A day of mid-term presentation at Camberwell - an intense
day of discussing work within a group without the person whose work it is
talking - either to explain or excuse. A wonderful, bare clear and open
opportunity to see how your work performs, how it relates to an audience and to
consider what it actually communicates. Again Art College is the best place in
the world to work - conversations and feedback around ................. references to blackboard, page,
monument and tombstone were discussed and agreed - The idea of the word,
reading and then language - The idea of the book explored through the use of
the structure of the imposition scheme - refer to book by partly forming the
book - The possibility to read the work as if it were both concerned with
something lost or the opportunity to gain - The work, although made of books,
appears to of directly by-passed references to the book - It talks of time,
sequence and order, ideas that are at the core of book - The sense of
archaeology was strong in the work, along with order and disorder - idea of being
both inside and outside the work - the work considered as a tool for looking at
light - The work is both static and moving, humorous and
tragic, disconnected and isolated - Who is behind the lenses and who is in
front - a piece that explores the sound between speech, the ambient noise that
surrounds us, a homage to cage 4:33 - The work is simultaneously about the past
and the future, a post-apocalyptic object, evidencing something very dark -
Making sense, but maybe not about being lost but about finding more through
being more lost.... 2 more images of covered things in public.
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Monday, 25 February 2013
dividedspaces
I have some work in a paper show in Norwich titled the art and soul of paper - http://www.artandsoulofpaper.com/index.html
Friday, 22 February 2013
closedopportunity
A full day of work at NUA working with the year 3 students on an exhibition at STEW gallery in Norwich and some more boarded up doorways for the collection.
Monday, 11 February 2013
Sunday, 3 February 2013
recomendationoftheseeminglyimpossible
A recommendation – in the
mood for love – a hauntingly seductive film of things unsaid and possibilities
curtailed by the seemingly impossible. The clothes worn by the lead actress - Su Li-zhen (Maggie
Cheung) are truly wondrous and feel like they
are from another place. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118694/
and while I am thinking about clothes! Just re visited Blow up this has to be
watched for the outfits as much as the narratives http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060176/.
Saturday, 2 February 2013
foldingsound
A busy week - 3 days at nua including unit briefings, a session on how to run interviews, which are starting next week and individual tutorials. Tuesday was a solid day of assessments at Camberwell - interesting, as ever to see a wide range of approaches to the idea of the book within the submissions. It was a pleasure to spend the day looking at good work and engaging with the creative thinking embedded within the practices which will culminate in the part-time element of what should be an interesting show come the end of the year.
Popped into the National Gallery to check out depictions of cloth within paintings - looking specifically for the fold got me to Veronese and Van Dyck esp portrait of a Flemish Lady
Another faster than sound - in brittens footsteps - a sound piece by chris watson with accompanying cello by oliver coats - based on walks taken by Britten. It was at its most interesting when accompanied but the clarity of sound was excellent.
I think that I may be the only person left who has attended every one of the faster than sound events as my partner is away and up till today she had also seen them all.
Popped into the National Gallery to check out depictions of cloth within paintings - looking specifically for the fold got me to Veronese and Van Dyck esp portrait of a Flemish Lady
Another faster than sound - in brittens footsteps - a sound piece by chris watson with accompanying cello by oliver coats - based on walks taken by Britten. It was at its most interesting when accompanied but the clarity of sound was excellent.
I think that I may be the only person left who has attended every one of the faster than sound events as my partner is away and up till today she had also seen them all.
Labels:
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national gallery,
NUA
Saturday, 26 January 2013
turnthepagechoice
An intriguing day in Norwich. A day on the
selection panel for Turn The Page. A day looking a wide range of approaches to
the book. Always interesting to look at images of books rather than the actual
objects. The book - a 3D object that exists in space, that often explores time,
sequence and order, can be manipulated in the hand and whose materials have
often been chosen carefully for their textural qualities. It was nice to meet
the other selectors Tanya from
the bookartbookshop, Nicola Dale from Rogue Studios, Manchester and
finally Jules and Marina the organisers. Turn The Page has the idea of being
more than a book fair - the cross between fair and exhibition is a good one and
favours visual work that uses/explores the idea of the
book. But its also about the idea of supporting local and young (in terms of
their CV) artists, providing opportunities, of generating a buzz in the city
and working within a very public
space. So on the whole the two days in May - Friday 3rd and
Saturday 4th May 2013 will be an
eclectic mixture challenging the nature of the book - looking forward to it
already.
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