I recently took part in an exhibition that took place in Leicester, in the Two Queens Gallery. This exhibition was held and run by a group of second year students. The title of the exhibition that took place was called ‘The Ubiquitous Individual’ to be ubiquitous is to be found everywhere, the individual is everywhere, you just have to look.
I decided to put two pieces of artwork into this gallery as the pieces of artwork I displayed really complemented each other and looked more effective besides one another. The entry fee for the gallery £5 however it was an extra £3 to put an extra piece in which I did as I believe both of my prints really did work well together.
Here are the two pieces of artwork I submitted to the Two Queens art exhibition. The pieces of name do not have a title to them. There were a few issues and problems getting these printed off, when I first originally printed the pieces of art work off on the wide format printer they came out very dark and dull looking, they almost looked like a black sheet of paper, I also realised that they were on matt paper, which may have been on of the many issues. After doing some editing on Lightroom on a mac book, making them brighter and also alternating the saturation on it, as when you look at an image on your phone or laptop it automatically makes it brighter for you where as if you printed it out it would look completely different, a lot darker. So after doing some editing on Lightroom, I then decided that it would look a lot more interesting and vibrant on glossy paper as it would make the colours really pop and shine through.
After deciding what paper to print it out on, I then had to decide what size to print it out, so I printed the two pieces of art work out in size A1 and also A2. The way I made my decision was to hang them all up on the wall and to see which ones were more effective, so by slowly walking back and looking at my art work I realised that the further you walked back the more you started to lose the marks and colours within the size A2 one. I wanted my work to be noticeable and effective from a distance, where you could see all the fine lines and all the different layers so in the end I decided to go with A1. When printing the print a bigger size I noticed that it had started to lose focus, some of the details started to become fuzzy and blurry which was really disheartening to see as I wanted them to be perfect. However I managed to resolve that problem with Lightroom, it didn’t make the print perfect however it did sort out most of the blurriness.
Another issue I had when deciding how I was going to install my work was how I would hang it on the wall. I originally wanted to frame the prints and then hang them on the wall however due to the prints being printed on glossy paper, it would create a shine between the glass and the glossy print which would create a blind spot where the audience wouldn’t be able to see my art work due to there being a shine on it. So I decided to hang them up bull dog clips and hammer the bottom section to the wall to prevent the art work from curving.
Here are my pieces of artwork displayed on a screen.
These images were taken on the opening night which took place 3rd March. The opening night was very effective and a lot of people came to support and see all the amazing art work.