Postings online: what do bloggers make of Spencer Tunick?

The exhibition is underway, the participants have been in to see if they can spot themselves in Spencer’s photographs, and everyone, it seems, has been talking about this summer’s must-see show.  But don’t just take our word for it. Read and listen to what the blogosphere has been saying about Spencer Tunick at The Lowry.

The blogger Moregeous wrote about her experience of taking part, noting, ‘It was exhilarating, different, surreal, fun, cold, I made two lovely new friends and there can be no better endorsement than that we would all do it again. But somewhere warmer than Salford on a May Bank Holiday weekend preferably.’

The Curated Place blog reckons ‘Tunick has genuinely managed to capture something of the essence that gives Lowry’s work such broad appeal’. The blogger also spoke to one of the participants, Nicky, about her reasons for taking part – listen to her moving audio interview, or follow the link via the Curated Place blog.

Catherine B., meanwhile, said of her experience of posing nude: ‘Surreal is the closest word I can get to describing how it felt to be one in five hundred bodies. I was not posing for the camera, but for the concept behind the installations, 'Everyday People' - that is what we were, just normal people but stripped down. No inhibitions. Magic.’

Creative Tourist, the Manchester art blog, wrote in the run-up to the installation weekend, ‘there is an air of palpable excitement – and a genuine desire to be part of something that the artist himself has dubbed “a naked tale of two cities”’, while the Aesthetica Magazine blog took a different tack, arguing that, ‘humour and humanity abound in these photos, which demonstrate subtle relationships between crowds of people. Tunick took his inspiration from L.S Lowry, famous for his depictions of Salford and Manchester. Lowry’s figures, set in crowds in an industrial landscape, always appear distinctly alone despite their proximity to one another and some of this is captured in Tunick’s contemporary interpretation: the nudity of the figures creates an incredible sense of community and shared experience whilst at the same time subtly forcing distance between participants.’s

Finally, Dave Cunningham (who participated in the Sunday installation), concluded on the What’s On Stage blog that the exhibition ‘is more than just a reminder of a remarkable experience. It will give any observer the motivation to look again at places with which they have been familiar for years.’

Want to find out more? Visit the show now (it’s free and it’s on until 26 September), read our essay by Sarah Kent or watch our exclusive behind the scenes video. And if you know of any other bloggers who’ve written about the exhibition who you think should be listed here, send us a Tweet (with a link) @The_Lowry.