Well I’ve been on a stay-cation so had a break from my blog. I have found it good to step back and walk along the river and think rather than do. However over the two weeks I did also see The Vortisists, re visited Miro, still love his ‘Majesties’ and meandered into the Arte Povera Galleries and felt very much at home
As I’ve noted before the more artists and writers I find the more I want or need to see and understand. So to my long list I’ve now added Marisa Merz, Grenville Davey and Abraham Couzvillegas amongst others
A concern I have is whether my identifying with past art movements more closely than those of the present will set me back in time rather than with my contemporaries? Perhaps a glance back won’t be harmful as long as I don’t get lost in the past, after all I am of the present by default?
I also visited a panel discussion at the Jerwood Space, ‘The Materiality of Things’ part of the Makers Open. I thought it would be pertinent to my research though I didn’t come away with any strong leads, perhaps that’s just as well given how many I have to follow already…
Finally, I have booked the Technologies of Drawing Conference at Huddersfield University and am really looking forward to it so I ought to log off and make some drawings and get properly engrossed in my work
I seem to be lost in research, reading and visiting exhibitions. And I’ve finally made a tentative start with drawing towards the next series of experiments. I’m using scanned images of the interior of the Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich to help me explore interior spaces and how my works (just ideas hand drawn at this stage) may look when installed. I intend to explore this work further on chalk ground panels, digitally and as dry point prints…
Since the Saatchi show New Sculpture I’ve visited the RCA Show, were I was taken by the sculpture of Carwyn Evans, Dexter Dymoke, Simon Schafer and Samuel Williams-really liked his yellow wash bowl trundling through woodland- their use of materials and subject matter is intriguing. Also the photography of Annett Reimer and Justyna Kabala (printmaker). I finally managed to get to ‘Falling Up the Gravity of Art’ and was drawn to Cornelia Parker’s ‘Neither From Nor Towards’ an installation of sea worn bricks from collapsed houses on the South Coast and a great photograph ‘Conjurations’ a women suspended in space by Clare Strand
Each time I see an exhibition or visit a website I find more artists to investigate. Just now when I logged on to post a blog I looked at Linda Duffy’s blog which led me to a recent show ‘Women Make Sculpture’ at the Pangolin London, amazed that I could have missed it?! I’ve downloaded the catalogue and I’ll try and get to the current show Terence Coventry ‘New Work’
And I thought I’d also take a look at ‘Space and Place: The Perspective of Experience’, Yi-fu Tuan and at ‘As Eve Said to the Serpent’, Rebecca Solnit, writers I came across in Maya Lin’s ‘Systematic Landscapes’
I’m also contemplating going to the ‘Technologies of Drawing’ conference part of the Sculpture Network at Huddersfield University in late August. So lots to read, think about and see
