
More Than Just a Pretty Face
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Archive
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Back o' the Shop Gallery -
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September 01, 2012 -
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October 27, 2012 -
Location:
Yorkshire
I have become more interested in process again recently and am enjoying this series of drawings in the studio. The drawings are a way of slowing down, they act as a curb on the urge to “do something” and take […]
The Hoarder Next Door The Channel 4 series The Hoarder Next Door (May 2012) documents the struggles of “extreme hoarders” living with their accumulated rubbish and trying to make life changing alterations to their behaviour. Psychotherapist Stelios Kiosses is the […]
It’s kind of funny when you think you have moved on from a body of work, only to find it in the ‘limelight’ a couple of years later. For the 2010 Independents Biennial, I was using plastics and other recycled […]
When Sigur Rós announced they wanted video artists to create a video for tracks from their new album Valtari I began to plan my submission. A few years ago I had the pleasure to go to one of their gigs […]
It is time for a (new) weekly schedule. Yesterday was my first morning at my new school and I realise that this course is going to require a lot of work. It is vital that I keep up with both […]
Week 2 and the tweets keep flying in on ‘ What Keeps You Motivated in the Arts.’ I had not at the time of asking it anticipated such an overwhelming response and hope everyone doesnt mind me compiling- which had […]
Drinking coffee from a jug on the old school benches outside our project Space as Stephanie and I discuss preparations for a presentation by Eliza Gluckman. The talk about Sinopticon, the touring show Eliza has curated focussed on Chinoiserie, will […]
I always seem to stumble when asked ‘what do you do?’ The answer I that is so often on the tip of my tongue is ‘Do you want a list?’ I don’t mean that to sound facetious or unkind but […]
It looks like broccoli, or an ariel view of a rain forest.. but it’s a giant yew hedge..
D A I L Y S T U D I O S H O T S 14/08/12 Sunny in the quad today with Laura Lillie.
D A I L Y S T U D I O S H O T S 15/08/12 Thank goodness for friends in high places.
D A I L Y S T U D I O S H O T S 17/08/12 Facebook status update: When I got home from Shaun James gallery space, I realized I had just completed a piece inspired by a […]
Having navigated both cultural and physical obstacles to integration at this year’s Supernormal Festival, our correspondent explores the gap between good intentions and outcomes.
Hannah Maclure Centre, Dundee
9 June – 27 July 2012
Palais de Tokyo, Paris
20 April – 26 August 2012
Show&Tell has been on summer break….However, yesterday I asked on twitter: What keeps you motivated to work in the arts? Here are the rather,brilliant,insightful tweet answers so far. Tweet yrs @rosalinddavis #artsworth @thebenstreet Obstinance….Fun (honest answer) @thisladypaints the constant urge […]
George Steiner offers an insight into His uncertainties regarding his ‘Art’. ‘It’ pokes away at suspected distinctions between invention and creation. Writing of an occasion when Duchamp challenges Brancusi (in the Aeronautics Salon at the Grand Palais in Paris, 1912) […]
The State of Play is my most recent a-n Artists Talking blog, in case you’re interested. www.a-n.co.uk/p/1927328 Also, please check out my website for new work and up to date info on exhibitions: www.eldidundee.com