I am a current student at University of East London, studying Graphic Design and Printmaking. Art has been my passion ever since I discovered a pencil. I can’t place myself to a specific genre but if I absolutely had to it would be somewhere in between Graphic Design and Illustration. As a young artist I am still trying to define my style of work, so far I would describe it as accurate and delicate. I like to take great care of each piece and make sure it is produced to high quality or else it is not worth exposing to the world, I am definitely a perfectionist when it comes to my own work. Living in digital age it is hard to ignore all the amazing software, however I believe that handmade pieces are so much more valuable and precious compared to digital. It takes great determination to producing a handmade piece, making unintentional mistakes part of the work often leads to uniqueness, such work cannot be re produced which makes it very admirable. I guess I try to re bell against all the brand new techniques on purpose, because I like spending time on solving problems that could be corrected in no time on computer software. I get my inspiration from quite literally everywhere
Pick Me Up is a graphic art festival, filled with may upcoming talented artists, printmakers and designers. Held right by the river bank at Somerset House, it has been a kicking off the perfect start to sprint for the past few years. I haven't noticed much change in terms of layout of the exhibition from last year, I guess its all about viewing the works and taking part of workshops, the layout itself doesn't play a big part in the exhibition as such. This year I saw quite a few new featured artists and the exhibition, who are worth keeping an eye out for, such as Malarky and Hettie Stewart. Both artists have a unique style and a lot of vibrancy going on in their works. While Hettie Stewarts's works are more paper based, Malarky is out and about on the streets making London a more colourful place.
I really enjoyed the atmosphere of the whole show, it was filled with all kinds of people, creatives and those who just enjoy the art. Having numerous workshops around the place also adds to the relaxed and happy environment, and its great that you can learn a new skill while enjoying yourself at an exhibition.
I always walk away inspired after Pick Me Up shows, this year I cant wait to be able to come up with my own projects and produce more works.
This is a permanent exhibition based on Austrian architecture in 20th and 21st Centuries. The exhibition took place in a specially dedicated space for architecture at the MuseumsQuartier (Museum Square), I thought this multicultural space was great for such exhibition. Its the best way to familiarise yourself with surrounding buildings and their history if you are new to the city. In the gallery space a viewer is there to be an observer, however there were a lot of books and information provided in order to enlighten viewers knowledge of the exhibits.
A lot of architecture was taken from the modernist movement, at the beginning of the 20th Century modernism started to evolve due to technological advances and changes in society. All buildings were simplified and stripped from the decorative details, with various geometric shapes introduced. This particular architectural movement is one of my favourites, mostly because I believe an architectural structure looks at its best in a simple form and when able to preform the given purpose. While looking around the gallery I tried to pick out parts of design that are useful to my practise, the two works that caught my eye were a car advertisement poster which used some lovely typography and beautiful illustrations, and a cover of an architecture journal, very minimal composition and great use of type with photography.
After viewing this exhibition, I really wanted to explore the city and find some of the buildings to view them in person. During our trip we managed to find two architectural pieces around the city, and they looked magnificent in real life.
The Typopassage Vienna
"Although lettering is for the most part taken for granted and not consciously perceived it is indeed one of the most important cultural media of our world"
As a typography enthusiast I was glad to see that one of Vienna's biggest Art and Design museums has dedicated a separate space just for type.
This was a single artists exhibition by MacDonald Gill held at the Kemistry Gallery. The exhibition layout was quite nice, the room was surrounded by various maps and in the middle of the floor there were three dimensional objects placed on a table which were connected to the subject of maps, items collected by travelling etc. I didn't find this particular exhibition interesting, I don't have much interest in maps and couldn't really connect to the theme of these particular works.
Google Web Lab was a cross discipline exhibition, held at the Science Museum. I found the atmosphere of this exhibition very exciting, and I could see how it brought out children in adults. At the entrance you have to go up to a tiny machine which gives you a card at the press of a button, each card is different with colourful geometric shapes on it. This card is provided in order to operate the instruments and other interactive objects at the exhibition. As a viewer I felt really involved in the show, and wanted to try all the different innovations Google has offered us. I thought it was great the way people on the other side of the world were being filmed or were controlling some of the interactive objects via internet. It was great to see art being mixed with technology and science, and people being excited about scientific and technological experiments.
One of my favourite pieces was the musical machine, where you could produce music by connecting various coloured dots on the screen, each dot represented and instrument that was boxed in a see through container in front of you.
Overall I thought this exhibition was a great success, very inspirational and fun.
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