Travelling exhibition in the Uni bar.

At last my suitcase visited college! In the union bar of cause!

This item above was acquired in Rouen.

This addition was acquired at Brest

There was a skipe projection project happening at the same time. Two new items for the suitcase; one from our lovely sculpture technician. Spot the plaster safety goggles!

End of term

There have been a lot of things to finish off before Christmas. Prints, paintings and some experiments to do with film. We have studio assessments in the first week back!

I am now having to work out how I will install my two shrine paintings.

We have someone in our year who is a taxidermist and she did a workshop in Uni.

The two mixed media paintings are a mixture of gesso, egg tempera and encaustic paint. They are one meter square.

The above is ongoing in the studio, where I am having a clear up!

Studio update

I have cleared some work out of my space and into the corridor so that I can see what I am doing! I am now working on two square paintings (mixed media).  In the background you can see that I have framed two of the small pieces of the painting that I cut up earlier on in the term. With assessments in the first week back I am focusing on trying to finish off work.

I have already changed some details.

At last some Prints

Here are some of this terms prints.

Just been experimenting with colour photograms today! Always something new to get excited about. I have been doing one of my new suitcase exhibit...... A painted French leaf in a jar!

Travelling to France with my Travelling Exhibition

UCA is forging links with Art colleges in France. I have been lucky to visit Le Harvre, Brest and Rouen in view of participating in future collaborative projects.
I approached this with a spirit of adventure, and opportunism.  My suitcase was only opened three times.
The first time was in Brest. In the Musée des Beaux-Artes de Brest. I did a little experiment! We then visited the L'ecole des Beaux Arts. I have a new addition from Brest from the Beaux Arts machine shop. Taken from a black bin with the permission of the french sculptor tutor. Our schedule there permitted no time for me to make an installation.

(below) In Rouen a bit of play with my room mate in the hotel.

Then in a small installation in the courtyard of the Beaux Artes, Altre Saint-Maclou. An amazing venue. The art college is housed in a medieval medical hospital with a courtyard that was a communal grave for the victims of the plague. It is the most magical and inspiring place to have an art college. Not at all a macabre place but a place of real creativity. My personal favourite Art college!

I would have liked to have done an installation with the French students (following the Crate formulae) but without permission, and with no forward planning or support it was not possible.  It would have involved putting screws into a support. They had a good space for it though!
I am learning from all this. It is a question of how anarchistic I am prepared to be  (Not sure that it is about that!) or how much forward planning I can do without visiting the venue in advance.  I have a couple of brilliant additions to my exhibition from a Brest french Student called Antonin.

Studio Update!

Draft dissertation is handed in so now I am looking forward to doing some intensive studio work! The space is beginning to fill up. Still popping into the screen printing room from time to time. Prints to be posted later.

Below is the up date on the collaborative work with Alexi

Anthony Caro

Well, somebody had to do it. A small shrine to a great man, who actually was a tutor at UCA Canterbury!  ...  So I did

Studio update

I have been finding some time to spend in the studio dispute of the impending dissertation deadline!

The studio is getting more lived in!! There are four of us in this narrow space, all making the most of it!

Here you see the update of the collaborative work with Alexi. We have printed more images onto the painting and have now stretched the canvas onto a frame.

THIRD YEAR

I now have a studio space, studio, and dissertation tutors and so am ready to go!

So this it my studio space. I am trying to work smaller !  This is  just a warm up. It was suggested that I took scissors to my canvas so I did.

And this has been the result so far. Now I have three paintings!

But it is back to working on a large scale for an experimental collaboration painting with Alexi. This is exciting for us both. Both using my print images and working on different colours.
Watch this space. You will see Alexi's images soon. We will spend a short period each day on it when we are both in the studio at the same time. 

I have also been working in the print room doing some silk screens. I have also printed off some of the blocks that I did during the holiday. Notably a knife and fork! I have also downloaded some film which I must edit at some time.

Stanley's Fishmongers

This wonderful little fishmongers have hung the painting that I did at the beginning of last year, in their shop.

If you are in the high street in Whitstable, Kent,  pass by and take a look while you buy some of their fresh fish!

Canterbury Student Market

Tomorrow it is the Canterbury Student Market in the main High Street. I have been to the Hello Print Studio in Margate to quickly print some Lino blocks that I did while I was in Mexico.

'Hello Print' is a great facility.  Here are some of my Lino prints. I am still in the process of wrapping and packing up everything for tomorrow. This time I have focused on simple black and white prints.

It was a very successful  day. I had taken some of my lino blocks, and tools with me, and it was interesting how many people came to the stand staying that they had  the equipment to do lino cuts somewhere in their homes, but hadn't seen them for years. Hopefully they will get their tools out now, and have a go themselves! The above tree I did in Mexico!

MEXICO

Well, the suitcase did travel to Mexico!

And back again.....

With a few additions from Mexico!

(This is a late addition to this post) I have just found this link to an exciting project in Germany.
http://www.aspacecalledpublic.de/ascp4.html#process  A lot more organised than my project!