ARTISTS TALKING
Visual art exhibitions and events with a platform for critical writing
Other blogs by Sheree Angela Matthews
Feedback
Inappropriate material?
Ideas? Technical issues?
» Feedback to a-n
Project blogs
Tynemouth Residency - The Water Series
By: Sheree Angela Matthews
Influenced by the meditational quality of the natural world and the purity, peace and clarity of insight that this brings.
Sheree Angela Matthews
Note and sketch book for my residency in Tynemouth, a small coastal village in the North East of England.
[enlarge]
Sheree Angela Matthews, 'Wall 003', Photography, 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.
# 14 [6 September 2010]
Login to post a comment »
[enlarge]
Sheree Angela Matthews, 'Wall 002', Photography, 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.
# 13 [6 September 2010]
Login to post a comment »
[enlarge]
Sheree Angela Matthews, 'Wall 001', Photography, 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.
# 12 [6 September 2010]
Login to post a comment »
[enlarge]
Sheree Angela Matthews, 'Lichen', Photography, August 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.
# 11 [29 August 2010]
I think there's a need for some critical discourse to move my art on. At the moment, the people who see my work say all the right things, nod their heads, 'it's nice'. But they are not really engaging with it, or really looking at it.
I know I should be clearer in what I'm trying to do, but maybe I'm looking for guidance from others.
I think I need to talk to someone, really talk to someone who does not know me but gets to know my art.
This residency is more or less coming to an end but it's given me some ideas to develop for calls of exhibtions and commissions.
I'll have to develop them up a bit now because the deadlines are early September. But at least I can say that I'm coming out of this project on a postive. I think.
Login to post a comment »
[enlarge]
Sheree Angela Matthews, 'one, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive ...(3)', ink, August 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.
# 10 [16 August 2010]
Login to post a comment »
[enlarge]
Sheree Angela Matthews, 'one, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive ...(2)', ink, August 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.
# 9 [12 August 2010]
Login to post a comment »
[enlarge]
Sheree Angela Matthews, 'one, two, three, four, five, once I caught a fish alive ...(1)', ink, August 2010. Photo: Sheree Angela Matthews.
# 8 [12 August 2010]
Login to post a comment »
# 7 [11 August 2010]
Login to post a comment »
# 6 [11 August 2010]
Dusk
Login to post a comment »
# 5 [11 August 2010]
Still messing up the way I work. I've been collecting images, quotes, snippets of film inrelation to the sea and just leaving them. I'll be posting them up here hoping that through the process that not only do the ideas keep flowing but that they start to connect.
I find writing artists' statements and proposals difficult but useful. How do you formalise all the ideas and formulations flowing through your head into a linear, straight forward form that others would understand? Luckily, I didn't have to create anything formal for this residency. I've got a blank slate. But in a way all the freedom can be limiting also.
I write things down with arrows connecting all the various strands, complete 'to-do' list here and there. So basically, I'm seeing this as a way of getting those conversations I'm having with myself out of my notebooks and into an arena where they might help me, never mind anyone else at the moment, to have a clearer idea of what I'm doing. And my doing that, I'll be getting my thoughts more organised, and maybe some direction for this residency.
But I'll keep messing things up!
Login to post a comment »