Telling the truth takes time | Chris Smith
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Archive
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Venue:
South Square Gallery -
From:
February 03, 2012 -
To:
February 29, 2012 -
Location:
Yorkshire
Various, Newcastle upon Tyne
18 September – 20 November 2011
Theatre of the Absurd I am ready to go- six hours early. Actually I was ready by ten thirty – eight hours early. I am now waiting for Annabel to escape from work so we can head to Colchester. I […]
Again it’s been some time, slightly less than three weeks so that has to be a good thing… I’m reading Conversations on Sculpture edited by Glenn Harper and Twylene Moyer and finding it really useful especially how artists think and […]
I’ve been fairly busy editing video for Firewall today! However it’s still not ready… but a section should be attached to my next post! I’ve been trying to find VHS players so I can transfer the footage I have for […]
My work attempts to bring together ideas of traditional, expressive painting with contemporary processes and reproduction, to create an image that deals with both imitative depiction and abstract, gestural mark making. My paintings often play out as a battle between […]
Hmmmm…… So…… having played with the small cabinet and the clothes and the music and presented it in a space to other artists several thoughts have emerged that I feel I have to address. I want to get some of […]
I wanted to add this scrappily drawn diagram here – it tracks life post YSP and how the exhibition has positively influenced things and directly brought in work. The curator and I really wanted to make something that could be […]
Now that I have nearly finished the grant application for ‘jography’ I realise that it has helped me to feel that it will happen even if I don’t get funding due to the momentum of the planning that is necessary […]
Images of works by Enver Gürsev and Eldi Dundee for Play Nice, Now! by Tian Yi (known to her friends as “Teddy”), a Photojournalist MA student at University of Westminster, can be found here: http://www.dropbox.com/gallery/34720989/1/Eldi%27s… Thanks Teddy, Thanks Enver, Thanks […]
It’s the new term, I’m back from Estonia and London and today I held the first peer critique session. Writing the blog has been great, but actually having a discussion face to face with other artists, talking things out, much […]
Michael Mayhew Response #5 Hello Nicola, Passing some sites that have been directed to me – They maybe of interest http://www.onedayonearth.org/ also http://www.indiegogo.com/11-**11-11 <http://www.indiegogo.com/11-11-11> We might be able to hook into these systems exposing the artists work and the process […]