BA (Hons) Book Arts and Design
Book? What comes to mind? This exhibition explores the book in the widest possible creative sense.
Kristine Bumeistere's 'Growth' is a wall mounted sculpture of diary pulp, flower seeds and water encased in tights. She has pulped her diaries in an attempt to forget the memories and release herself from sleeplessness and negative emotions. The resulting book object is now growing into something else: a metamorphosis of despair into hope. I liked the idea that by physically changing the diaries into a new form the artist has achieved a powerful liberating release.
Sky Nash's ' Natural v Unnatural Toys for Children' raised many questions in my mind about the effect of toys and gadgets upon children and left me wondering what impact digital media is having on children's social and creative skills as well as their capacity for immaginative play.
Clever, thought-provoking illustrations were bound into two A5 digitally printed books. One book dealt with 'natural' toys, the other 'unnatural.
Tanya Kingston's 'Mediations on Exile' consists of a sash window and a perfect casebound book. The exile is displaced having fled her homeland. Through the use of found poetry a monologue is created to explore the subject of displacement. I was interested in the use of found poetry having created poems using cut up text myself and I appreciated the way the text had been laid out on the page with effective use of white space. The symbolic use of the window conveyed an unsettling sense of being here but also being somewhere else and belonging nowhere.
I constantly feel overwhelmed by the excess of information available to us today through the internet. Dorottya Kollo explores the role of information in times past and today in her work 'The reader who plays God' circular book and DVD.
The DVD was most engrossing with excellent images and effective narration. It consisted of carefully selected quotes about books, reading and knowledge. For me the best quote was:
'a writer only begins a book a reader finishes it'
Samuel Johnson
Glad you enjoyed this. I couldnt find your email either to say thank you for this!!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad I came to look around the exhibition. I've put my email in the CONTACT ME tab at the top of this blog. I like
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I am so pleased you enjoyed my exhibit, and my experimentation with found poetry.
ReplyDeleteIt is amazing how found poetry can work so effectively - I love taking the spaces within the book (and beyond) and experimenting in this way. Thank you so much for reviewing it!
Thank you for your comment. I enjoyed looking round the exhibition and was impressed with the range of work. Do continue to explore found poetry and the spaces within the book.
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