I’ve spent far too long in front of open office/google docs this week, needed to do some mindless doodling with the pens and pencils I could find in my living room. First opportunity I’ve had to think about the Real Time Strategies exhibition I’ve proposed for later in the year.
Just some tests on 35mm film.
Since 2007 I’ve been involved with a project initiated by The Salford Restoration Office called Centrifuge. It started with a field trip for 20 (emerging) artists from across the North of England to Documenta. Frankly it was advertised as professional development which sounded pretty dull, but I thought sod it it’s a free trip to [...]
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Artist group Contents May Vary have asked me to take part in their show Cu that they are putting on as part of Future Everything in Copper Jacks, the Palace Hotel basement bar on Oxford Road, Manchester with the following people: Richard Barks, Richard Bevan, Black Dogs, Alice Bradshaw, David Cochrane, Michael Day, Sarah Farmer, [...]
My submission for the for the second of the Essaying Essays:An Assembling publication. A Vowel-Network drawn on A2 graph paper, folded to A4. Which will be on display in Berlin at the Reading Room.
Bleaching Trailers Black marigolds to keep the narrative off my hands. It’s an irritant. “In case of contact with eyes rinse immediately and seek medical attention.” Tests… Foot Prints?
I’ve been doing these long drawings on continuous computer paper, below is one I have stopped working on and above is one I’m just starting. They should really be horizontal, as a reference to the scrolls I saw at this exhibition of Chinese 17th/18th century artist Wang Hui’s work at the Metropolitan in NY which [...]
February 23, 2010 – 6:06 pm
The video above is a short test, using screen captures from Google Mars. I really like the intricacies of the jpegy compression and the bizarrely coloured artefacts that appear in the noise. Not sure where to go from here, I think I need to apply some kind of logic rather than just an intuitive scanning [...]
February 19, 2010 – 7:12 pm
Above, scratched acetate slides. Below, a ghetto light box made from a cardboard tube, a strip light, holes, tape and a piece of tracing paper.
February 19, 2010 – 7:00 pm
I’ve finally bought a camera so I can take pictures of the things I’ve been making over the past few months. So I’ve added a page for Books and Multiples, which will house all the little zines, books and screen prints I’ve been doing.