London exhibitions

So today I initially went to london to see my friends exhibition, because he was trying to raise money to go to florence to do a specialist fine art course. I managed to stumble across a couple of exhibitions on the way to the Tate gallery along the Southbanks. 

One was in the street on the work oxfam are doing in Africa, and how people were being effected by war and violence towards women. Ian Rankin had done the photography for the project, and there were these big prints in the street with some films about the people. 

There was this one lady who's husband had gone out to sell clothes and these guys killed him and took the corps into the woods, they then went after her and her son. But they had heard off a friend what had happened, and fled to her brothers. 

There was another exhibition in the oxo building, for a childhood charity. It was about these toys that children around the world had made for the exhibition I thought it was also pretty cool as a concept and another way of making people think about how people deal with the perception of charity's. 

My friends exhibition itself was really good. During the summer he had done a couple of paintings of me, so it was really good to see that one of the paintings had been published in a book he had made of his works. 

Hopefully next week I will be working on my concepts and ideas for the amnesty international because now I have enough research for the moment to get my ideas down onto paper.