A big welcome to Second Life exhibition viewers; thank you for visiting! Here are the landscape paintings you’ll have seen at the Xaraz gallery. The AR (augmented reality) is a little frisky in SL and so I have posted them here where there’s no need for an app to view them.

Note 2: Re the text boxes, see https://conboyhillarts.com/2023/12/17/stage3-unit-2-site-audience-context/ earlier in this blog where I talk about the way in which labels for artwork changed from stiff and unhelpful to communications with an audience; “[L]abels – or tombstones as they’re called – for paintings in galleries have a standard format which includes a word count [75 words]. Intuitively that seemed right but I had never seen anything evidential or that might constitute a guide until this week on Sky Arts’ Portrait Artist of the Year. It seems while the word count is critical, the style is up for grabs and a document from the V&A describes the shift from ‘curators talking to curators’ to a much more public-facing and accessible description. Some are poems.” My words. The V&A document has sadly vanished from its end of the link.

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