Death throes and final show

Well it is 2 years since I started and the Ma is finished, the thesis is in and the pictures are hung. If anyone would like to see the death throes of Drawing as Process then go to the Bargehouse, behind the Oxo Tower on the Southbank, London, wednesday to Sunday this week (29 October [...]

City Lit Drawing in Space

Went to an excellent workshop here some few months ago and just found these photos so thought I would share them.
Especially as I was recently sent a link to very
similar sort of thing
The lefthand side is a doll’s leg, sort of doll’s leg size 31 cms long overall.
The drawing is A1, an exercise in [...]

Better late

The Guardian today has at last published an obituary of the wonderful/strange Bruce Conner, 1933 -2008,  a mere 3 months after his death.

Chinese workshop

Some time ago we had avery rough workshop – which barely anyone attended becaue it had been organised to fall just as all the BAs were getting ready for the end of year show (or something). However, we worked with the delightful Fank Wu  Http://blog.sina.com.cn/artistwu on how to use Chinese brushes and inks, to ‘do’ [...]

Musical repetition

I began to look into muscial repetition to slot into the dissertation but then backed off because I realised it was way way  too complex a subject to dip into lightly, BUT I came across this  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8v-uDhcDyg Symphony for 100 Metronomes by Gyorgy Ligeti.  For me this is the perfect sound equivalent to much of [...]

Soooo embarassing

I found this just now http://www.tapeart.com/installations apparently there is whole world of tape art out there that I had never heard of, so embarassing.  But if I ever want to create a wall of coloured chairs then …..
These are the new tape chairs.  I used the same electricians’ tape but as I cut each length [...]

Tape wall-drawing, maybe

Well I warned it could all change. The drawn-round chairs did not look right. Correction they did look right but did not fit with the ink chairs or the stitched chairs. They looked drawn-round, which they were, and then filled in. But the stiched and the inked chairs are made with single strokes. So the [...]

NOT the show

These are the 72 (71 actually) chairs, painted and up

These are the chairs turned round.

After a wonderful tutorial (the first for a while) I realised that I could now let the chairs touch. But more importantly, I think, possibly, the chairs may end up as a wall drawing.  I will put them all up, draw [...]

success, hurrah

Well I shared my despair at the Jerwood rejection so I suppose it would be churlish not to share my joy at getting in to the Discerning Eye with the above. It’s less than 20ins wide – framed; that being one of the rules of the competition. I suppose because smaller means more affordable and [...]

A different plywood chair

This is the only chair I cut out which is in perspective (well sort of). As soon as I cut it I decided not to do any more at an angle; unlike my first drawing of the chairs where I drew them at all sorts of angles, all the plywood chairs have been drawn and [...]