Curating Space

Having gained further knowledge considering the curatorial aspects of installing collective works, I decided to apply this to my own practice. I found this an especially useful tool in terms of considering which pieces worked most successfully as an exhibition of collective pieces, and which pieces worked best as an art installation.
I have regularly used a minimal space within the university to practice the installations of the work, keeping a documentation of curation. Each time when having produced a new series of work to then bring together a select grouping to document. This has been a useful routine, and has allowed me to view my work and see its potential in a variety of ways. Also bringing a fresh and new way to how the perception of the work can become very versatile.
Having recently visited Lorna Simpson’s exhibition at the Baltic Art Gallery, it encouraged me to think more about the placement of the work in order for the narrative within the work to have clarity. Her practice is too multi-disciplinary and she works with text and image but also photography, film and drawing, all of which coexist as a collective archive using photography as the catalyst for each piece. In a similar way I use photography as a catalyst but also as a way of developing my drawing and three dimensional pieces into a progression of abstraction.