October 6, 2011 – 2:15 pm
I’m performing with Rob Gawthrop as part of the Empty Orchestra series of events on the 22nd of October in Birmingham. I’m really excited about it – it’s a performance I’ve been wanting to do for a while that’s an extension of the ‘slow visuals’ I did for Library Tapes a few years ago where [...]
September 6, 2011 – 9:43 pm
Looks a lot nicer on vimeo in HD… but it doesn’t loop…
September 5, 2011 – 4:40 pm
I have about 100 frames for a new video piece – not really sure what the plan is at the moment, just enjoying the process and thinking about the video and audio in tandem. Below is a short test I made using PureData, which I set up to move sound emitting objects around in 3D [...]
I have a show next week at Limousine Bull Artist’s Collective in Aberdeen. I’ll be showing new work, mostly drawings that I’ve made over the past year or two that relate to film and video I’ll also be launching the next in the series of Anti-Narrative Comics. More details below: Static – Pete McPartlan An [...]
I’m starting to sell a few small pieces of work, via an etsy shop. The plan is to sell a few small things to help me raise money for more ambitious projects. Up now are two of the studies I made to prepare for making Spoil Ground and the piece you can see above. In [...]
I’m doing a series of drawings for my friend Jo Millett and I’m almost finished – these are some of the sketches I did before I started. I was trying to find a system for drawing the intricate patterns found in drying mud on the banks of the river Hull (from memory). None of them [...]
The work I started making in these posts is going to be showing at Westgate Studios in Wakefield next Wednesday as part of the Temporary Art Show 3 (part 2). More info below: Temporary Art Show 3 Part 2 Wednesday 25th May 2011, 5-9pm Westgate Studios Project Space Prudential Building 55 Westgate Wakefield West Yorkshire [...]
I’m thinking a lot about animation at the moment – partly because of all the bits of film I’ve been working with recently and I’ve come to a kind of a conclusion about what it is that interests me about the medium. I’m interested in change rather than motion. Traditionally animation is about defining small [...]
I got the 60 day domain renewal notice for a blog that I had been writing: from x to x and I’ve decided to kill it. It’s a place I had been using for writing whatever thoughts came into my head about art. Lots of it is silly speculation, uncontrolled and full of odd tangents [...]
I’m playing tonight at Rammel Club as Silt supporting Vampire Blues and Akke Phallus Duo. Below is a bit of a practice I recorded today, it’s unedited and so is a bit rough round the edges. more sketching by ~silt~
February 27, 2011 – 5:15 pm
I’ve added a mailing list sign up link to the site, I want to be able to keep people up to date and also send out the occasional link to free stuff made just for friendly folks. If you would like to stay informed about what I’m up to just fill in your details on [...]
February 20, 2011 – 9:47 pm
Serial, systematic glyphs composed in an a-serial, improvised way using carbon paper to hide the layer beneath whilst drawing. Simply counting specific numbers of movements (straight-lines) per glyph and trying to avoid repetition of similar forms allows the shapes almost form themselves, hiding the layer beneath allows for collisions, building a dense cacophony of structures [...]