February 2012
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Planning
I really need to make some decisions about what I want to achieve from my gallery design. In my previous posts I have talked about how I like museums and galleries where you can get lost and there is less of a sense of being directed, this is definitely something I want to achieve. But there are other things to think about, like how can I make spaces for inter-disciplinary works that we have on...
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Museum Visits
On Friday I visited the Dulwich Picture Gallery (designed by Sir John Soane whose museum I visited a couple of weeks ago) and the Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the research I am doing into different gallery spaces. The Dulwich Picture Gallery (below right) is on a far smaller scale than the V&A, so its architecture reflects this. The gallery has a clear main axis with arches...
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The Degree Show
So the Degree show is looming, and finally I have some plans. Last week I put forward my idea to the rest of my year group on my course. I explained how I want to design part of, if not all, the gallery space in which people will show their work. The space itself would therefore be my work and I would not have anything else in the exhibition. I want to do this as a way to explore how space...
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Contrasting Gallery Spaces
This is the third and final of my proposals for the three wishes project. It is also closest to the work that I am planning at the moment. The first two paragraphs come from one of my previous blogs, so sorry to be repeating myself!
The New White Cube gallery in Bermondsey is a commercial space designed specifically to showcase the work that is exhibited there. The Sir John Soane Museum in...
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The Maze Gallery
This is the second of my proposals for the three wishes project:
Newer galleries, such as the Tate Modern, were designed with visitor numbers in mind. The layout of the rooms at the Tate mean that visitors are more likely to move about them in a particular way, and are also less likely to miss a room than in other galleries. Those involved in the designing of the Sainsbury Wing said, “We want...
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The Directionless Gallery
In most galleries and museums that we go to there are maps and arrows to point our way. This makes it easy to predict a person’s path through a gallery space, and indeed when monitored (as seen in the image below of the Sainsbury wing of the National Gallery) the pathways are pretty much as expected, and on the most part are similar. What happens if such directional devices are removed? Rooms...
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Uh-oh, not the time for artist’s block
I’ve done so much research recently; it’s been really interesting and quite fun. But it has meant that I have changed direction with my work. Although here is the problem, I haven’t made any work relating to my research or anything else for a while. I don’t even know what to make. It’s a little worrying considering I’m a matter of months away from my degree, which I’m sure you’ll agree is...
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The White Cube Gallery Bermondsey vs Sir John...
Last week I went to two very contrasting spaces both designed to show artistic works. The New White Cube gallery in Bermondsey is a commercial space designed specifically to showcase the work that is exhibited there. The Sir John Soane Museum in Holburn began life as a private collection within the house of the architect Sir John Soane 1753- 1837. The house has now become a museum and is slowly...
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The Gallery Map
This is something I wrote for a project we have been set at university in preperation for our degree show. The project was to create three proposals based on our current practice but without considering money, time or space constraints. This is the first of my proposals:
Maps show us the way. Maps in galleries show us the directions to a piece of work, a particular room in the gallery or in...
