holymotors

A huge recommendation – a thing that is more philosophical discussion than film, more as an idea, more as an art piece than a film – think Matthew Barney - cremaster cycle -  the more you think about it the more it becomes – Holy Motors by Leos Carax a meditation on the virtual in our lives and the multiple narratives we engage in. the film just gets bigger and more!!... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2076220/

codexbetweenspaceandstructure

I’ve been invited to engage in a project with some alumni from the Camberwell Book Art course.  Chris, George and Egidija have set up a project called codex between this and that.

http://collectiveinvestigations.tumblr.com/

The bookwork they are proposing focuses on the codex and I’ve created two double page spreads that look at the relationship between maker and audience whilst

This work has emerged from the rebinding and unpicking project inspired by a set of photographs within the archive that document the construction of a building.

whatwedo

a week of hanging the student show and all looks good - if in Norwich pop into STEW gallery - the show is open till friday 10.30 - 5.00 - there is some interesting work which really shows the individual nature of what we do on the BA Textiles Course at NUA.

seventythreeshowatstew

year 3 textiles design and surface design students at NUA have a show at STEW. this week is to be spent hanging.

artcollegeisthebestplaceintheworldtowork

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.

dividedspaces

I have some work in a paper show in Norwich titled the art and soul of paper - http://www.artandsoulofpaper.com/index.html

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.