Personal & Professional Practice: OUGD603 - PPP

This year I have been visiting a wide variety of galleries and exhibitions, both for personal and professional purposes. Galleries and exhibitions are a good way to find new research, get inspiration and also explore things that are outside of graphic design. I like to keep my interests varied and let inspiration come from a number of different places.

Jean-Michel Basquiat - Boom For Real Exhibition - Barbican Centre London
The first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Being familiar with Basquiat's work and finding him hugely inspirational, I found the exhibition to be insightful, useful and influential, the work shown was one of the biggest collection of the artists work exhibition.

Inspired to -

Use more colour
Get Back to drawing
Work on all mediums you can

Joseph Beuys - The Tate London - was a German Fluxus, happening, and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist, and pedagogue. His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social sculpture as a gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics. His career was characterized by open public debates on a very wide range of subjects including political, environmental, social and long term cultural trends. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential artists of the second half of the 20th century.

Ferrari

Getting to see the design museum for the first time was an amazing experience. The space used for the Ferrari exhibition was incredible, using huge typographic signs to showcase the design of Ferrari.

Hepworth Wakefield

Keeping up with the different exhibitions at the Hepworth. For visual inspiration, research and general engagement with culture.