Final Major project week 1 - Day 2

For the second day I took the day to visit several galleries in Central London which had related to the kind of theme I wanted to explore. Firstly I visisted the Serpentine gallery in which I found some very interesting paintings which gave off the image of surpression and being held back. As I did not expect to find these images at the Leon Golub: Bite your tounge exhibition I thought it would be a great oppertunity to see the rest of it and check if there were any more works that had some relation to my project. One thing I found very interesting about this particular exhibition was that the works had a very distorted and eerie feel to them, which at a point had made me consider having a similar outcome later in my development stages. However as my project was more of a motivational thought process than a distortion encouraging one I found that this would only be touched upon slightly in my developments.

Later in the day I visted the Tate Modern in order to see my exhibits in the Poetry and Dreams, and Surrealism and Beyond sections which had many examples of black and white photography, Lithographic prints and acrylic paints which related to the whole idea of dream and distortion. An interesting aspect about the poetry and dreams section was that one work known as ''The Reckless Sleeper'' had inspired me to explore more into the darker side of intability within young people, which will come further on in my research. Unfortunately later in the day I had intended to visit Grayson Perry's work in the national pportrait gallery however had found that the exhibition had been closed therefore making viewing impossible. To overcome this I will be looking online at the works instead of in person and also watching the documentary that was put out by Grayson called ''Who Are You?'', to add to my own understanding of how the self can be percieved.

Overall I found that my gallery visits were successful aprt from the fact that I had failed to visit the Barbican due to my own time constraints. However several peers who were able to visit the Barbican were able to collect some images for me which I will later use in my developments process as they were very interesting as pieces of graphic design and how my outcomes could be layed out.