Today I have gone in and put up all my degree show up and ready in preparation for assessment next week. I look so good to finally get my idea made into reality; it was amazing to see it all […]
PAYING ARTISTS Imagine turning up to work, putting in the hours, doing such a good job that you are roundly admired, patted on the back, congratulated for your work. Imagine the people talking about you, how good you are in […]
Literal and Metaphorical use of Colour and Space About a month ago, or possibly longer, I went to a talk where two students from The Royal College of Art came in and spoke about their work. The thing that struck […]
Mr Vovk painting All the artist I looked at in my dissertation – Cecily Brown, Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville use various appropriation of imagery. Because of this knowledge I have has one eye open (in newspapers in particular) for […]
Here is an up to date image of Mr Vovk. There are areas of the paint which really excite me but there are still areas I feel could be worked into more. I added Liquin to my paint as I […]
Hot Flesh – Meaty rich colour. Along side paint ‘Mr Vovk’ I have began to add colour to my large canvas. At the same time I have been researching the work of Hyman Bloom – He painted autopsies – flesh […]
Sporting League: Game 19 Results. Athletico held onto the top spot by the skin of their teeth after a nervy win over yo-yo club Yop Lane. Sporting radio pundit X: ‘The thing is, you never know what you’re gonna get […]
Art-Athina was a brilliant experience. Also exhausting. We hit the ground running as our plane was late. After dumping our baggage at the hotel, we made our way to the stadium to start installing the work at 6.30pm. There were […]
More work has gone up around mine and its great to see how it all communicaties together. I think I’m sorted apart from too many cables hanging around under the table coming from a DVD player, speakers and projector. I […]
As the degree show is rapidly approaching I have been faced with the task of deciding how to display the vast amount of images I have been creating over the months. I had been looking at printing the 30+ images […]
A gathering of works toward the degree assessment consdering paintings and elements cxollceted from the shoreline Plinths now ready to be painted explored arranging them in my space to see the possibilitys of how to curate them
Three years of my degree are officially over and the work is up and ready for exhibition. The official opening and Private View was Friday night and I received Student Of The Year for the Sculpture Department which I was […]
The Third Space I believe if there’s any kind of God it wouldn’t be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must […]
Pulling everything together So with my three final pieces in sight (two of which are not shown on my blog), today is the day where the frames are going to be made and attached ready for final touches to be […]
I’ve finished my big self-portrait and also the black and white painting of my friend Leyla. Here’s some zoomed in sections of each painting, not showing to much don’t won’t give anything away. Just need to finish my last painting […]
Pointesian Networks. This year’s extended edition of Pointesian networks considers the relationship between aesthetics and emergency politics, manifested as experimental narratives. Encountering both domestic and institutional arrangements, cultural conditioning, and national political milieux, the ethics of artistic agency and representation […]
‘Some things are clearly too precious to let go of.’ I’ve been so immersed in sorting things recently that it’s come as a pleasant and welcome surprise to find a new body of work spontaneously developing. Nana’s Colours (current working […]
continued from #49 But it hasn’t just been about mementoes from my late Nana – it’s also about the things that I’ve held onto from my own past. Sorting through this vast lifelong collection has involved having to think about […]
So, what’s next? The past few weeks have been stressful and hectic, however I’ve had some bad and good news. As they say you shouldn’t put all your eggs into one basket, and I’ve certainly learnt this recently. I found […]
Big canvas in progress I always wanted to paint the figure for this project but was unintentionally lead towards the planes of the face. Through experimenting on a small canvas I knew to get the freedom and expression of marks […]
In my last post I mentioned that my original intention was to work from melded digital imagery. This was to try and muster the sensation of feeling trapped, contained, and wanting to externalise how I felt. The tension in yourself […]
Both: written text and art work If the nature of the gaze has multiple, shifting possibilities, what perspectives are possible and how might it feel to encounter each? Can a text successfully invoke some element of the very emotions it […]
i see a lot of images on Facebook. there seems to be trends and circularity within what i see. some inspire, some annoy, some amuse. some i remember. there’s one image that proclaims that one should be warry of artists […]
The identity of a space is revealed through photographs and video works. A domestic passageway, a public underground staircase, an empty market hall. All transient, and all suspended in time. What isn’t communicated is their significance. Why are we presented […]