Week 6
After a weekend in Bath I entered the week feeling properly recharged. It was nice to get out of London for a couple of days, it definately did me good.
Tuesday was quite a long day. I went to a graduate talk by Stephen Farthing at the Royal Academy, which kicked off at 8:45, so it was rush hour across London. It was good to be in what was described as ‘the ideal lecture’ in that we were in a gallery full of the work that was being talked about. Some of the works had something (in paint) between the painting and the viewer, this was described as a veil. He also talked about repeating motifs as being a disruptive force, something that distracts the eye. Once I had journeyed back to college, I began to scale up my work, and make more mess on the floor. Once again working with cement and plaster. It’s nice (I shouldn’t use the word nice) to combine cement, a building material and the pigments and rabbit skin glue, traditional painting materials.
Artists that have been informing my practice over the last few weeks have been Julie Mehretu and Sarah Morris. I also now have a massive reading list too. Being in London is great with so much to see, but I think I’m going to need to be very selective about what I choose to go to see/watch/listen as I do need to spend time reading, writing and making of course. It’s easy to get caught up in too many things.
