Specialist reveiw

Tracy Emin My bed

My bed engages the viewer with an embarrassing scene; a cluttered mattress on top of which are stained rumpled sheets, pillows, tights and a towel. Alongside is a collection of items such as vodka bottles, slippers, cigarette packs, a white fluffy toy, worn underwear, condoms and contraceptives. By sharing her personal space and displaying such personal items, for instance the self portrait photographs, enables Emin to establish an intimacy with the viewer and reveals that she is as imperfect as the rest of us.


The piece is a bed of confessions and full of a woman's tortured and raging emotions. It is a memory to her and an insight to every one else involved in her early life. Emin is a confessional 'bad girl' and My bed is an expression of her promiscuous personality. It is a shocking representation of female sexual desire and a new attribute of feminism. Many people viewed Emin's controversial art work as dirt and disgust and left people astonished when Emin was shortlisted for the Turner prize in 1999. It will undoubtedly be hard for any other feminist art to compete.

Using Bridge

After a tutorial on using Bridge, I found that using Bridge to browse photographs can be very useful. The program is a very quick visual organiser. The good thing is that the program does not use up a large amount of RAM . Browsing images is the main purpose of Bridge and users can flick through image images quickly and easily. The good element of the program is that it also allows you to view many adobe file types including, PSD, AI, INDD, ODF and EPS and the program shows a coloured thumbnail preview.

RWA

The Royal West of England Academy is Bristols first art and design museum. The artists programme does not just focus on well known artist names but also new and established artists from Bristol. The Royal West of England Academy is one of only five self supporting Royal Academies of Art in the UK.

The RWA publishes its own magazine quarterly called Art. Most galleries have a gift shop similar to the one at the RWA, the gift shop offers merchandise that mirrors the exhibitions. However the museum also offers the own Art scheme, making it easy and affordable to buy works of art from £100-2000. The cost is spread over ten monthly payments and is interest free. Another area that particularly interested me about the museum was the Mary Feddern Limited edition prints. The prints feature some of the artists favourite motifs,and have been created using a digital process and are reproduced using guaranteed light-fast pigmented inks onto cotton fibre papers. This was of interest because it relates to my specialist pathway graphic design and is an example of how work can be created for the purpose of an art print. 

press release

ABC launch new Type Bike range


Over the last few years ABC have been renowned for producing popular bike accessories which have proved to be such a success, it has developed into type bike co. A new range of work has been released by Matt Hughes designer for ABC (A bunch of creatives). The range is called Type bike and is part of the new brand range that specialises in merchandise for BMX riders. The range has been designed around the fashion of young minded riders. ABC are the first company to create a full line of custom BMX clothing and accessories. Type Bike hit the UK fifty fifty stores today with a limited time only 50% off which had the stores swamped. Among the items in the new range of clothing from Type Bike are a number of printed t-shirts, featuring logo designs, hoodies and zip ups and a full range of Biking accessories. The range has a new look, still remaining relevant to a fast paced British lifestyle with brushed cotton hoodies and a comfortable range of easy to wear coloured tees