Pick me up was a contemporary graphic art fair, filled with great young artists and designers. I feel like this exhibition has been the most relevant to my practice this year, as there were displays of various printmaking works and a few graphic design pieces. The fair took place at the Somerset House, this place is quite well known for holding out door cinema viewings and its historical background.
Pick me up was spread across three different levels of the building, as a viewer I felt like the work was leading me through the space because I wanted to see more. The great part of this event was that not only could I be an observer, I was given an opportunity to take part in producing work by participating in various workshops.Having workshops at such event is a great idea! After viewing amazing pieces of work at the gallery I felt very inspired and taking part in creating something on the spot can prove to be challenging and fun at the same time, a good way to test imagination too.
I really admire most work at the fair, but my favourites were all collages by Krisjana S Williams, she uses nature as her main theme for her work. I particularly like a butterfly piece, which has been collaged on to a gold background using various beautiful colourful butterfly wings.
I also really enjoyed a series of small screen prints by Michael Kirkham called 'Inside'. The series contains three prints of the same image screen printed in single different colours.
This fair has motivated me a lot and I also picked up some ideas for future projects, it has given me something to aspire to for the future.
