Giles Duley, Becoming the story
After spending most of the day looking round galleries it came time to try and decide what we wanted to say and do for our own gallery. Me and my group ended up in Brick lane, which in fact was a great place to look at loads of street art, we noticed a lot of art being done right before our very eyes, being put up on the walls around us.
After walking around the streets of Brick Lane we started to brainstorm about what we had noticed and ideas to fit the sponge day brief. One thing we all kept coming back to, was that most of the artwork he wasn’t in a gallery but outside, and that we felt that this was more exciting and caught a lot of peoples attention as they went by. People would stop to have a look or get out cameras to take pictures. This then got us thinking, if art isn’t in a gallery can we still call it art? As most people feel anything on the walls outside is more graffiti then art but is this really true.
My group and I decided to start making a sign out of any materials we could find around us, using cardboard with Gallery written on it in masking tape. Straight away we noticed whist making the sign that people were interested in what we were doing already, stopping and taking photos or just turning to look as we walked past. We then chose to start documenting what was happening, having some of our group taking pictures of the people taking pictures of us doing the signs.
We wanted to make people look at the art that was on the walls around us, rather then just carrying on walking past them. Our group then split into 2 smaller groups to walk around different areas of Brick Lane to try and gather as much information as we could.
Towards the end of the day we were asked by a lady to have a polaroid taken of a few of us holding the gallery sign that would be put up in the opening of a new shop.
What we wanted to try and show was that Brick Lane was gallery within itself, the art work everywhere, the culture, the food, the iconic places you associated with Brick Lane. This was our gallery, we wanted to make people aware of everything around them, and appreciate what was around them where on most days they wouldn’t take to much notice of.
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