Projection Platforms. It feels like I’ve been making them for the entirety of my practice, but its only now its become apparent that I make projection platforms, these images that for me, help deal with the problem of the eclecticism […]
Lots happening all of a sudden: Bunting Forever is getting big and I’ve been asked to register it as a Line the streets project for London 2012. http://www.dadonline.eu/node/332 Thanks to a professional press release and marketing document the project profile […]
It is Friday afternoon and I am wondering where the week went. It must be is a sign that I’m busy … Two weeks ago I wrote an email stepping down as project coordinator for Sandcastles in Greece. This week […]
I went to listen to artist Matt Stokes speak two Wednesdays ago at the Arnolfini, and came away really inspired! The inspiration has lingered all week and has fueled some new thinking. As a recent graduate, I also found it […]
Out of time and place… We left Heathrow early on the morning of the 29th Feb and arrived in Tokyo on the morning of the 1st – but if it was in the UK it would have been the middle […]
Wild Flowers I bought a few packets of wild flower seeds…..I thought I would plant them in the shape of those rings that someone on a motor bike had made. They had done this on one of the greens which […]
The dissertation is now ‘done and dusted’ and only needs to be bound. The the last element in this module is a presentation on the subject which will be given some time before Easter. Now working on the final show […]
Below is the link to my previous blog which today is joined with the birth of this one. http://www.omar-saif.blogspot.co.uk/
Shibuya and the Special Melon… Ya means valley according to our majestic Japanese CCW contact here Gen. Gen is a bit like the key to Pandora’s box. Not understanding any Japanese characters means that everything is unknowable. Although very pictorial […]
Recent drawings
All the ingredients have arrived and I’ve been nipping in and out of the Real Ale shop helping out with the brewing process. I’ve managed to set the date for The inaugral Transit of Venus Real Ale competition. 3pm Monday […]
I have been busy planning my pilgrimage recently. I have been ordering outdoor clothing and maps from the internet, as well as compiling a list of all the things that I will need. I’m hoping to leave at the end […]
Whoa! I said I’d write here everyday but this week has been a crazy time because I’ve just started a new business with a friend of mine (on Tuesday in fact) so we have been pulling major overtime ever since […]
A couple of weeks have gone by since the assessment. It went quite well and I’ve had some constructive feedback which helps set a direction for the degree show. Technical quality of my work is one aspect to focus on; […]
‘Bid Writing’ course today. Sounds dull & boring but it was the best course I’ve ever been on… and I’ve been on a few. Short, sharp & concise – ended spot on time, ticked all the boxes & a free […]
This is basically my degree show piece, still in the making but you get the jist of how it will look. These panels will have 10cm gaps between each one and will be mounted on the wall, all will eventually […]
It is a guilty few months since I last posted, and life has been busy indeed with.. …moving flat …getting stuck into my new teaching job …getting settled and making the most of my residency at Manchester School of Art […]
My practice concerns the mediation of images and the contextualisation of women, whether via broadcasting, media images and the use of blue/green screen or how women are presented in nature using ‘seductive’ pastoral imagery. My interpretation of this becomes a […]
Gosh, feels strange working with the colours I am using and developing and developing the way in which I am using the layers of image and colour. I just keep mixing and mixing the colour, diluting it to see how […]
Working on towers and blocks with beautiful dead things for the Wimbledon MA Interim show week two ‘Wunderkammer’, PV next week at the Nunnery, London. Thomas Cuckle the curator has been very helpful in his suggestions and recommendations of other […]
experiments again with drawing.. ..connecting colours between the city and rural, a birds eye view of a street in Rome.. ..the mysterious Ibis also in sepia, finding the colours with which to do this..
German biosphere and a solar boat..
In this month I have made my first 10 teapots. I found I had to keep an open mind not to try for a particular shape, I want to have only the weight of 1kg of clay as a point […]
Cranky week to happy week. How did that happen? First of all, there’s a pretty good chance I might get what I wanted all along. Now that usually makes most people happy! Monday morning chats in the cafe at Henwood […]
June will see the last printed a-n Magazine. For me this will be a particularly sad occasion as I set up the original ‘Artists Newsletter’ way back in 1980. It’s also a breath of fresh air – a chance to […]