After enrolling back at college I had a gallery day yesterday, and saw some really interesting work. I went to the jerwood drawing prize, tate modern & Vyner street where Salon Art prize had its PV.
My head is so full of ideas that I’ve had insomnia all night and I’m too tired to write or draw properly, but I have to get the ideas out of my head somehow. I have been reminded of a quote about sleep deprivation that I’ve saved.
SLEEP DEPRAVATION
‘Sleep deprivation can mimic the symptoms of starvation, particularly in children – victims become disoriented and cold. They lose their sense of time, becoming locked in an interminable present. Sleep deprivation also causes a number of neurological dysfunctions, which become more extreme the longer it continues. In the end your waking hours take on the logic of a dream, where odd things are connected and you are just angry, angry, angry with the world that will not let you rest.’
(from Mark Wallinger the Russian linesman p34. anna funder, stasiland: stories from behind the berlin wall, London granta, 2003. chapter 3, ‘bornholmer bridge’ is about Miriam weber who, as a sixteen year old, nearly succeeded in scaling the berlin wall.
JERWOOD drawing is always interesting to see the range of work. But I enjoyed more seeing the drawings of Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern I havn’t seen the drawings before and so they made a particular impression, spontaneous and amusing. The other artists of course are good too, David Shrigley, Jake and Dinos Chapman and Marcel Dzama but I have seen them before……
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/explore/room.do?show…
I thought the SALON ART PRIZE was brilliant. So many interesting themes and manifestations around notions of utopia/ dystopia and futuristic visions. Sort of what I’m thinking about at the moment. I’ll post a few images of what most links in with my ideas. I’ve been thinking of drawing people and patterns. Thinking about ideas of community, loneliness, alienation, utopia & enlightenment.