PAINTING EXPERIMENTS

I had just finished my essay and had a canvas ready so I let rip. This is a post essay celebration!

Now you can see my problem! Before the end of this year I have to combine combine and select from all my different experiments to establish my way of working. I have been using my college experience to work on a large scale.

Seasonal Greetings

NEW EXPERIMENTS

I decided to explore imagery related to Christianity and to experiment with incorporating film. The experiments with film have been interesting but so far not successful!

This is the largest painting that I have done so far.

College 'Open Day' Expo

It is open day in UCA this Saturday. Some of the third years have displayed their work in one of the corridor exhibition spaces. This piece was chosen to put into the show with them ...... a non studio picture to come later!

'I reckon that my body is in the way' is about the predicament of dealing with changing perceptions. In this case the protagonist is not only the brain but also the object. It is a statement about dyslexia.

This piece followed on from some screen prints that I did.

I am finding inspiration

www.basilbeattie.moonfruit.com

www.albert-irvin.com/biography/

www.jerwoodgallery.org/whatson/3/gillian-ayres

www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/ivon-hitchens-1291

My new studio space!

It is great to be back at college but a bit daunting at first! We are  sharing the studio space with the third years. The space is light and purpose built for painting which is brilliant. So this is the year of colour. The burka is on the back burner............but watch this space because I did a little filming with Aine a couple of weekends ago!
I have also been back in the print room. On the far right you can see a hint of what I have been doing, pinned on a bit of space that I have hijacked.
The seminar group that I am in is 'Shifting Attention/Shifting Perception'. It is interesting but "Oh so intense"We are all either unhinged or exhausted after the sessions!! But the overriding feeling is that I have chosen the right one of the five options. Great tutors.

Volunteering at the WHITSTABLE BIENNALE

I am volunteering at this years Whitstable Biennale www.whitstablebiennale.com. I had been allotted to be general 'on hand' helper for Kieren Reed who is constructing a sculpture which is to function as HQ for the duration of the Biennale. In fact I get called to different locations to do anything from painting sea scout huts in preparation for an installation, to transporting large wooden frames in wild sea squalls to the shoreline, and running shopping errands. My work with Kieren has for the most part been to answer some of the many questions that the passing public have concerning the very visible TEMPORARY structure appearing on the beach; so that it can be built in time! Of cause I also get to see the process of constructing the sculpture.

and then this happened to the weather!

To see the finished article you have to come and visit the Biennale which kicks off this Saturday.

 Whitstable Biennale September 1st-16th 2012

A late update...  And kick off it did! I got some work invigilating Gareth Moore's Children's Films during the weekends. So now I know how to work a 16ml projector......thanks to Neil! I also spent the day helping with Jeremy Deller's  'Sacrilege'  (bouncy Stonehenge). What a brilliant work out and chance to  experience it.  (I might find a photo!)

There was so much exciting film and performance to see. Personally I especially liked Tanya Axford's 'The path Made by a Boat in Sound (3 down).

There was also a brilliant 'AIR' event and a great Satellite program. (so I have joined up and am now a Satellite member).