What is the outcome of my first silkscreen layer? I successfully managed to print out my first photoshop layer of Chairman Mao onto an A2 size inkjet Acetate and looks very clear quality with no splodge marks. After that Glen […]
“Whether I make them or not, there are always sounds to be heard and all of them are excellent.” ― John Cage During the 1960’s John Cage held a huge part in organising a thought process and movement in which a […]
Asides from thinking it must have been a joy to stretch those curvaceous cloud canvases there’s a serious ethereal edge to the sponged pigment floating on the surface to Rondinone’s Cloud paintings. Titled after the dates produced the Cloud paintings lift the Mountain sculptures […]
The final installment in the Pelagic trawler trip featuring the boat herself, full of intriguing, interlinking shapes, industrial forms, apertures, reels, pipes and knots, some marked with the traces of the work and the environment.
Here is an image of the collaborative painting produced in Folkestone last week as part of the SALT festival. (see previous blog post). Thanks to Helen Lindon for the photo.
I sometimes wonder if I’m little bit schizophrenic. My moods, reactions can zoom up and down with alarming speed. Over the years I have learnt to take a deep breath and wait before acting too soon and setting life-changing actions […]
Well, I had a go at a bigger watercolour on stretched tracing paper. It is not easy to build up dark areas of pigment, possibly because the bigger paper holds so much water. I decide to let the paper dry […]
On Tuesday, I went to an artists meeting – set up by fellow blogger Josie Jenkins ( https://www.a-n.co.uk/blogs/skygroundbeing/post/52429535 ) It was wet and miserable, it had been a horrible day in work (half term – loads of kids ) and we […]
Third installment of the Pelagic Trawler trip, electronic instruments, radar, sonar, echo sounders, beautiful images, glowing, pixels, moving, recording, depths, distance, times, weights, sounds, voices, transmitting across the night….. in the North Sea, where the darkness is pure, ‘northward enter […]
We’re coming to the end of week 5; already I can identify that my work has taken a new direction. I’ve realized that purely materials is what evokes and challenges me to produce work. My studio space has transformed into […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here (By the way, I know a few people regularly listen rather than read, but would appreciate feedback from anyone new to doing blogs this way – thanks!) I’m not quite so scared now. I’ve […]
Julia Peyton-Jones to leave position at Serpentine Galleries in July 2016, with recruitment for new director already underway.
As this installation was undertaken at night, the video is very dark however I have made a video to document some of the work taken. https://vimeo.com/144124166 This temporary sculpture deals with the theme of mortality and the limited time each […]
The work is beginning to progress and develop with my experiments with the jelly and most recently bread dough. The touch and nature of these materials suggest human flesh, this could be an area to explore further? Scale and space […]
Following on from research over the summer into trancendental phenomenology and intentionality I have begun to piece thoughts together for the research report. Through my research I came across Nietzche talkng of “the art of putting oneself on a stage before […]
A 3rd year fine art students reflective journal
A few samples from the photo journal I made of this Installation.
The progress of my studio practice this last week
Red wool is used to suspend ice from the branches of a tree. the significantly larger ice sculpture is featured at the base of the tree with multiple red strings reaching up and around the tree to reach the single […]
This next experiment continued with freezing water in balloons however, this time a few were mixed with red or blue poster paint. These sample photographs were taken over a period of 24 hours.
