I decided after a year it was time to draw a line under the Absolute Magnitude project. I think I really should have imposed a timetable, which would perhaps have given more results. However, what we got was really interesting, and also shows what it possible from a few small pieces. I hope for other joint ventures, and may soon put a proposal in the MA OCA site.
Absolute Magnitude is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness, or an expression of a star's luminosity.
It allows the true brightnesses of objects to be compared without regard to distance.
Current and past MA Fine Art students from the Open College Arts contributed a piece to this travelling exhibition, which was sent as a package to each other to show in any display or exhibition context. The brief was that the piece was postcard size, and upon the theme Sun.
Documentation would only revealed to each other at the end of the project.
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Absolute Magnitude
Absolute Magnitude is the measure of a celestial object's intrinsic brightness, or an expression of a star's luminosity.
It allows the true brightnesses of objects to be compared without regard to distance.
Current and past MA Fine Art students from the Open College Arts contributed a piece to this travelling exhibition, which was sent as a package to each other to show in any display or exhibition context. The brief was that the piece was postcard size, and upon the theme Sun.
Documentation would only revealed to each other at the end of the project.
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James Kowacz
The exhibition was held at Leeds City College, Joseph
Priestley Campus, Morley, Leeds, and was displayed for 1 week in November 2011.
The exhibition was well received and publicised within
the college. I was invited to show more work in future if I wanted to. That
part of the wall is normally left blank and staff and students had found it
nice to have something different to look at. I displayed it very literally in
the shape of a sun and it’s rays. I didn’t put any accompanying information up
with it, just the title and the exhibitors. It was read well by some of the
staff, the students found it more difficult to understand.
James Kowacz Cosmic Fireworks
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Clare Parfree
Curating this exhibition was challenging, considering
it was so small, and the similar dimensions of the pieces. Which piece brought
out something interesting in another? How did the light work? How close should
they be? In a line, or a group? Along the hall way? In the living room? In the
kitchen? I settled on the kitchen - near the cake - and the work grouped fairly
closely on one wall; this worked well. It was informal, people could sit, eat,
chat, drink, and look at and discuss the work. Conversation was relaxed and
people felt free to ask questions. The work had an appreciative, although
small, audience. People came and went over a few hours. All commented on the
range of the work; all loved the idea of this small exhibition traveling to
each of us, being hosted in different locations.
Clare Parfree Solar Eclipse: Laika
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Eleanor MacFarlane
I collected several other postcards with views of the
sun, a couple new, some from the family, and others vintage – the earliest is
from 1910. I wanted to link these with the MA work using a visual theme, and
show all within the context of sun postcards. When the packet arrived, my
original plan of showing everything in a plain black frame didn’t look
effective, and so I chose a large painted board – an abstract painting I had
done some years ago. I matched the cards visually to the colours beneath. I wanted
to create an artwork rather than a display, to create visual relationships
between all the pieces, so that they could be read in different ways, and to
give some sense of time and how collections become historical. The board was
mounted on a large easel and shown at theViewergallery one day launch, in the
Original Gallery, London, October 2011. About a hundred people saw it. The best
reaction was an older lady, who drew up a chair and spent a full half hour in
front of it, totally engrossed and fascinated.
Eleanor MacFarlane Dark Sun
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Contributing
artists:
Alexa Cox Sunbird
Jo Franklin Untitled
Jonathan Holden Untitled
Caroline Jackson Sun
James Kowacz Cosmic Fireworks
Eleanor MacFarlane Dark Sun
Clare Parfree Solar Eclipse: Laika
Molly Williams Sunset
Amelia Wilson Adoni
Absolute Magnitude comprised ten pieces and has the
potential for multiple responses. With different formatting and organisation, such
travelling exhibitions, inventive displays in gallery, domestic or work
settings, allows art to be created without regard to distance, much like the
online learning experience.
Eleanor
MacFarlane 2012
theViewergallery at The Original Gallery
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