3. Cognition - Exhibition

At the beginning of September 2013 one of our class mates, Sophie, who has volunteered herself at several galleries, heard about the 'Made in Roath' art festival which was on all over Cardiff, and would allow us to have some exhibition space for a short period of time. Sophie found this beautiful church on the corner of Westville Road and Blenheim Road, in Roath.

Church of St. Edward, King and Confessor

Obviously there wasn't anyway we could display our work in the actual church itself, but it had a lovely spacious room at the back of the building. It's mostly used for Sunday School and some coffee mornings, but other than that, the room was fairly unused. 

         We met up with the pastors wife several times, just to have a look at the room and also to take some measurements and have an idea of where our work could go in the spacious, all be it, off-cream coloured room.

Here is a photograph of the room with our work displayed! Obviously the space was not perfect, but the whole point of the Made in Roath was to make the most of the most unlikely places, and turn it into an exhibition space. We were quite limited on space and couldn't get any display boards, so we created some out of foam boards, we even covered a fold up table with white paper to make it more suitable to display work. We stood this table flat, and upright against the window (see above).

Here are the images I chose to display in the exhibition. 

I decided to use the images I had created for my project 'A Line In The City', which we did as part of our Photographic Fictions Project last year.

These were some of my favourite images which I had produced last year. I had decided to reprint them for the exhibition, as I wasn't completely happy with the originals, plus they had been damaged over time. I had also attempted to add text to the originals, but this proved to be unsuccessful and seemed unnecessary and slightly out of place.  

Why Cognition?

The meaning of the word 'Cognition' is : "... the metal process of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning and judgement."

There wasn't  a set theme in this exhibition, which turned out to be its biggest problem, but at the same time we all needed the EXPERIENCE & PRACTICE, which is why we needed a name that would be quite general but relevant to everyone's work. 

As a group of ten students, we all made the effort to discuss ideas for the posters and hand outs, we discussed the name and several people ran about collecting things such as food and drink for the open evening, which took place at the venue on October the 17th. It all went rather well, we all took shifts to watch the venue while it was open, plus it turned into a great way to bond with our fellow students, and we had fun. 

THINGS I GOT FROM THE EXHIBITION:

- Learnt how to foam mount work

- How to correctly measure and display work successfully and evenly in an exhibition space.

- Experienced having work exhibited and viewed by others, even had some good feedback. 

Good Practice for Final Major Project.