience/viewers of the exhibition as the reason why. But I liked the idea and went along with it. It was important though that it could still be read. 

Its location in the exhibition was across the popcorn. This was done so that people would have to walk on the popcorn (which was the intention) to see my work. My worry was that my work would not be seen therefore because people would not dare cross the popcorn. And therefore my work would miss out, thinking back I should've waited longer before stepping on the popcorn myself. Since I was the first.

Anyway here is some more photographs of other works in the show. (not by me) 

Starting with more individuals works

Interaction with works (artist did not direct interaction but was happy for it to happen, it was up to the audience to do what they liked, once viewing had commenced she said it was out of her hands). Above   Photograph is before any interaction. 

Overall show.

Show put on my students. 

Exhibition of their own works.