How Cheap Started So what is Cheap? Cheap started as a zine ran by myself and my partner Nikki Marie Jackson. We’d seen a video at the Cornerhouse about Miranda July’s Joanie 4 Jackie. She was bored of being the […]
FIX09 artist: Hideous Beasttitle: ODD JOBS – A Distracting Experimentdate: 29.09.09duration: 1 Hour AbstractI booked Hideous Beast for one hour at 3pm on Tuesday, 29th September 2009 to give them a task as part of their ODD JOBS project at […]
FIX09 artist: Hideous Beasttitle: ODD JOBS – A Distracting Experimentdate: 29.09.09duration: 1 Hour Results 1. What is the nature of the relationship between the work they do under the label of ODD JOBS and art? Does the job they do […]
The Artists and Contributors When we started out we just showed people we knew because we knew them which was no bad thing, but we just didn’t know anybody else. Once it became free to submit this is when I […]
Planning Learning Contracts…. This is just a follow on from the last post about further methods to develop my visual language… My tutor liked the idea of using the laser cutter as it allows technology to become incorporated. He also […]
Oh, and I will add some photos of my work eventually!
I still feel as if I’m in a bit of a late September slump, but I’ve been getting on with it. I decided it was time for a big studio clear up, as you can see from the pictures, it […]
I got back to some painting. Just grey surfaces. Ultramarine blue and Burnt Siena make almost a black that becomes a beautifully soft grey with a little white. The grey can be nuanced with tints of other colours. The experience […]
Integrating into the public conscious In a similar way to that of the artists we publish we want our work to take many different guises and combine and involve many different areas of popular culture and entertainment so they can […]
‘Spinning plates is a skill in itself, but if you find you are constantly doing this then you need to take a step back from your practice’…………. this months a-n quote homes in on me like an exocet missile. Guilty. […]
On 16 September 2009, David Cotterrell was invited to speak at the VAGA symposium Making the Case held at Tate Modern to an audience comprised of gallery and museum directors, commissioners, consultants and local government representatives.
The recent AIR survey that revealed that levels of self-employment were higher amongst artists than the creative industries as a whole also highlighted the high level of qualifications artists hold.
The title says it all, really.
An introduction to Cheap and Cheap news and developements. Posts 1, 2 and 3 introduction.
