This week has been very eventfull and I received some fantastic news, I was awarded the ‘Terry Price Memorial’ Commission which is worth a high sum of £30,000. The memorial committee held an event last night in aid of the […]
A one-day conference exploring the work of the seven artists shortlisted for this year’s Artes Mundi prize.
Another 2 half days, and I’m producing more things. Feel as though by making things that I’ve been able to ‘tick’ things off that were buzzing around my head and respond to them a bit mroe rationally. Yesterday morning was […]
Currently Reading: Documents of Contemporary Art: The Archive, ed. Charles Merewether (Whitechapel / The MIT Press, 2006) I’ve been researching artists’ use of the archive and archival practice in relation to rubbish. The Archive, edited by Charles Merewether, is one […]
Ilya Kabakov – The Garbage Man (The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away) (1983–95) In the National Museum of Norway’s permanent installation of Ukraine born Ilya Kabakov’s “The Garbage Man (The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away)”, the viewer is […]
Currently watching: Pacific Standard Time Symposium: Artists & Archives at The Getty Research Institute 12/11/11 http://www.getty.edu/research/exhibitions_events/e… The keynote is from Sven Spieker: New Archival Practice. He quotes Thomas Hirschhorn; “To connect what cannot be connected – that’s what my job […]
I went for a walk round the golf course last night in the dark…it was so dark… but on this occassion my dog (Cosmo) seemed keen to take a left out and along to the underpass under the dual carraidgeway. […]
Tatsuko: A film by Glenn Ibbitson Tatsuko is an extraordinary project, and encompasses all of the prodigious skills and talents that a master of their craft can accomplish. Glenn Ibbitson’s 40-min film is a hauntingly beautiful, dramatically gripping yet enigmatic […]
Week 9: 12th – 18th NovemberThis week I submitted my first ever conference abstract. I was a bit nervous, so I did a bit of googling to find out what was involved, (what did people do before the internet?). For […]
THE STORY BEHIND THE SOAP FACTORY In the last year I’ve been interested in the use of soap in sculpture, not just because of its abilities to being manipulated with great effect, But also because of the symbolism of what […]
THE NON-HUMAN PRESENCE IN THE FACTORY I want the factory to be clear of human intervention. The only thing that runs the factory are the machines, by which I know not of their origin, they are there and I have […]
SKETCHBOOK I wanted to create a metal sketchbook to give it an industrial feel and to place you closer to the figures that are drawn. I want you to smell the metal, feel the coldness, the rough and smooth, the […]
THE MACHINERY INSIDE THE FACTORY I wanted the machinery itself to be of enormous scale to emphasize the lack of power that humans have against them the machines, all drawn off their own power source creating fumes that add to […]
THE HUMAN SUBJECT The narrative of the story of the factory is still unclear to me. I do not know where the subjects were taken from or what happens to them in the end of the factory process, but I […]
THE AMBIENCE IF THE FACTROY The overall feeling I want to create in the factory or my installation is one of discomfort or amazement. I want there to be sounds of pure terror. I want the scene to look like […]
THE MASKING PUMP ENGINE The design of the masking pump engine is quite a simple one. It is a basic camshaft piston with 2 pistons connected to one cam. The Pistons will turn up and down forcing air to go […]
Alongside my work in the second year, I had been sitting for hours and creating drawings that I felt were intuitive and beyond thought. I was going to university in the day and tearing my hair out with a lack […]
As a result of my realisations about my unrealistic expectations of how I create art work, I started the third year exploring making work that went beyond thought. I would start with a line or a dot and keep repeating […]
By creating works that seemed to transcend my thoughts, I began to look at artists like Linn Meyers (who I mentioned earlier in this blog) and an artist called August Ventimiglia, he has created a number of works where the […]
I have also been exploring creating 3d works using repetitive gestures of rolling up/ folding sections of magazines. I was interested in the results of continuous actions and my idea was to take the works as far as I could […]
The progression with this was to explore my continuing use of circles and spirals, it was brought to my attention in a group critique and I began to grow increasingly intrigued in what this could mean. When I explored the […]