Art Gallery

I went to go have another look at the Quay Brother's film and installation at the Leeds City Art Gallery before it gets taken down. It's a piece based upon the myth of Opheus and Eurydice, there was an installation 'optical box' where you can peer in through the 'telescope' windows and see the world within, the effect of the light seemed to create the effect of the light hitting water and us beneath it, a kind of animation through light! I want to kind of think of that when i make other films, the idea of animating around the objects to give the effect of other movements.
The film shown was a ballet around the subject, it was dark and tragic, full of nice effects like the thick 'fog', i liked the blackness of it all, but how it retained it's tones, i also thought the music was fitting, a little 'antony and the johnsons' esq.
They're also showing the contenders for the Northern Art Prize at the moment. I have to say for me there is only one person who could win, Dan Holdsworth.http://uk.wrs.yahoo.com/_ylt=AhxlIsBYEhgh4925u9YOonFWBQx./SIG=125lee3d2/**http%3A//www.nmm.ac.uk/upload/img_400/
His pictures surrounded the room, and the other artists more questionable satsuma structures were within. Anyway, unbelievably most of his images were photographs, but he acheived the best effects and colours though using extensively long exposures, i especially like the patterns of the stars, i have seen that before and had a go in summer when all the shooting stars were falling, but these were just lovely. It was hard to believe they weren't paintings!