PROGRESS
Everything is moving on and making progress. Two more paintings are ready for collection from the framer. I call them paintings in the loosest sense of the word. They are actually Letraset “drawings” on painted board. As with the blackboards I’m working on at the moment, the boards all have an integral history. They started off life as ten 4 feet square workboards which I used during the Watch This Space residency at Phoenix Arts in Brighton 5 years ago – at the very beginning of my Wanderings work. I used them to form a huge 3 dimensional mindmap in the gallery space where I worked for 6 weeks. All of my research and development work was posted on the boards and linked together with tracks and trails of stickers, dots and lines of sticky tape. You can still see them here – http://bluemonkeystudio.co.uk/judith/watchthisspac…
At the end of the residency, the boards returned to my studio with me and over the years have gradually evolved. They’ve been cut down, painted over, and have eventually become works in their own right. The layers of paint have built up. Markers from the residency have been covered over, scraped off or built upon, forming a sort of historic landscape which has become the basis for my current drawings.
