Tomorrow! Beginning to panic! The fire sculpture is progressing to schedule. Last week the kids helped me to paint flameproof varnish on the wooden frame. I’m not sure how well this stuff works, I’ve never tried it before, but several […]
Fine Art (with Art History).
Tate Britain, London
14 June 2011 to 4 September 2011
Greg Girard, 'House on Huashan Lu, North View, Lane 322, Huashan Lu,', 2005. Courtesy: the artist and Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver/Toronto.
This blog is about what, why and how I produce my art, and also what I do with it – be it in exhibitions, competitions, or sit in a corner of a room ashamed of itself.
‘Painting is a philosophical enterprise that doesn’t always involve paint.’ Howard Halle
My submission is in for the drawing show that’s coming up. Its over to the selection comittee now, i’ve always wondered what happens behind those closed doors. This show is based on John Berger’s definition of drawing as “observation, expression […]
I am currently working on a body of work that is exploring complexity and connections and different facets of the same experience. I often like to follow narrratives and respond not to the story but the events and pressures contained […]
Still drawing for one more painting for next year’s exhibition. I am drawing with a Wacom tablet straight to the computer. I’ve been surprised that people some how think this is a form of “cheating”, I explain that each medium […]
Recently I have been so preoccupied with making editions, to get my work out into galleries that I have been missing out on the creating and inventing. Now it is time to start. I keep feeling the urge to use […]
When I was a photography student learning about colour photography, I had to learn about the properties of light, how it broke apart and how it blended together. It hurt my head. I remember really struggling to accept that green […]
Searching for a way to introduce myself inside these sets, i decided to look for pictures of my self already taken and pasting/placing them in/side this photographed sets. This was in 2009 when I first started working on these photos. […]
Q1. Why did you decide to become an artist? Q2. Why did you decide, after realising what it’s really like to be an artist, to CONTINUE to be an artist? Q3. And, after discovering what it’s really like, why didn’t […]
Time is running out fast. We lost electricity again, so our electricity box was beeping, so the neighbours came out again to see what is going on. They must think we are idiots – this is the third time this […]
We did another hair dresser shoot today. Matt and I have been fiming hairdressers around the world. We just place to camera they for a few hours, in front of the hair dressing chair and let it roll.. We have […]
Open house went well, quiet but nearly everyone sold work with a couple of people doing very well. I swapped a print for a fake faberge framed picture of a pigeon by Sal Penfold. Its excellent and goes with our […]
Standard response from ACE…. with the additional – ‘Our office will close on 23 December 2010 and re-open on 3 January 2011. You will not be able to contact us during these dates.’… ‘There is a high demand for our […]
I saw this today and wanted to share it: http://graduatefog.co.uk/2011/1815/cozette-mccreery-sister-by-sibling-fashion-internship/ It’s a funny/deadly serious response to an interview that appeared in Vogue relating to internships. What struck me most was that the designer – who uses interns – defends the […]
Just the fact of putting together the photos I published in the previous post in a certain way, has showed me a tridimensional possibility to use them. Looking like a doll’s house with two floors I sudenly imagined them as […]
I submitted work to Mis-IN-Formation in Bath although it wasn’t the work I said I was going to submit in yesterdays post. I decided upon what’s going to happen with my A-Board… the (very) short statement I sent off with […]
Getting a bit repetitive here I realise, but then that has been the reality of the past few days or weeks. I have just realised Christmas is in less than 10 days time. I’ve been making cards – I only […]
The formative assessment of our Research Module took place on Monday this week with feedback on Tuesday. Normally I would have recorded the space yesterday, but I had planned to do a gallery-dash in London. I particulary wanted to see […]
http://lisamuten.wordpress.com/ To avoid plagiarising myself I have initially linked this blog to my wordpress one.
Just starting to recover from a two day migraine so am not at my best. I took down ‘Inner Beauty’ on Tuesday afternoon. Pam asked if one wall of it could be taken down but as I took it down […]