Jo McGonigal

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Jo McGonigal 







6th of December


 McGonigal has been exhibiting work from 2008 and currently is an applicant of a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Leeds. Straight off the bat I have to say I was not a fan of Jo Mcgonigals work. I respect her practise and her reasons why but personally I seen it as something quite pointless. Repainting something to look the same is time and work gone unnoticed to me. However there was one piece I quite liked the idea of; "Edge of a Silk Scarf". I was inspired by how it made the audience interact in quite an interesting way. The installation was placed in a corner, not in centre, not sitting perfectly on a plinth but rather in a position where it made the audience push awkwardly against the wall to get the right vantage point. To me this opens up my eyes a lot to how positions of installations and pieces can really effect the power it has over the audience. 

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