Dana Munro

During a Wednesday morning lecture, we were visited by British born artist Dana Munro who is currently residing in Brussels. She gave an in-depth presentation on her most successful and meaningful pieces of artwork she had produced this proved to be extremely interesting as her art works were all very diverse within their meanings and background of the pieces. She mainly produces her forms of art as Photography and Film using superimpositions to create an extraordinary effect to her work along with editing transitions. It was stated that she collects a large majority of her inspiration for her work from a sci fi film with Harrison Ford staring in it.
Munro often got her inspiration from other artists, her first major exhibitions around Brussels and Paris blossomed from her taking inspiration from John Knight, a conceptual artist whose intent is to interrogate underlying economic systems. This exhibition was based around her piece of work called "You wish your wife was as dirty as this", this came from the piece of work John Knight created spanning off of the basketball team Portikus, his art instalment was named "Portikus is the name, basketball is the game". The art piece "You wish your wife was as dirty as this" became extremely popular within the artistic community and Dana became well known amongst the public and those interested in art.

The actual presenting techniques that were delivered to us during her presentation were slightly confusing, she often swayed away from the subject of the artwork she was discussing and never came back to it, this made it difficult to capture the correct notes needed to be able to describe her presentation. I feel this was no fault of her own as she seemed slightly nervous and keen to cover the entirety of her chosen art to discuss. She often discussed her own inspirations, almost dwelling on what had brought her ideas for her art, her reasoning was also a large part of her presentation as it seemed she thought she had to have a reason for every piece of work she had produced. Often within art there can be no reason for the art, many viewers often do not know the hidden meaning behind the work but still appreciate it for its form.