LCA x LCM
Me and some friends decided to visit an exhibition at The Nation of shopkeepers bar as I knew a 3rd year from our course was displaying her work there was I was intrigued.
The event was combining art from out university with music from LCM, so quite an artsy and edgy event.
Nation of shop keepers has a history and persona of being quite hip and edgy and as a bar which is attempting to appeal to students and young professionals, it does this very well.
This piece of work created by 3rd year student Lizzy Gosney documents 40 years of Hip Hop music history, using the concept of vinyl records to demonstrate each year of it's history.
A nice illustrated piece which had been created and I imagine grabbed many peoples' attention's.
More pieces were found there, some very illustrative and artsy such as this, making use of a variety of print methods such as foil embossing, something which always appeals to me.
Other pieces going down the fine art 'thought provoking route', something which unless done exceptionally well (think Damien hurst, Tracy Emin, Chapman Brothers) doesn't really appeal to me, I consider this type of art as people clutching at straws hoping people can empathise with the piece, attempting to pluck a concept out of mid air.
Other illustrative pieces displayed in a very feminine way.
A stunning piece of brush work art. Something in which I more admire the detail and craftsmanship in adverse to the concept this piece is attempting to portray. If someone can do something better than I can, they instantly have my respect.
In conclusion, the exhibition at The Nation of shop keepers was something which had a nice motive behind it, combining students from two different colleges to drink the bar's drinks and bring in additional custom for the mid week, and of course it is very exciting for undergraduate students to have the option to display their work in an environment like this, so I can't knock it in that sense, but I was rather underwhelmed by the display it's self, I expected a bigger variety of work and hardly anything of which I did see jumped out to me.
The Hip Store
We then decided to go to the Hip Store as I had heard there was another exhibition there, not knowing what they were exhibiting, we trundled on down to Leeds Trinity.
Up on arrival the shop was extremely packed and as I entered I still could not see any form of art work, it just looked like a very busy and 'hip' clothes shop.
Music was playing very loudly and there was a cocktail bar at the front mixing up cocktails for the visitors.
Apparently if you were the first through the door you were to receive a gift bag containing over £60s worth of 'Edwin' clothes.
Anyway this was very uneventful and its turned out that the only thing this store was exhibiting was a new pair of Edwin jeans. Massive anti climax
It was impressive how the store had rounded up such a crowd anyhow and in my opinion, if 1 in 30 students bought a pair of jeans or returned to purchase something then the shop was succeeding.
And at least I got a free cocktail.
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