The Last Gallery will take the form of a temporary and reusable structure that can be assembled and disassembled by a small team of 5-6 individuals.
The structure is to be built entirely from reclaimed materials, the most striking feature and significant detail is that the roof and walls are to be transparent.
It is important that once inside a person looks out into and is made aware of, (in a self conscious way), the world. Unlike a conventional gallery space where your view is limited to the interior context of the gallery and rooted to a particular location, the last gallery can move and be responsive to a multitude of sites and contexts and does not exclude or diminish the external influence on the artist-space-viewer-wider world relationship, but exists for it.
The Collins English Dictionary & Thesaurus,
second edition 2000 latest reprint 2007
HarperCollins
last1 being, happening, or coming at the end or after all the others: the last horse in the race.
2 being or occurring just before the present; most recent: last Thursday.
3 only remaining: one's last cigarette.
4 most extreme; utmost.
5 least suitable, appropriate, or likely; he was the last person I would have chosen.
6 esp. relating to the end of a person's life or of the world final or ultimate: last rites. adv.
7 after all others; at or in the end; he came last.
8 most recently: he was last seen in the mountains.
9 (sentence modifier) as the last or latest item. n
10 the last.
10a a person or thing that is last.
10b the final moment; end.
11 one's last moments before death.
12 the final appearance, mention, or occurrence: we've seen the last of him.
13 at last. in the the end; finally.
14 at long last. finally, after difficulty, delay or irritation.
Usage Note Since last can mean either after all other or most recent, it is better to avoid using this word where ambiguity might arise as in her last novel. Final or latest should be used in such contexts to avoid ambiguity.last 1 to remain in being (for a length of time); continue: his hatred lasted for several years.
2 to be
sufficient for the needs of (a person) for (a length of time): it will last us until Friday.
3 to remain fresh, uninjured, or unaltered (for a certain time). See also last out.
last 1 the wooden or metal form on which a shoe or boot is fashioned or repaired. vb
2 (tr) to fit (a shoe or boot) on a last. [OE Laeste, from last footprint]
Gallery1 a room or building for exhibiting works of art.
2 a covered passageway open on one side or on
both sides.
3 a balcony running along or around the inside wall of a church, hall, etc.
4 Theater
4a an upper floor that projects from the rear and contains the cheapest seats.
4b the seats there.
4c the audience seated there.
5 a long narrow room, esp. one used for a specific purpose: a shooting gallery.
6 an underground passage, as in a mine, etc.
7 a small ornamental railing, esp. one surrounding the top of a desk, table, etc.
8 any group of spectators, as at a golf match.
9 a glass-fronted sound proof room overlooking a television studio, used for lighting, etc.
10 play to the gallery. to try to gain popular favour, esp. by crude appeals. [C15: from OF, from Med.L, prob. from galilea gallilee, porch or chapel at entrance to medieval church]
