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Riusuke Fukahori

Coming back to the theme of existence Riusuke Fukahori produces shoals of goldfish using painted layers sealed within resin creating a static scene. see the process here.

Scottie Wilson

Scottie Wilson highly ornate and systematic work maybe of help to those of you tacking darwin, the layers within the drawing and within the images themselves give some impression of ages or epochs passing. His images were later used for Royal Worcester pottery. 

Michael Landy

Landy's project Welcome to My World is the documentation of late fathers final years of life. Images range from body parts to objects; for those of you interested in the existential issues raised by the work of Descartes this work may help you deal with this issue what constitutes human life. 

Doig and Katz

Peter Doig and Alex Katz both have worked with the representation of night. For those of you who have chosen the Dickens Night Walks their paintings are a good source of information about colour and how it is altered by artificial and low light levels. 

Luc Tuymans

As a Belgian Tuymans investigated his countries colonial past in Zaire. For those of you working with An Image of Africa, this may help you tackle looking in hindsight at the attitudes of nations and individuals in the past. 

Persephone Books.

Persephone books specialise in the reprinting of forgotten mid century non-fiction and fiction work from mostly women writers. They source period fabrics to become the endpapers, all of their publications covers are flat grey giving the end papers more weight. 

Darwin Originals

Darwin originals was a series of films produced on the anniversary of his birth and the production of On The Origin of Species in connection with Channel 4. More are viewable here. The one about relates to the path Darwin used to walk while thinking. 

Marianne North

Many of you have read and are considering working with the Darwin book from the series. If you are near a visit to the Marianne North Gallery at Kew is well worth it, she was a self taught botanical artist with close links to Darwin. She travelled the world alone recording botanical subject at the end of the 19th century.  

Folio picks.

Some of my favourite folio issues lately, I think that although these covers are embossed they give you a great idea of how a cover can operate differently from the spreads. From the top down they run Geoff Grandfield, the Balbusso twins, A. Richard Allen and Bill Bragg. 

Jan Vercruyyse

Look what I just found on the Xavier Hufkens site here - Shaker Pegs = art.

Sol Lewitt

Sol Lewitt at City Hall Park, curious structures, some appear to nod at function others are more monumental and vaguely architectural, perhaps though suggesting a way of constructing that is more engaging and makes accessing your work, challenging/exciting?

Build bad

Kind of rudimentary, kind of clumsy but not building that is resolved through a monochrome treatment, perhaps this is another consideration when thinking about how to bring together objects that perhaps do not have an obvious visual connection. Courtesy of here thank you.

Michael Johannson

Courtesy of here thank you.

Wexler

Ex architect Alan Wexler designs/builds oddly [un]utilitarian spaces and pieces of furniture - again something that has a resonance or 'feature' to it that could help to identify you [collectively].

Shaker joy

Some more examples of Shaker innovation [again thanks to Zeel] - this may/may not be relevant to the thinking about the show design but could be interesting to have a folding or removable set of furniture/show space that becomes a feature of one of the rooms? Somehting to create a bit of a buzz around your book works perhaps - or the space that you want to show objects?

Direktorenhause Vs Shaker

Hmmm, peg based modular storage facility that could accommodate a true 'pop up' shop, something that could be made on the day and stored in the evening, variously moved from one location to another - imagine that - innovation. Thanks to Zeel.

Simple, elegant book display

Again seen in New York [this time a Boo Hooray gallery], a simple elegant unit produced to display books/flat sequential work. Quite conventional but is definitely fit for purpose.

Asymmetric blob shelf sculpture

Some sculpture seen in New York. There is something to consider here regarding the design of the graduation show - perhaps there is some scope to move away from the overly geometric and regular?, this 'shelving' could be bespoked to accommodate different sized objects and could be a quiet feature in its own right.

Another consideration for the curation of the show should be the grouping [or not] of works by type, for instance a room for 3D, one for mediated or reproduced imagery and one for flat 2D stuff?

Materials

Images from the If you could collaboration between Chrissie MacDonald and Marie O'Connor. Materials and the execution of your ideas should be no barrier - DK have produced books with illustrations that include installation, wool depictions of the alimentary canal as well as pure photography, 3D renderings etc etc. There should be no restriction to how you approach this project.