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My deadline might be here on Monday but I had to paint today and I’ve strarted something I want to continue after the degree show, as a continuation from this project. I was so excited seeing my work up and […]
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Untitled blog post from "University Campus Suffolk"
The Hanging is all done…well nearly… I hung my exhibition today, everything went well except for a few hiccups with a few screws not doing as they were told. And the rain… the rain that came down in Yoxford at […]
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Untitled blog post from "University Campus Suffolk"
The Degree show. Curating… I have framed everything for the show plus most other paintings which, won’t be hung, just in case I change my mind when I am in the space. The decision to frame them black was to […]
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Untitled blog post from "University Campus Suffolk"
The Journey Reflecting on this body of work, my paintings became a sort of documentation, which I guessed they probably would. I thought of Jo Spence to contextualise this idea in terms of modern practise as a reference when I […]
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Untitled blog post from "University Campus Suffolk"
‘Conversation with a Trapped Bee.’ The title is a result of an earlier post -there are hidden meanings and dualities in it which I feel support the painting. Conversation not monologue because paint is a two way thing – either […]
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Masked Flesh In my previous post you can see my painting progressing. The face was beginning to become quite mask like. this links back to the main themes of my project as well as introducing a few new ideas. The […]
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That damned hand… Work on my large canvas was going well. I was painting every other day on areas-so that there was always a dryer area to work on – this kept painting flowing in the time scale. One area […]
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Hot Flesh – Meaty rich colour. Along side paint ‘Mr Vovk’ I have began to add colour to my large canvas. At the same time I have been researching the work of Hyman Bloom – He painted autopsies – flesh […]
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Here is an up to date image of Mr Vovk. There are areas of the paint which really excite me but there are still areas I feel could be worked into more. I added Liquin to my paint as I […]
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Mr Vovk painting All the artist I looked at in my dissertation – Cecily Brown, Francis Bacon and Jenny Saville use various appropriation of imagery. Because of this knowledge I have has one eye open (in newspapers in particular) for […]
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Big canvas in progress I always wanted to paint the figure for this project but was unintentionally lead towards the planes of the face. Through experimenting on a small canvas I knew to get the freedom and expression of marks […]
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Untitled blog post from "University Campus Suffolk"
In my last post I mentioned that my original intention was to work from melded digital imagery. This was to try and muster the sensation of feeling trapped, contained, and wanting to externalise how I felt. The tension in yourself […]