By way of a detour to starting my doctorate in Fine Art at the UEL I dropped in to see the Jasper Johns retrospective at the RA. I have admired Johns’s art for many years, and was lucky enough to […]
The space in which I will stage my degree show exhibition was handed over on Thursday, and so I now have a week to setup my degree show. I’ve cleaned the doors and floor, painted the walls and the ceiling […]
Having kicked the wheat cube idea into the long grass, I’ve combined two ideas, simplifying and concentrating the installation in one failed swoop. The (after LeWitt) cube frame was begging for a new purpose, and I needed to project my […]
As part of my degree project I have been investigating the growth of wheat. In an earlier blog (Oct) I wrote about ploughing and farming as a metaphor for the seasons and life, a momento mori inspired by swaying barley […]
This week I’ve been tasked by my tutor to create a pared down, simplify sculpture, whilst still capturing the essence of my work. So I have considered an artist who has made incredible, minimalist works dealing with an enormously complicated […]
Many may consider my degree project to be about death, a memento mori or a vanitas work, however I am not so sure, yet I guess it is whatever the viewer want’s it to be. To me the work, is […]
For the past few weeks I’ve been making a cube, inspired by Sol LeWitt it is an open frame and in it’s simplest form it is minimalist in appearance. Whilst my method of making a cube was not as […]
I’ve been procrastinating for too long, too much cerebral thinking and not enough dumb making (so my tutors are telling me). So I have a concept an feeling which I want to evoke. In short it’s the idea that one can be […]
This week I’ve been working on a short film. I took the raw video during the summer whilst capturing footage of crows on a ploughed field. Whilst playing the videos back I discovered that I had captured a crow dropping and […]
Midland Lead has provided me with some materials for my degree show and yesterday my order arrived, two short rolls of sandcast lead. A material that is literally cast in sand, a traditional method used hundreds of years ago to […]
OK, so this is a bit of a last minute offering but I thought I’d throw my pennies worth into the ring. See also a-n’s review of this years Turner Prize. Whilst in London I went to see the curators tour […]
Yesterday I visited London with a fellow part-time student Gill and her husband Bob, we went straight to the pop up exhibition on the Strand called Infinite Mix, curated by the Hayward Gallery in association with The Vinyl Factory. It […]