What could be the context of my contextual review?

• The religious context plays a big part in the contextual review. A piece of work that this relates to is Nathan Coley's 'Heaven Is a Place Where Nothing Ever Happens'. In this case, site-specific installation is involved where the artist intends on drawing our attention to a particular place or time. He uses controversial and blunt statements about the supernatural with the aspect of religious architecture, where he tends to state the obvious. By doing this he raises interesting questions and awareness about the nature of the world that we live around or in and the place for religious belief in the world. It seems that in these circumstances you would need to be careful of what message you are sending across through religious statements. To some viewers it can often seem offensive as they may believe strongly against the statement, or the case of confusion, where viewers has no idea of why it has been mentioned.

• Text is the most obvious aspect in any art that has a statement made within writing. When looking at art today, with the world that we live in now, most un-harming statements are taking out of context. It's either the way and how we think towards them or the way they are shown and how the messages look to be sent across to the viewer. Kieth Arnatt's 'Notes From My Wife' is a definite example for this. Even though they were the most poignant jottings and notes that he could find written by his wife, and not statements, he would intentionally take them out of the original context and blow them up, to then make them look surreal.

• The colours can also be used to somehow send a message across, whether it's bold, bland, colourful or just simple. Keith Harings 'Pop Shop' is an example of this. He used bold and bright colours for his images which could refer to being graffiti like. As he covered the shop with these repetitive, bold, black and white drawings, it sets of a sense of a hectic atmosphere as you walk in. This saying, if you do not understand the message, the style of art can give you a sense of feeling even if you do not know what it is yet.