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Wednesday, 6 May 2015

Whitworth

I visited the Whitworth art gallery with university.





The blog keeps crashing I can't write more than a few lines.
To explain why I have resubmitted and edited this post, As you can see from my first line while I was writing this post blogger kept crashing I had plenty of time to write the post if it had been under normal circumstances but due to a technical error outside of my control I could not write this on the 6th of may. If you need a witness to my technical difficulties Connor from Motion design saw everything and saw my distress. Also I noticed on the due date on moodle it said the 8th at 4:05 I have screenshots to prove this.

The 3 exhibits are fantastic and all feature a dominate motif of destruction and how it brings about awareness. I think all of the touch up on important social issues Feminism, war, and loss. You may even say the work conveys a loss of innocence. It felt like I was really experiencing the destruction depicted in these pieces as I walked through the places they were displayed. They all made me think about the world around me and the fragility of it. The work itself did not inspire any of my practical work or inform my keywords essay even though Sarah Lucas had many ideas that I could have translated into my essay.

Out side these main three exhibits I saw a lot of work that I could few from a feminist perceptive and many had connotations linking to war. two piece which stood out to me were the dress made from camo and the room with the waste material from remembrance day poppies, Both have clear links with war and the camo dress felt like it was trying to push the boundaries of what is and isn't feminine or making a statement that femininity is perceived and is a social construct rather than rooted in nature. 






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