Spike Island Visit Write-up 3.2.11

On the visit to Spike Island there were two main exhibitions on show, the first was by Sean Edwards which included photography, film sculpture and drawings was a representation of time spent in a shopping center that was due for demolition, he made studies of his time there which is shown in his work on display.  
Another section of his work 'Tea at my father's House' included a set of 13 photo studies which I found a little more interesting than the other work although neither really impresses me.


There was also another exhibition on show called 'Invocations of Blank Paper' by Martin Creed, Ryan Gander, Vlatka Horat, Gareth Long, Anna Molska and Ignacio Uriarte. The idea of the exhibition was that it "uses the blank page as a metaphor for the processes of creative expression" Again I didn't find this exhibition very good, if anything I was more distracted by the video clip of daffy duck placing in the corner, although the piece of crunched up paper in the stand did make me think a lot it was more of thinking how can you have this as an exhibition piece.


Spike Island itself has some good space for exhibitions, including large rooms for constructing any large pieces, and also has a  lot of studio space that people rent out, although we didn't get to see them exactly I can see that there is some good opportunity for working space in the future if I ever needed it.