A request, possibly a meme
Jun. 27th, 2008 09:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_elyanWhile we have this moment, say something cinematic
Our local art space, the Babylon Gallery, is closing on Monday, due to lack of funding (*). I've been to some good shows there, and avoided plenty that have failed to grab me. Even when its work has not been contemporary, it's certainly avoided being comfortable - the most well-known thing I saw there was a travelling exhibition of Goya drawings.
I was passing tonight, not knowing of the gallery's impending fate, and heard voices coming from within - I looked, and found it fuller than I had ever seen it, with the Ely Artistic Set. There was also a last exhibition on, as well as gear for live music. I wandered around, not speaking to anyone, because there wasn't anyone I knew, and I was too tired to network with Serious People.
Anyway, the exhibition was largely composed of large versions of sew-on badges (like Scout badges, for instance), with simple scenes in the centre, and phrases round the outside. The one that really struck me was a picture of a deckchair, and the phrase above printed round it.
(*) I trust that, after the funding is re-apportioned, our Art Space will be remembered by a smakll plaque denoting the Babylon Gallery Memorial Ladies Lavatories at the Reservists Olympic Hamlet, somewhere outside Dagenham
Our local art space, the Babylon Gallery, is closing on Monday, due to lack of funding (*). I've been to some good shows there, and avoided plenty that have failed to grab me. Even when its work has not been contemporary, it's certainly avoided being comfortable - the most well-known thing I saw there was a travelling exhibition of Goya drawings.
I was passing tonight, not knowing of the gallery's impending fate, and heard voices coming from within - I looked, and found it fuller than I had ever seen it, with the Ely Artistic Set. There was also a last exhibition on, as well as gear for live music. I wandered around, not speaking to anyone, because there wasn't anyone I knew, and I was too tired to network with Serious People.
Anyway, the exhibition was largely composed of large versions of sew-on badges (like Scout badges, for instance), with simple scenes in the centre, and phrases round the outside. The one that really struck me was a picture of a deckchair, and the phrase above printed round it.
(*) I trust that, after the funding is re-apportioned, our Art Space will be remembered by a smakll plaque denoting the Babylon Gallery Memorial Ladies Lavatories at the Reservists Olympic Hamlet, somewhere outside Dagenham
