Sponge Repeat

Sponge Repeat, 97x148cm, November 2013, acrylic paint on paper.

Under the surface - printing with acrylic paints with a cut up sponge - the shapes on the sponge where inspired by London photos and previous prints. the repeating style was inspired by Andy Warhol.

Journey Drawing Project Photos

Photographs of the everyday journey:

"You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you" - Andy Warhol

                                     

“A picture means I know where I was every minute. That's why I take pictures. It's a visual diary.” 

―Andy Warhol

Potato Repeat

Potato Repeat, 108.5x136.5cm, October 2013, acrylic paint on paper.

Another piece looking at 'under the surface'. Potato Printing! Duplicated pattern throughout this piece was again inspired by Andy Warhol. The 6 main colours of the colour wheel - red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, plus a black and a white box. Each box has the opposite colour printed on it compared to the background its on. Grids 2 across by 3 up - making a total of 6 boxes have one box per colour, this is repeated throughout the piece. Each of the background colours are next to there contrasting colouring in the 2x3 grids. The warmer back colours have the circular potato print on them while the colder back colours have the line potato print on them.

Printmaking - inspired by London photos

A3 mono print of the London Eye

A3 mono print of a London underground train

experimenting with line - paper/masking tape that I have printed on/over that I've  rearranged to create something new, A3

                                                A3 mono print on china town at night

Notes on Exhibition planning and curating talk

Employability week - Tuesday 5^th November 2013:

The Thought of stuff: May 2010

Alison wilding, Johnathan Callan, Adam Gillam, Jack Strange, Wayne Lucas, Esmeralda Valencia.

Curated by Andy Price and Leila Galloway.

Had a graphic designer

Had a mailing list for private view – adverts in two major art magazine.

Press release – long writing piece.

Idea of exhibition started in 2007

2009: proposal for the show, only one artist out of the original three was actually in the show

Budget draft - £6000 - funding from DMU and RBS funded them but didn’t give them any money, they let them have the exhibition space.

Then did a more realistic budget.

Went over budget by £600 – paid for the all the work to be collected but not taken back afterwards

Insurance for the van and the gallery - where the work was being kept.

Cut the cost a bit by packing up the work themselves, for bigger shows or moving work abroad you would pay professionals.

£800 to pick up all the work

Programme:

5 year old did the title because it fitted better than what the designers had done.

Everyone’s CV had to be emailed to the curators.

Write a little on each artist for the programme, then send it to them to check they are ok with what you wrote.

Instead of having the photos of the artist’s work they had them take photos of their studio space.

Formally keep track of work – a receipt

Create a website www.mittencrab.org  - brought all the other websites so that no one else’s comes up on the search engines.

Gallery seminar

Paid a professional photographers £200 to take photos of the exhibition and the work.  

Army Men film

A little stop-motion video, inspired by Toy Story and my Slinkachu style photos. Around 130 photos all edited together in Premiere Pro, no sound -I don't think it needs it. I had the army men left over from the Slinkachu project I did and thought it would be fun to create my own Toy Story sequence in the form of a stop motion. My aim for this project was to give the idea that these ‘toys’ were in this big Hollywood blockbuster, that’s why I set them up in a war scene and I tried to use similar camera angles that I have seen in big films.

Visiting Artist Number 1

Stuart Cumberland

Notes:
A painter that graduated from London Royal College.

‘Carry on painting’ in 2006. Where he got 4 of the most inspirational artist of the 20^th century and put their heads on 4 of the ‘carry on’ cast.

In 2009 made about 70 paintings – could have 14 on the go at once in the studio.

2011 - Four circle paintings exhibition at The Approach: no depth, shallow, cheap, basic, primary.

Painting in the studio is, to the artist, an anti-social activity – something you can do on your own without talking to anyone else in the studio, but it can get lonely.

Used oil paints – loosely painted Ben-day dots on the background then four different coloured circles over them.

Suddenly stopped selling work over night –then had a breakdown.

He decided to let chance take over – not worry about where he is going, something will turn up.

Lived with friends for a while, moving around a lot, house-sitting. Lived in studio space for a while.

Applied for a residency in Rome – felt that painting was finished, said all he could say about painting.

Does he stay inside the studio in Rome like he has the last 10years in London or go outside and experience Rome. He goes outside because if he wanted to spend time in the studio then he could have stayed in London.

Had a water glass in his bag and cycled around Rome for 3 months, everytime he found a fountain he drank from it and took a photo of the fountain. The fountains ranged from 1600’s to present day ones.   

Inspired by Jasper Johns (after 1985) and Christopher Wool.

Skill and how long something took doesn’t affect the quality of the work.

Old paintings are beautiful but Picasso paints people the way they really are – real people showing the stuff that everyone does but never says.