conTEXT issue 2

Everything is Lost (2019) Will Bertram and Lee Enever

Will Bertram & Lee Enever codesigned Everything is Lost (2019) for the front cover of conTEXT issue 2. Their design is inspired by the collaborative virtual painting created at the launch of conTEXT in 2018. Everything is Lost explores the potential of working in virtual reality and the design combines found imagery alongside isolated virtual elements and photography from the launch event. Everything is Lost playfully combines modern and traditional techniques (virtual reality painting and collage) to represent the future trajectory of art alongside its dependence on art history.

Identity Sculpture (2018) Ming Green

Ming Green discusses explores identity in her latest sculpture

How is Brexit influencing contemporary fashion?

Ronja Thielmann examines Ana Carolinas graduate collection 'Escape' 2017 in her latest article

Museum Fatigue (2018) Naomi Meredith, Ricardo Pireira, Sarah Jose

‘Museum Fatigue’, a study by Benjamin Ives Gillman, written in 1916, describes and illustrates how visitors go through physical processes when viewing exhibits. Gilman writes; “The pictures obtained indicate that an inordinate amount of physical effort is demanded of the ideal visitor by the present methods in which we offer most objects to his inspection” (Gillman, 1916, pp:62). We agree that this study is still relevant today. In response, we have drawn images that accurately represent states of contemporary ‘museum fatigue’. We each created an illustration, leaving us with four drawings that we manipulated to make our own montage Museum Fatigue: 1916 - 2018.

Staff and Students from Bristol School of Art - Museum Fatigue