Roman Baths and Victoria Gallery feat. Sophie ryder’s work
We started off the day by getting out of our hostel and walking down to the Roman Baths. This is a museum that features baths that actually came from rome, as well as many artifacts, sculpture and statues from their actual home in Rome, Italy. This created quite the heated discussion afterwards about the appropriation of such material within a UK city and just what it’s doing for both the British and Roman backgrounds. but before such talk, the baths featured many different displays, both indoors and outdoors, that look something like this:
After that, we checked out the Victoria Gallery in Bath, the City’s only free museum and gallery. It featured, besides a permanent collection, work by Sophie Ryder. Ryder does most work in sculpture and print, making images of rabbit-headed people, often in association with other beings or objects. Her work got really expansive
(try Giant rabbit woman in fetal position in the middle of the gallery) and would get uit invasive, but there was an innocence and vulnerability that came with the pieces. i guess it was both the materials she would use and the positions the creatures would be in that gave it this feeling.
also, check out the portrait that looks just like Jenn Brown of Grenfell. Awesome, huh?
After Sophie Ryder, we were free for the day. We had alot to do the next day, so many of us just hunkered down for some much needed sleep. The bath youth hostel was okay (though having a snoring roommate and sore throat made for a rough stay).
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