I can’t say this has been easy, but I can say that necessity is very much the mother of invention and with excellent tutor support, I’ve managed to invent myself to an unexpectedly satisfactory conclusion! I think I’ve said this … Continue reading UPM & Level 1 all done and dusted
In my essay for this module, I wrote about finding a route to representing ways in which we could transition, as artists, away from apocalyptic representations of the Anthropocene to a more positive view of human-scale changes we can make … Continue reading Positive anthroposcenery #1
Documenting the Anthropocene: after the celebratory and the horrific, can we begin to posit the emergence of positive anthroposcenery? Abstract Anthropocene: the era of humans. Anthroposcenic: landscapes ‘deemed to mark an Anthropocene epoch’ (Matliss, 2018). In this essay I will … Continue reading Critical review – Documenting the Anthropocene: after the celebratory and the horrific, can we begin to posit the emergence of positive anthroposcenery?
That task here was to use the cut/mix/randomly use method that appears to have originated with Dadaist poetry but was certainly used by David Bowie in his leaner years. I gave it a go, cutting up small sections of a … Continue reading Part 5, working with words
This is from The Conversation 19/07/2021, republished with permission, and it’s here to come back to each time I need to get my head around the NFT (non-fungible token) business. Artists have to eat. They have to pay bills. Giving work away for ‘exposure’ as so many of us have done or are doing is a devaluing of the creative product and makes it harder for those whose livelihood depends on sales. At some level though, this seems to breach a barrier of seemliness. Patronage smacks of obedience; conformity to the wishes of a paying patron; being kept as a … Continue reading That Art/Money/Patronage thing
A small piece arising from an exercise in the Studio Practice module of my OCA painting degree. This is gold and silver acrylic on black cartridge primed with gloss varnish. The thin dark marks are scratched texture made with a … Continue reading Haiku to Klimt
Painting on mirror foil as part of the OCA painting degree course requirements. Based on a lockdown bus ride via webcam from Lancaster to Keswick on damp, dark day. The painting analysis, if you’d like one, is: tiny green/blue strip … Continue reading Blue Bus to Keswick
I’m so pleased to be exhibiting at Sakala in Steyning High street. I knew this shop when it was barely more than a cupboard in Cobblestones and when my sister saw a photo of it, she wanted to move in. … Continue reading Strayfish Arts at Sakala!
This project is still bubbling under but I’ve strong feeling now that it will be built from everything that has gone before and incorporate ways of working that have come from using materials such as mirror film and the selective … Continue reading Parallel Project – anthroposcenery #1
Way back, we had a maths teacher who is said to have advised students, ‘If you can’t answer the question, draw an elephant’. This is the obverse; a series of art questions I find I can’t answer because of their … Continue reading Assignment 4
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