Brief

Tate is a leading global art institution holding the national collection of British art, with galleries in London, Liverpool and St Ives.

Tate Britain in London needed graphical interpretation to present to visitors their display for the 'Changing Lives of Artworks' in the Learning Gallery.

Design

Like us, artwork changes. The Lives of Artwork explores the ways in which artworks live on, both inside and outside of the museum, making visible the people who care for the artworks along the way.

Tate Britain needed a diagram to illustrate the inter-relationships between and artist's work, it's custodians, audiences and how works unfold over time or exist in multiple forms, how these things change in response to different contexts, mapping out physical, social, intellectual and future lives of artworks in the Tate's collection.

Working with the team at the Tate, I created drafts of the diagrams and ways of presenting the information, settling on a variation of a spider diagram that branched out in multiple spots to represent several routes and iterations.

A bold yellow & black colour scheme was used for the graphics and throughout the space. Typography and pictorial icons were created which were then fabricated in custom cut vinyl and applied directly to one of the gallery walls. The exhibit title was typographically represented within [brackets] to encase the four concurrent main areas described in the diagram.

In this space, visitors were invited to sit and read, watch, listen, think and add their thoughts using the cards provided.

Skills

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