I’ve been really working on my first wall section since my last post and thats about all i’ve been upto… still been doing alot of drawing trying to work cerrtain things out and have been making decisions as to how the walls are going to stand. I’ve literally just finished cutting my first board and am increadibly pleased with it… i want to get going with painting it up but am going to have to wait until i can afford a new roller which is probs a good thing as it means i won’t just rush my way through the work as i tend to do…
So. More drawing and reading for a few days… I’m currently reading Claire Bishop’s Installation Art: A Critical History for a bit of opposition to all the Bouriaurd I’ve been reading lately…
I’ve been mostly making recently which has been really fun… still not particularly reached conclusions but I’ve got 5 weeks to make decisions before I get back into the studio properly. But I’ve been developing my fence/wall in more 3D methods as well as drawing a lot…and trying to make decisions on colouring.
Also re-read relational aesthetics and postproduction.
Anyway quite pleased with the developments this week and am looking forward to seeing them realised.
Whilst working on my digital 3D models and computer game for object for moving over #2 i mentioned last time, I have started developing another method of creating spaces or sites that will work in a similar way to my sign works.
It basically consists of a series of walls, I’m not sure how these are going to be created yet but have been really experimenting with sculpture, printing and painting and still have quite a few things to try out but am currently quite pleased with how its going… really want to get back into a proper studio space with access to a full workshop though!!
I’m also trying to develop something to happen within these created spaces, I’m thinking about performances, collection of objects, distribution of objects – but still not really sure on that either…
Also I’ve been trying to find ways to create good quality material on the cheap and whilst walking around the lickey hills earlier today i started considering collecting tree sections to shape down in to timber??? MAYBE???
I have also applied for an internship at international project space which would take up 2 days a week for 3 months but i think i could learn a great deal from, I’m really looking forward to hearing back about that!! I’m also still waiting to hear back from the LSA about helping with the re-formatting of the exhibition application forms…
Quite a bit going on still, had a weeks work doing the gallery rebuild for the MA showat BIAD, Birmingham City University and the 125 years showas well which has been intresting and more importantly its been really good to get back into the marg st. building…it seems like ages since i’ve been in my studio there!!!
I also unfortunatly had my work for the out yer treeexhibition at coombe abbey rejected due to health and saftey regulations which was quite upsetting but actually made me realise that the work could be furter developed anyway so i’m going to continue on with those… I’m currently looking for sly spaces i can just put them up in so i can test the strength of them myself and investigate the way they hang… I’m also hopeing that trying them will answer if i need two ropes on them like an actual swing…
I’ve also been working on how i’m planning on showing my object for moving over #2 once i un-install it from napton skatepark and have been experimenting with more digital 3D modeling and having been thinking about skateboarding computer games (an indoor version everybody can participate in!!!) but will discuss this more when i have got a bit further with it…
Been really rather busy again lately, the LSA summer show opened about a week ago with my sign work #2 on show, however it was the first show my works been in where i have had no say over its installation and was hence fairly disapointed about how it had been done…I had hoped it would be in an open part of the gallery but instead it was pushed up against a wall, also some information was left off my name/info tag (the fact limited edition prints were available) which was dissapointing, but i did however manage to sell a print at the opening anyway!!! And it was a rather large group show (120 artists if i remember rightly) so i cannot complain too much. It was a good experiance and made me realise that everything to do with my work needs describing and explaining before letting it go.
I also returned to napton again to get photo’s of object for moving over #2 and was delighted to see it has been used even more since i was last there… the marks left from its use (object for moving over #2 – stage 2) remind me that the work is a collabaration with an unknown partner and i think that the work naturally evolving with its own public is some thing very important to me, however if it was not being used and this was its public’s response to it i think i would feel quite upset – but at the minuite i’m pleased!!!
I have been working on my rope swings as well and have been platting red, yellow and blue rope into 9ft lenghts which i think will use on my actual swings – this process gives the rope a real solid feel and still mentains quite a minimal aesthetic which is something i am again pleased with… the slightly craft based process of platting also makes me feel the work is somehow more appropriate to the abbey setting it is being made for which i like
