Creative Transit Exhibition at Cavendish bar!

So as a collective of artists, we finally got an exhibition at the Cavendish bar which turned out to be a great success. The vibe was very relaxed and it was a great chance for people to get together. As usual for an exhibition I wanted to create a new exciting piece of work; so carrying on from the idea of beastly mythological creatures, I decided to use the shapeshifter idea and just use animals to look like humans. I liked the idea of portraiture as it is quite a human thing to do; to get professional photographs done of ourselves or our families. I thought it would be funny to do a spin on this idea and use animals posing for photographs like humans instead. I decided the most realistic way of doing this at first would be to use Photoshop and crop them in that way. I love creating work with amusing effects so I was really pleased with the finishing result. The exhibition went really well and it was so good to see everyone's work on show and see what everyone is capable of.
Below is my first attempt at guessing what kind of animal would work for this project. It didn't work that well for me as the neck was awkward coming out of the body and it didn't look quite right. This was a good first experiment to seeing how it all went together as an image, even though I didn't use it in the final piece.

I decided the best animals to use would be aggressive animals as it was quite fitting linking in from my last project, 'Beastly.' I then ended up using these 3 final images for my exhibition and decided to keep the same title for my exhibition pieces:

Here is the final exhibition outcome:

Micron May

Hello everyone. You are now looking at the new Micron club photographer! The first gig was in May which was a collaboration with Future Everything! So no pressure or anything. I found it a little difficult at first as I've never done night time photography before, so the settings are completely different. Still, I think for my first effort, these pictures aren't too shabby :) This is only a few of the collection I took. I uploaded them myself on their facebook page, and they are even gonna add them to their website!! Wahay!

Kiki Smith

"Born" by Kiki Smith

Through the 'Visual Body' lectures I had, I came across an artist called Kiki Smith, who also works with animal/ humans together. The first image I saw of hers was a deer giving birth to a fully grown human which gives us the impression the deer has had sexual contact with a human. Birth is a natural thing, and the way we view her sculpture is probably the opposite. Her work with animals and humans however does seem quite sexual at first. Beastality, which is wrong anyway, makes it very strange to look at, as it's totally unnatural. However, I do like her work as she combines animals and humans to create new mythologies, which of course is what I've been looking at. This way of looking at it, mainly the deer represents rebirth. Creating something brand new. Let's try something new. Well why the hell not! Let's introduce animal/human hybrids into the world and fuck it up.. ha imagine that...