Last week, myself, Phill and Carl went along to the Pieces of Eight exhibition at PSL, Whitehall Waterfront. Whilst we spend our days attached to our Macs, we are always seeking inspiration (to add to the TK wall of inspiration), so it’s great to get out and enjoy others creativity.
The exhibition presented contemporary work by eight PHD students from Finland, Sweden and the UK in a format of Film, Photography, sculpture, performance, drawing and installation using ‘research-led’ practices.
The artists use research methods to generate ideas and then explore these through traditional and modern techniques over the space of three years and we loved it!
My favourite piece was ‘Field’ by Maija Narhinen.
Here, paper is crumpled, folded, painted and transformed into realistic looking arrangement of rocks, so realistic that we didn’t even realise this until reading the programme.
The appreciation of this piece was really linear and developed over the time. We were there from the initial observations of the arrangement of the installation, to realisation that they weren’t real, then to the closer inspection of the hand painted details on each stone.
This piece really illustrates how different reality can be to the way in which we perceive things.
This is Project Space Leeds’ final exhibition in ground floor gallery at the Whitehall Waterfront, Leeds, before it moves to the old Tetley’s Headquarters
To find out more, visit the website here:
http://www.projectspaceleeds.org.uk/
Some of the pieces
