It is the last few day before the exhibition opens. Yesterday I finalised a lot of drawings, so I have about 12 to choose from for the show. Today I will install the plug pieces and maybe do some more drawings.
Twitter is fun, although i can see myself getting really sucked in, like all thing internet!
Just reviewing my CV, I should write a statement for the show too….
A few days to write about…
Gallery Visits on Saturday, and what a good day we had of it!
Sumarria Lunn has a stunning exhibition on, Programming Myth by Adam Dix and Tim Phillips. It is about a notional religion, with painting and artifacts, they combine the language of faith with the high business world of communication technology. Beautifully made, subtly evocative and totally enthralling, I highly recommend you catch it.
Doodled round some other places but ended the day with Polly Morgan’s show at All Visual Arts. Again, enchanting, beautiful and complex. She has created a parallel mythical world were natural history has been skewed, but some how it still all make sense.
Took Sunday easy, but of course I can’t walk past a gallery without putting my head it, checked out Free Range and there was one stand out for me there, Sophie Carters project NSA were she engaged in the world of swingers websites, and documented her interactions with people and also travelled to take portraits. Personal, challenging and fascinating.
We had a lecture Monday morning about all things social network…. so, I have joined twitter…. @jemmajwatts… not really sure what the hell to tweet though!
Today was a bit of a non-day. To be honest my failed experiments yesterday knocked me a bit (thanks for your supportive words, Kate:))
Saying that I did achieve a lot of practical things, organising, clearing my space and thinking about starting a new statement (I’m taking it slow!)
I am guilty of forgetting to value these practical things, and they are important because without them the creative things couldn’t happen.
I wanted to put some images up today of my final(ish) selection of drawings, but I have mislaid my camera cable, grrr. I promise a gallery of new stuff next week!
For now, our invite for you one and all!
Yesterday I did some experiments in the morning photocopying over some of the drawings I have been producing. I didn’t think this was successful and I ruined a drawing that I really liked. It is hard when that happens, when you go too far and spoil something, and I am working in such a minimal way that if you over step the mark there is no wrestling it back.
Ho hum
In the evening a few of us attended Zeitgeist Arts talk about writing artist statements and talking about your work. It was really useful and got me especially thinking about the importance of titles; they pointed out that when people are selecting work from jpgs the title can catch the eye and stick in peoples memory.
However there are works were a title would be inappropriate, Catrine’s work for instance; to give her abstract painting (produced through spontaneous marks and responding to each change on the canvas) titles would encourage a figurative reading of a purely abstract image.
But,I think I have titles for my plug works, they are pretty cheeky!
My work centres around psychogeography and mysticism in urban spaces. Currently leading Arts Lab programme at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts
