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
We’re asked here to think about materiality, a word I’ve only recently come to terms with, and to consider Lange-Berndt’s question about what it means to give agency to material, to follow it and act with it [see reference below]. My initial response is to reject the idea that I give agency to my materials. I choose them after all so I make the first choice as to which class of medium is going to go on stage, as it were. But that isn’t the whole story because I have discovered that, exactly as with writing, while I may have … Continue reading Part 3, project 3 – contextual focus, relationship with materiality
Angela de la Cruz – is there anyone who isn’t a Goldsmiths graduate? With a background in philosophy, de la Cruz got her BA in Fine Art from Goldsmiths in 1994, then an MA in sculpture and critical theory from the Slade. In this exhibition she ‘mangle[s] the stretcher’, to ‘unleash [the work] into three-dimensional space’. I wish I could find this kind of work interesting but unless I know what it’s trying to say, it just passes me by. Novel idea but if it isn’t speaking to someone who would like to hear from it, how can it be … Continue reading Part 4, research point 1
I have fused the first two projects in this serendipitous piece which uses clothing material (nylon, possibly), paint peeled off a well-used palette, and strips taken from the OHP film I use to keep paint fluid while I need it. … Continue reading Part 4
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