Yarn Bombing comes to Leamington Spa...

This is our version of yarn bombing our school grounds! Some year 9 girls worked extremely hard and created some wonderful knitted graffiti which has caused a lot of attention!! Well done girls!!!

Hague Yang Exhibition At Modern Art Oxford

Visited the Hague Yang exhibition in Oxford last week and loved it! Although it did not have the same emotional connections as the Walsall exhibition, it did open my eyes up to new concepts and themes.
Yang has investigated how to change domestic appliances by creating sculptures of domestic appliances covered in kitted "cosies" and researches how this changes their use. For example Hague Yang has looked at drying racks for clothes, and food cans and knitted what she calls "cosies" for them which change how they can be used.

Within the exhibition there is also a new piece which has been created for the gallery made from vanitian blinds of assorted colours, mainly pastel, ice cream shades of pink, blue and green. These have been displayed by hanging from the celing making you as a viewer look up. The piece plays with light and with movement and is a piece which can be altered by the viewer by changing the aspect of the blinds.

This is a wonderful exhibition to visit by an artist who is mainly contained to Berlin and Seoul.

http://www.modernartoxford.org.uk/whats-on/haegue-yang/about/

The work of Hague Yang, I feel can also be related to the work of many American based artists who have formed the "yarn bombing" movement.

Wallsall gallery

http://www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk/whats-on/exhibition/the-life-of-the-mind-lovesorrow-and-obsession
Went to visit The new Gallery in Wallsall on Sunday to see the exhibition curated by Bob and Roberta Smith- The life of the mind, love, sorrow and obsession. It had works there by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas, Liz Arnold, Bobby Baker, Anne Bean, Efi Ben-David,  Sean Burn, Hannah Camille, Helen Chadwick, Vlasta Delimar,  Tracey Emin, Sir Jacob Epstein, Theodore Garman, Geoffrey Ireland, Daniel Johnston, Poshya Kakl, Jeff Keen, Yayoi Kusama,  Annette Messager, Lucia Nogueira, Sinead O'Donnell, Chris Ofili, Janette Parris, Bob and Roberta Smith, Emma Talbot, Jennet Thomas, Vincent van Gogh and Jessica Voorsanger.

There was a mixture of some absolutely beautiful pieces, pieces I have always wanted to view (louise Bourgeois, Sarah Lucas) and some pieces such as the collection of letters, paintings, sculptures and artifacts belonging to Sir Jacob Epstein and his children which made me quite emotional.

Well worth the visit!