The Big Egg Hunt 2013 was the UK's biggest egg hunt. It travelled round the UK stopping at 5 of the big cities where 101 eggs were displayed in each destination. This event came to Manchester on Thursday 7th March and left on Wednesday 13th March. At the end of the tour the eggs will be auctioned off to the highest bigger. Each egg was designed and decorated by either an artist or someone famous, so I thought I would see what kind of ideas the designers had come up with.
My photos vary in quality as some were taken on my phone and the better ones were taken on my camera, but it is still clear how each artist has used a different technique to create their individual piece of this project. I found it interesting to see how some artists had added bits on or moulded the egg into the shape they wanted, such as the Dora the Explorer egg ,Sponge bob and Peter rabbit. Another interesting aspect was the way the eggs were finished, as some were shiny and some had more of a matt look about them. I think this was because some artists had painted directly onto the egg, which I could imagine to be quite hard because of its shape and texture, whilst others had printed their designs onto a plastic film and stuck them to the egg, fitting the shape so well that the joins were barely visible, such as the Tin Foil egg.
I thought this project could relate to my Unit x project really well because each artist was given the same starting point; an egg, whilst each group participating in Unit x has been given the same starting point; the number 175. I thought it would be beneficial for me to see how each outcome varied from the next, and I can safely everyone's was completely different. I liked the way that the eggs could all be presented together and look like a set, no matter how far away the design on them was from the original starting point, in fact I think the most successful eggs were the one's that had been changed the most because it was more interesting from a viewer's perspective to see how the alterations had been make, and I think this is important to bear in mind through out Unit x.
