Showing posts with label pattern. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pattern. Show all posts

Friday, 15 March 2024

iminabook!


I’m in a book! Pattern and Chaos in Art, Science and Everyday Life (Book) Critical Intersections and Creative PracticeBy Sarah Horton and Victoria Mitchell some work I made whilst in resident at Nanotech DTC in Cambridge. Working on some 3D structures using a present – PLA that gradually blends from one colour to another – the first one looks totally alien. Saw Little Shop of Horrors at the Wolsey in Ipswich – intriguing musical that kept me interested throughout all the show tunes in that it seems to comment on capitalism/slavery. Onto screens – Land of bad –the caring might of America demonstrated through drones and expensive technology! Code 8 part 11 – superhuman powers, robots, authoritarian state – what could go wrong. The Gentleman – wonderful, glorious nonsense. Just at the beginning of Masters of the Air – truly shocking visceral, footage that depicts the utter madness of flying in a metal box into a war zone.

Wednesday, 21 December 2022

lightbringingmeaning


A morning with the pattern and chaos research group at NUA in a workshop with Melanie King exploring the photographic possibilities of phytograms. Some interesting possibilities. Onto screens - Watching RRR is a totally mind-blowing experience – you will see spectacles you have never seen before and couldn’t even begin to imagine, glorious madness. Season 2 of The White Lotus got darker and darker as the episodes progressed, twisted humour. Season 2 of The Capture will awaken the conspiracy theory in you, so layered. Roar is an insightful series of vignettes, rich in metaphor but not so far away from a truth. Triangle of Sadness was genius in its observation of people you like to keep at arm’s length, 3 chapters of madness!

Monday, 7 November 2022

latestbookandsmorefilms

The latest book, pattern magic, is going to be in a show in the Upright Gallery in Edinburgh. It was developed from imagery and ideas I encountered whilst working within a scientific context, as an artist in residence at Nano Doctoral center in Cambridge. The shapes were derived through the study of Penrose tessellation whilst exploring crystallography. I Laser cut the shapes of the spaces and used them as a masking device to create the spray-painted pages. The structure enables multiple juxtapositions, creating a playful experience as the pages are turned. Onto screens - Ruben Östlund’s Force Majeure – a truly disturbing experience with a truly vibrant soundtrack. After this and The Square I can’t wait to watch Triangle of Sadness. After finishing The Patient – a truly frightening set up with a truly bizarre script. Steve Carell is wondrously disturbing, and I was lost at the nihilism of the outcome. And then there was The System – good man, prison drama, corruption etc, On The Line – a radio show call in – with a twist or two maybe!

Monday, 29 August 2022

patternuniquepattern

Went to see the show at artstation, some interesting work and William Cobbing’s performance was very sweet, especially when working with the small children. A week of working on a new body of work – reflecting and building on earlier crystallography pieces the prints were generated using lazer cut paper and card. They started out as angular tessellations but were then manipulated to create a softer feel with curved edges. Although part of a series each piece is unique. The next stage will be to introduce some structure through folding, although some work as prints in themselves. I have a flag in the show at east coast pavilion at Lowestoft. Onto screens – want to feel like you have been blasted watch Nope, what did I just watch? - truly extraordinary. Top Gun Maverick does what it says on the tin if it had a tin.

Thursday, 1 April 2021

busybusybusy







Wood-Sun-Stone - Friends of Roger Ackling
, a Group exhibition and presentation of the book ROGER ACKLING - OÙ POINT L'INVISIBLE by Lydie Rekow-Fon. I had a couple of pieces in this – I can remember a conversation with Roger about locating where the work was and maybe the smoke was the work, rather than the glorious wooden pieces. This has stayed with me and informs my own practice every time I think I’m making work. The studio is full of large scale folded structures waiting for a day of sun and no wind to be able to make some videos of the articulated pieces. Meanwhile another strand of work is looking at reflections - the work is both there and not there! Looking forward to being part of RESPOND - what will I receive? – how will I respond? @essencepress #BABEartistsbooksRESPOND. Just came across me sounding vaguely coherent and supportive of the use of architects in the architectural process - https://www.ribasuffolk.com/why-to-employ-an-architect check out those sideburns. Onto screens - Mollys Game – there is an interesting film in there but a little disjointed, Babylon Berlin – looks great but I think we know where this ends up. Lockdown – some great performances but….  Mitchelle and Webb, Back – not quite Peep Show!

Tuesday, 21 August 2018

privilegedfolding



The folding and printing continues...with a view to thinking about editioning.
A day out in Newmarket to take part in garden of curious A'MUSE'ment - a project set up by http://www.unbosi.org/  - it was a kind of immersive interactive theatre piece - if you have young children I recommend getting to see one of their events - while there I dropped into The National Heritage Centre for Horseracing and Sporting Art.
https://www.palacehousenewmarket.co.uk/  which was really intriguing - alongside the really interesting objects connected to the sport of racing they have real horses which you can stroke, which was cool. The art collection does document the wealthy, privileged and questionable activity of the horse racing fraternity through the ages. Meanwhile a link to the Pattern and Chaos research page at Norwich University of the Arts  https://www.nuapatternandchaos.com/  - recently uploaded my answers to a set of questions -
Les describes his  practice and research as‘…searching for opportunities to be in a place of not knowing’ Les sees Pattern and Chaos as‘…finding the overwhelmingly extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary’ Les ‘s next big idea is‘…combining the experience of working in the crystallography department in the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, Cambridge with what was learnt in synthetic anatomy at Kings, London to create public artwork for a housing estate in Chelmsford with Essex CC and inspire a series of handheld bookworks – it’s all about folding’ There is a symposium coming up and the line-up looks interesting and worth checking out.
so now to some films - do not watch the self indulgent possibly dubious (choose your ism) Lost in London - Woody Harrelson - the technical issue of one take is not interesting enough and apart from a 7 minute segment where Woody riffs with Owen Wilson which is funny it is bad. Meanwhile Orange is the New Black is just too oppressive, maybe it always was. I quite enjoyed The Giver - although a lot of the ideas are retreads from previous sci-fi tropes and actual films but it does look good.

Monday, 9 April 2018

astitchintime


a busy week of planning and some making day as part of making day at OCA - stitching line pattern and chaos - the front and of course the back (as ever) some films - a rethinking the hardboiled detective with Proud Mary - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6421110/?ref_=nv_sr_1 and then there is the truly extraordinary you were never really here - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5742374/ it is a must see. Meanwhile looking forward to Glasgow International - the planning is well underway http://glasgowinternational.org/


Saturday, 17 March 2018

theshadowandthevoid

the shadow and the void - continuing the work on the pieces for Goldlay in Chelmsford. The shadows and their relationship to the objects are really dynamic and have emerged even better than I had hoped.

Friday, 18 August 2017

thefirstmechanicalcut

After much learning with illustrator the lazer cutting tests for the Goldlay Square commission look good - really pleased with how the references have become heightened - the  images of books opening and cell structures 'pop' out of the design. Also when you have a physical thing rather than the digital you really get a sense of the scale. Other physical aspects of its materiality become obvious such as how the design creates excellent shadows.