# 10

woolff gallery, zabludowicz collection, museum of everything

today i visited the woolff gallery who were showcasing the work of the new zealand artist clay sinclair. his work is quite abstract, humerous and colourful and he uses a lot of text to get his ideas across. he started to paint on normal glass but didn't enjoy the quality of it as he felt it looked too heavy, so he began to paint on perspex/plexiglass. one of the problems with this is that he has to paint everything backwards!

10.11.10. the peaceful protest! on this day its estimated that 30,000 students demonstrated on the streets of london against the planned tripling of tuition fees. the march was the biggest education demonstration in more than a decade. coaches from all around the uk joined us from trafalgar square all the way down to westminster abbey. the march was extremely peaceful and friendly when i was there from 11-2 (i left early for an open day at lcc) however after that there have been  unfortunate reports that it escalated into violence as a small minority of protesters (who hid their faces...) smashed their way into the headquarters of the conservative party. they from the roof, then threw fire extinguishers, bottles, and burning banners into the crowd... below are pictures of JUST the art students who took part in the peaceful protest.

a friend suggested we went to the zabludowicz collection near chalk farm. i had never been before and was amazed by how light and spacious the main room was. in that room held, toby ziegler's mixed media installation entitled "alienation of objects". for the other rooms, ziegler had selected works from the zabludowicz collection, which were linked to his practice. these were mainly all video art. my favourite video was by peter fischli and david weiss entitled busi (kitty) which was simply a video of a cat drinking milk!

a little walk down the road led me to the museum of everything. unfortunately we were not allowed to take photos inside (or, as the museum wrote, the penalty was death... so i didnt want to risk it!). i saw exhibition #3 which was curated by the british pop artist sir peter blake, best known for his design of the sleeve for the beatles album sgt. peppers lonely hearts club band. the exhibition had everything from self taught work (art work done by chimps), to found objects and artefacts (punch and judy) dolls, discovered art (circus posters) and even taxidermy from walter potters museu of curiosity, which was re-assembled at this museum for the very first time. this was a fascinating exhibition as you never knew what to expect around the corner. every nook and cranny was covered in something from photographs of midgets to concaved mirrors.