Grayson Perry at the British Museum

A must see exhibition! The only thing I was ever so slightly disappointed by was the fact that it wasn't Alan Measles himself sitting on his throne. Then again, if I was Grayson Perry I wouldn't want to leave him there either, even if it is in the British Museum.

Alexandra Bircken at the Saatchi Gallery

What I find most interesting about Bircken's work is how wide the variety of materials she uses is. They range from aluminium for the frames, pieces of food, stone slices, acrylic paint and branches. They're visually interesting to look at both from further away because of the shapes that are created but also closer up as you begin to realise exactly what it is that you're looking at.

Gert and Uwe Tobias

Untitled 2007, Coloured woodcut on papers mounted on canvas

I wasn't expecting to like the the pieces by the Tobias twins in the Saatchi Gallery, but I do have to admit that I was pleasantly surprised by their work. I think it's the almost child-like nature of the paintings that I find attractive as well as their graphic boldness and the use of block primary colours. It's not a style I'd consider using myself nor are they pieces I'd want displayed in my home but I do actually like something about them.  

Who Me? by Jennifer Allen - Frieze

I'm not going to pretend that when I first read the article named Who Me? that I understood it in its entirety. I found it particularly hard to read for the first few paragraphs mainly down to, what I would say is, an overuse of jargon and found myself having to re-read them again and again, and again. By the end of the article I had grasped that what the author was trying to say- basically that people are becoming more and more used to taking their own photo in a way that probably isn't conventionally or particularly well thought out, but they  seem to be enjoying doing so. I get a feeling that the writer is trying to say that she isn't a fan of the whole holding the camera/phone in front of myself and taking a photo kind of photography and that she much prefers pieces which have had more thought about composition put into them. Unfortunately though this is something that we are all seeing more and more often. I having read the article several times I am starting to appreciate the piece a little more but I do feel that she could have introduced her point much sooner and put forward a stronger argument rather than using overly complicated field specific lexis. 


http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/who-me/