Exhibition

For weeks, we have been setting up our exhibition, transforming our classroom into a gallery to exhibit all the students work. This has consisted of me sanding boxes, painting, mounting, framing and hanging my work ready for the night on the 18th of June.

For my exhibition, I had decided against using my final colour portraits, and went for some of my stronger work instead. These were the photographs selected.

Photographs selected, mounted and framed, which I had done independently. 

Photographs hung for the first time. I noticed that when the landscape photographs were hung, they came away from the wall because the hangers were too low down, so I unscrewed them and rescrewed them higher up to stop the tilting. As well as this, the photographs started to come away from the mounting board, which after feedback from tutors I decided to change, to avoid putting myself in a worse position for my final grades.

Although the photographs needed remounting, I arranged the frames properly so that I could easily finish my pieces after mounting.

After moving the hangers, the photographs sat nicely on the wall.

During a group crit, I got some fantastic feedback from both tutors and students. A main talking point was the order that my work was in (as seen above). Having the nude woman as my centerpiece lead to a big discussion, as it was feared that it sexualised my work due to the 'male gaze', but on moving the photographs to have the bodies together, I felt it sexualised it far further than before, having two nude women together. I also felt that it split my work apart, seeming like two separate sets, and I didn't like having a landscape and portrait next to each other. We tried rearranging the photographs a few times, but myself and my peers preferred the original arrangement, which I returned my work to.

Also, I remounting the photograph of the man on the far left after reprinting it to make the photograph smoother in the frame. I also put all the photographs against the glass instead of slightly back, which stopped the problem of the prints coming away from the mounting card, the final mounts can be seen below. (This is not the final order, this is experimenting by moving the prints)