Here is my Folio Assignment - SOUND PROOFING

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Conceptual Written Document

My ideas for my project have never really changed. Only slight differences have been made to make my work more professional, rather than just a collection of ideas that made no sense. I gave myself quite a big challenge and I did difficult. Though through the changes made like making all the photos have the same theme and have sound recordings that correspond with the photographs this helped to clarify my ideas. I believe I have achieved what I hoped to set out to do which was to make you engage more fully with my photographs.

Gallery Presentation

To present my works in a gallery I would like to have my photographs be 42x21cm prints on Pearl paper framed in a raw timber frame with white matting. I would choose to display my photography in a “U” shaped room with soft cream walls and gallery lighting. This way my photos would hopefully stand- out from the walls and the special effects of the “mist” would collect in the room.

To get the sense that you’re in amongst the photos I would like a machine that creates fog at your feet and that the heating in the gallery to be turned down a little and lighting to be a tad dimmed. The images would be numbered so people would know where to begin. I would choose to have the recordings on a speaker rather than people have head phones, I don’t want people to feel removed or isolated from each other. (I would use the expertise and experience of the gallery owner in regards to the playing of the recordings).

I would like the people to be given a post card before they enter that has my name, the name of the exhibition; the artist statement and my contact details. I have chosen to put this exhibition on in Canberra and hopefully it would run for 3-4 weeks. It would be brilliant if it were at the National Art Gallery.

Artist Statement

 The fire trail, a track up the back that I’ve grown up with; I watched the dawn of the new millennium on this track, watched the Canberra fireworks and today it’s just there whenever I want to get away or simply just go for a stroll with a family member. It has its own personality and a community and spirit that draws me, life and others to it. I love this fire trail because I know it will always be there.

some of my photos - more are coming