As part of my visual culture studies as a group we visited the Embassy Gallery to take a look at their new exhibition. The embassy is situated in the roxy art house, the same place Hidden Door Festival is held, however i did not realise it was there. The space, from what i saw, was quite small and they had tried to generate a white cube aesthetic to the exhibition, although somehow this did not suit the picturesque quality of the architecture of the old church. The exhibition was not all that interesting a few photos here and there, work generated from readymades and secondary research, the gallery its self was what interested me. The embassy is an 'artist run initiative' founded in 2004 by the likes of Jenny Hogarth and Kim Coleman , a pairing which I had the pleasure of working with during the festival in the Staged exhibition at the City Observatory on Carlton Hill. It is run by a temporary committee of around 2 years per person selected from a base group of members who pay 10 pounds to join. This provides the majority of the source funding as well as some grants from charities, businesses and arts funds. The aim of this kind of gallery is to promote younger/ less reputable artists than their commercial and public sector peers and really took off after galleries such as the Collective and Transmission Gallery in Glasgow proved a success in the 80's often catapulting their members to fame and fortune.
No comments:
Post a Comment