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This year's progress
By: Christina Bryant
This is a record of my progress in 2008. I am looking forward to some exciting and challenging exhibitions and wanted to log the growth of my work and ideas throughout them. With lots to learn and many challenges ahead, I hope this will be an interesting record of events and emotions that will show my progression as an artist with an engaging and interesting body of work! So here we go...
Christina Bryant
I am based in Hertfordshire as a Fellow at the Digswell Arts Trust in Welwyn where I have been for nearly 3 years. I joined after graduating from the University of Hertfordshire with a degree in Fine Art. My work is mainly described as installation and drawing but I use whatever I can and feel relevant. I am interested in ideas about human experience of spaces. I explore the emotional connections to physical reality, whatever that really is. My ideas are in constant motion and the work, to me builds up one question after another, I'm not sure where it will go next.
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Christina Bryant, 'Bedroom', Wire Installation, Sept 2005. Photo: Christina Bryant. 3d Wire Installation drawing of a bedroom scene. Close up view of part of the T.V and desk. Stroudhouse Gallery 'Furniture of Sorts' Exhibition.
# 1 [22 January 2008]
I have started this year looking towards my main focus, that of pushing my work as much as I can and becoming as seen by as wider a variety of people as I can, to gain a diversity of responses that is challenging to my making and the ideas behind it.
First Exhibition of the Year: ‘Electric Blue’ Opening 12th March 08 My first focus is a group exhibition that I am part of that is being held in March at the Barge House on the South bank in London. It is being organised by a good friend of mine who studied Fine Art with me at University. Titled ‘Electric Blue’, the show will feature work that is engaging and interacts with our senses in a variety of different ways. The piece that I plan to construct for the exhibition is a 3d/2d drawn installation piece depicting the image of a domestic scene. The challenge is the nature of the space, as it is a 3 storey warehouse building with rough brick walls and bad lighting. I have started constructing the piece in my lovely, white, bright studio space and am thinking about how it will translate into the gritty nature of the Barge House. I am trying to balance between keeping the feel of the piece, and practicality of constructing it, to letting the building become part of the work. I don’t want to mask the building out of the piece but let environment and work interrupt each others existence for the short time of the exhibition. My concern for my own work in this exhibition is that it will be over powered by the space. My work has a fragility about it that I hope doesn’t get lost within the heaviness and robustness of this solid building. I’m really hoping the contrast will be a success.
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