This week I completed the last of the Muybridge workshops, which have formed part of the education programme at Kingston Museum; run in conjunction with the Exhibitions on Muybridge’s work at both the Museum and Tate Britain. To find out more about Muybridge and his home town of Kington Upon Thames please visit the Muybridge in Kingston site.
The workshops have been great and really enjoyable to run to do which is always a bonus! Here are some highlights from the work…
Fun night had at the The Strand Gallery PV, here’s some pics from the night and of my work taken on me phone…
I recently went to ‘Exposed’ at Tate Modern. This well curated exhibition is full of works that explore themes of voyeurism and surveillance. The show gave me the opportunity to see some works that I had been admiring in magazines and publications for a while. Kohei Yoshiyuki’s series ‘The Park’, for example, contains photographs that have been mentioned and printed in numerous publications. To see these photographs up in the Tate was quite a thrill. The photographs are shot on infrared film in a Tokyo park at night. The content of these night photos are intriguing, bewildering, shocking and mesmerising; as you find yourself entering into a bizarre cycle of seedy voyeurism… watching watchers watching. …
Image Copyright Kohei Yoshiyuki
