So we left college early in the morning and
set off for long drive right up to Derry. We arrived around 11am and then
walked on over to the Christmas Markets that were taking place in front of
Guildhall. Inside the guildhall you can learn about the history of the city and
all different aspects of the life of the city through the years.
Around the city itself it always did feel
like a very plain and old city with history to me. I didn’t get to see it in
its best light as on the day it was raining and just a generally dull winters
day. But it didn’t dampen the spirits as we looked around. We then walked
across the peace bridge that had been built not so long ago, and it was really
nice to see it up close and be on it as I heard so much about it.
At the other side we then made our way on
over to the spot in which the exhibiton was taking place, which was called
Ebrington Square Barracks. Within the gallery we could not take photographs of
the nominated artists work but for the most part it was enjoyable and over all
my favourite artist from them all had to be Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. Her big life
sized paintings of mostly black people, are all painted and constructed from memories
and scrapbook gatherings which all come together to make her painted pieces. The
other nominated artists asides from her were Laure Prouvost, Tino Sehgal and
David Shrigley.
Over all, seeing this exhibition in our own
country was really great and I was privelged to go and say I had been there
while it was taking place.
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