Degree Show Pictures Continued....

Degree Show...

Here are some photos from my recent degree show in June...

I took the idea of using 'the system' to go on a leisurely walk, and created a video piece where the timings of the two monitors interacting, were direct results I had gained from going on a walk round Platt Fields park in Manchester. The number I recorded when rolling the dice shown in the left monitor, is then the number of minutes the monitor shows me walking on the right monitor.

The footage of me walking was taken when I went on a walk in New York in November, when I was attempting to walk the same shaped route I had done all summer in Manchester, and see how it would feel taking this physical parallel to another city...

The other piece I exhibited in the show was my most recent work, here I wanted to take a step back and discover why I had such a passion for walking, but I also wanted the work to be more physical, with more direct links to my actions.

I decided to take a 20 metre roll of paper on a walk with me, where I scuffed it and walked on it and dragged it, so the paper started to take on more of the physicality of the walk as evidence of the act, as opposed to documentation of it, which is what my previous work centred around.

I had spent a long time thinking about what it was specifically that I thought about when walking and what I did, and music seemed to be a natural focus of my walks, as I never go on one without listening to something on the journey. As this piece was a lot more personal and almost more 'real' than my other work, I decided to write down every single song I had listened to whilst walking, over about the period of a month, and printed them as a sort of playlist along the paper. The piece represents to me a personal enjoyment I gain from walking as well as showing a sense of time, in both the length of the paper and also individual times shown for each track.

Exhibitions...

Hello there, apologies that it has truly taken an age to update this blog! Been very busy with finishing my degree, which I have now done, the Degree Show went fantastically with a couple of opportunities coming my way hopefully, and I have now graduated with a Upper Second Class BA, and I am ecstatic!

In previous posts I promised I would show how the exhibition in March went, and what results I gained from introducing the new system of walking. I got some really positive and interesting comments from viewers and this really pushed my work foward to result in the pieces I exhibited in the Degree Show, therefore the title of the exhibition became almost frighteningly apt! Enjoy...