Keeping up Momentum - Peep Show with Hayley Lock

The next ‘Keeping up momentum’ session with OCA tutor Hayley Lock is titled ‘Peep Show’, where you will consider ‘the box’ as a mode of escape as well as confinement.

To set the scene, the Peep show or Raree show can be traced back in time to 15th century Europe, specifically to Leone Battista Alberti, an author, philosopher and cartographer who devised a mechanism to look at perspective views through a small hole in a box.  A raree show, peep show or peep box historically is an exhibition of pictures or objects, viewed through a small aperture or magnifying glass.

There are many references historically to the playful, to the exotic, to the voyeuristic and to the frame over history and in the first session Hayley will present a range of work and contextual considerations that reference all of these elements in equal measure. You will be asked to bring…