Day 18: Finally the opening night of our exhibition 'Eleven' !!!

The exhibition is all ready to open, we have our dresses on and we are to present to CAFA students about our work and and how our ideas developed during our time in Beijing.

Before the exhibition we go for a pre-opening vegetable sandwich to celebrate!

All of us present our work to a an audience : Josceline has made a zine entitled 'BEANS' inspired by the crickets that are kept as children's toys/pets in Beijing

one of Josceline's original drawings

Helen in mid flow, talking about he work made from incense

a close up

some work of Helen's creations

and again

Lou Lou discusses her work entitled

the piece is made entirely from cotton buds or Q-tips and

 

Elaine discusses her thoughts around the absolute and balance,Elaine has also worked hard to get the image professionally mounted and hung

The exhibition in full swing

Kirsty and her ever changing painting

Kirsty's painting is in the form of a stop frame animation of her adding and taking away

Here's Keri discussing her new Beijing influenced font and the 6 seals/chops she has had carved with the font saying some very English works like Golly and Blimey!

CAFA students discussing Keri's work

Karyna talking about her hand cut paper cubes with the light shining through the plastic to create visible mist

Karyna's work in placed in two location in the gallery

Meghan had created an instillation of her garment inspired by the hutongs with elements of the hutong in the exhibition

here you can see the photo shoot she styled of her garment back in the hutongs where she had taken her inspiration

Paulina presented her process with a series of images, her garment had taken on many different forms during it's creation and this presentation captured this

Charlotte had created her work on the streets of Beijing in the Hutongs and presented this with a montage of images highlighting the cast plaster works with bright colours

One of Karen's photographs of people with their cherished objects

DOING THE SIGNATURE 11 POSE (the whole group)

Post private view party!!!!!