Baltic Gallery Visit

Whilst visiting the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art we looked at work from singular artists such as Holly Hendry and Rodney Graham, as well as a collection of artists work to make the ground floor exhibition "Disappearance at Sea - Mare Nostrum"

Holly Hendry - Wrot work because of how she "uses a variety of materials, from Jesmonite and plaster to foam, wood, steel and water-jet cut marble, she creates a geology of oozy forms peppered with comic elements, such as dog chew bones and spinning plaster teeth.She investigates the underneath and backsides of things, using cross-sectional cuts that make insides become edges, revealing their dirty innards. Her sugary colours and cartoon content examine the very human aspects of laughter and death."

Disappearance at Sea - Mare Nostrum

This exhibition looked at the journey undertaken by migrants and refugees to cross the Mediterranean Sea and it looks at. This exhibition ranges from different works that draws attention to the current issues and struggles that migrants and refugees undertake in their journeys to a safer life, from the use of videos, maps, and even visual art. Whilst we were there we got to interact with part of this exhibition through the Virtual Reality headset where you would out on the headset and headphones then as you waled into four different areas you would be shown a different scene, Arrivals, Camp, Lighthouse and Vests. Artists involved with this exhibition were James Bridle, Tomo Brody, Aikaterini Gegisian, ScanLAB Projects, Embassy for the Displaced, Forensic Architecture (Lorenzo Pezzani & Charles Heller), Jackie Karuti, Nikolaj Bendix Skylum Larsen, Hrair Sarkissian , Skart Collective (Djordie Balmazovic, Wolfgang Tillmans, Watch the Med).

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Rodney Graham - That's Not Me

Often a touchstone for other artists, his diverse practice encompasses many roles; painter, photographer, writer, philosopher, actor, psychologist and musician. Through his many guises he creates works brimming with references from art history, films and literature, invariably with a cyclical or roving narrative. With considerable humour, wit and intelligence, Graham continues to ask the question - what does it mean to consider yourself an artist today?

Spanning BALTIC’s two largest galleries, the exhibition will include several installations of film and video and a collection of works inspired by literature and reading, covering more than two decades. Developed in close collaboration with the artist, this exhibition also includes new works and a large selection of his signature immersive light-box photographs, including the group The Four Seasons. These striking, complex images document suspended moments in time, mostly involving a lone Graham in the style of another character assumed or taken from history.