Monday, 1 July 2013


I went to a couple of art galleries to see some exhibitions from the Look13 event. The galleries I visited were the Bluecoat and the Walker Art Gallery. I was looking at the way the images are printed and presented as research for our exhibition. 

This was part of the 'I Exist (In Some Way)' exhibition by various artists. These images were obviously hung and lit in a specific way, but I didn't like it at all. The images were only viewable from a certain angle. If you stand under the images and look up at them, they were completely unviewable and blocked by the reflection from the lights. You could only see the images properly from far away which isn't ideal because you can't get close enough to appreciate the details of the images and to see how they were printed. I thought this was a poor way to display photographs.



The following image was Rankin's exhibition 'Alive In The Face Of Death' at the Walker Art Gallery. I loved this exhibition and I really liked the quality of the prints and how they were displayed. They were very crisp and clear and flat to the wall, like it was just the print with a piece of Perspex over them. They looked very good and very professional. 


The prints below were from the 'Every man and Woman is a Star' exhibition by Martin Parr and Tom Wood at the Walker Art Gallery. The reason I photographed these is to show the different shape and size of prints they have displayed all in the same size frames. They all look really good despite what size the print is, which shows that it does not matter what size we as a class decide to print our images, we can all have the same frames and it will look great.