Gallery: Elective Gallery 2 and 3 at Cadman Studio,
Date: 12/02/09
What is it about? The theme’s about objects, no matter how normal, great, mundane or whatever description you want to put to everyone, they’re seem boring to you and me. However, there will be times that these same objects can be something important to a selected group of people. And hence the pun with a sic tag for that pretty visual font display, [in]significance (sic).
What’s Interesting? Omsan’s childhood-innocence-gone-horror Tooty Fairy jar seems to have hit the mark, with its stand and pretty lighting effects, making it delicate, yet sinister-looking. And then there’s Mary Smith’s selection; thanks to the atmospheric lighting design, like the rustic keys hanging on, giving an ‘imprint’ to the crippled paper, which I’m amazed I thought it was just a piece of fabric. And even her photographs, which they were just pictures of dressing pins on foam up close, have been cleverly pinned on the wall with dressing pins, giving it a fragile feminine aura to them.
What’s Not So Interesting? I’m not blaming Jennie Malbon’s works for having some rather ‘interesting’ drawings of scribble nonsense, though one of them looks like a heart, it’s the poorly-lit corridor of Gallery Three I’m complaining, due to the fact, there’s only one laughable working ceiling light. And don’t get me started on Debbie Mills’s works: although her 2D piece works fine on the wall, it’s the 3D pieces that are somehow felt a bit distant and distracted from the other artists’ works that have a good theme flowing along.
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