Context of Large-Scale Collaboration Piece

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When I and Sophie began our largescale collaboration piece, we didn’t think much about the context of it until recently as it is nearly finished. The place context appears to be the most relevant to how the work is presented. It’s currently only been in our studio and while it was unfinished it hung on a wall near the café in the Priestman Building. While here, a few passing comments with positive feedback were made, therefore we decided to see what reactions it would get in different place contexts. Once completed, we plan to put the work in the Shaun Project Space for a White Cube gallery context, the Priestman Gallery, somewhere which isn’t the Arts Department, National Glass Centre, Library, toilets, café, and perhaps even outside to name a few. With having a wide variety of images, this piece could also have a post-modernism context. By taking what were originally tattoo designs/illustrations and abstracting them through the colours used, it gives the images a new graphic feel to them. The myths where the creatures I paint originate, are based from Pagan Religions, mainly Norse and Greek, so a religious context could be relevant to my work. Myths are told as stories, used to distract those from the everyday, mundane life, giving my work a fantasy/escapism context which I will need to explore also.