#meredith strong

It’s here the week of the exhibition easter is over and we now have two days to prepare absolutely everything for the exhibition. including the group and individual presentations.

On the morning of installation we all met and decided exactly where we were going to exhibit our work for some of us this was the first time we had seen other people’s work in the flesh and I think that it was a moment that really showed us what the atmosphere and direction of the exhibition was headed. We decided that Ryan’s and my pieces worked really well together as they were both back and white and both focussed on slavery and the [power of nations, money and branding. Ryan’s work involved him using black thread to to sew portraits of slaves making Nike products, due to the similarities in media we chose to also include Molly’s work in this part of the exhibition as she had also used thread to sew a woman in a veil and showed the treatment of women in the middle east. As we moved further down the corridor we wanted to continue using the theme of female injustice and therefore it was logical to use Megan’s work which focussed on women’s role in politics and religion. Due to her work being the only sculpture in the exhibition we also felt it fitting that it would be in the middle, nestled between the 2D works. Then finally str the end of the corridor we had Marlene and Meredith’s works both painters and both looked at politics one UK politics and one looked at Idi Amin and his brutality in Uganda in the 1900′s. Meredith’s work although primarily 2D was actually 3D after installation this marked a clear end of the exhibition before the lockers at the far end of the corridor. I think the way in which we all worked together and all had  the same clear concise vision as to what our exhibition was supposed to be and represent. Power, what is it, how do people have it, and how is it distributed.