Response to White Cloth Gallery visit
The White Cloth Gallery opened earlier this year
and exhibits photography and film. The space is used for established artists to
exhibit their work but also to showcase new up and coming artists.
The gallery isn’t very big, just two rooms and also
has a cafe/bar. It has a very relaxed feel to it and welcomes anyone to go and
take a look at the art or to sit in the café area and read the magazines and
books which are available.
The exhibition we looked at was England’s dreaming by Ewen Spencer. It consisted of different images focusing on young people. They were shot in places such as youth clubs and showed the things young people get up to when they are socialising together. Ewan Spencer shoots with flash and the images are all in focus showing everything that is happening very clearly and documentary like. The photographs were quite large and weren’t framed. They reminded me of posters or pictures that young people would take and pin on their wall. The print quality was good but the way they were stuck to the wall was messy. This was intentional to have folds and lines in them. I think this gives a reference to young people casually pinning up photos not in a formal way. I did think that there weren’t a lot of pictures to look at seen as they were taken over 15 years and maybe some of the images showed young people in a bad way. But then again the images weren’t acted out they were a true account of what he saw.
The exhibition we looked at was England’s dreaming by Ewen Spencer. It consisted of different images focusing on young people. They were shot in places such as youth clubs and showed the things young people get up to when they are socialising together. Ewan Spencer shoots with flash and the images are all in focus showing everything that is happening very clearly and documentary like. The photographs were quite large and weren’t framed. They reminded me of posters or pictures that young people would take and pin on their wall. The print quality was good but the way they were stuck to the wall was messy. This was intentional to have folds and lines in them. I think this gives a reference to young people casually pinning up photos not in a formal way. I did think that there weren’t a lot of pictures to look at seen as they were taken over 15 years and maybe some of the images showed young people in a bad way. But then again the images weren’t acted out they were a true account of what he saw.
The exhibition wasn’t my kind of photography just
because I like photographs to be pleasing to look at and that tell a story, and although those images were telling a story of youth I thought it wasn't very nice to look at the photographs.
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