Exhibition: The Blake prize
2 years, 8 months ago
The Blake prize (Official Site | Wikipedia Entry) opened tonight and I managed to get an invitation as provider of technical assistance to Allan Giddy. After which I was graciously invited to dinner at the Maya Indian restaurant with Allan, his partner, and their little girl.
There were very many old Conservative Christian old ladies there - in fact I was apprehensive of the crowd as I headed up in the elavator with them - though a nice selection of youthful interesting types were milling around once I got in.
I’ve stuck the few shots of interesting works up in a flickr set of their very own. My immediate favourite of those snapped was “The Philosopher’s God” for the humour, although I wasn’t able to spend enough time with the serious works for them to really hit me emotionally. Also, I didn’t have time to work out on which side of emotional resonance versus religious cliche many of them fell.