Thursday 28 November 2013

At last some Prints

Here are some of this terms prints.






Just been experimenting with colour photograms today! Always something new to get excited about. I have been doing one of my new suitcase exhibit...... A painted French leaf in a jar!

Saturday 23 November 2013

Travelling to France with my Travelling Exhibition


UCA is forging links with Art colleges in France. I have been lucky to visit Le Harvre, Brest and Rouen in view of participating in future collaborative projects.
I approached this with a spirit of adventure, and opportunism.  My suitcase was only opened three times.
The first time was in Brest. In the Musée des Beaux-Artes de Brest. I did a little experiment! We then visited the L'ecole des Beaux Arts. I have a new addition from Brest from the Beaux Arts machine shop. Taken from a black bin with the permission of the french sculptor tutor. Our schedule there permitted no time for me to make an installation.


(below) In Rouen a bit of play with my room mate in the hotel.




Then in a small installation in the courtyard of the Beaux Artes, Altre Saint-Maclou. An amazing venue. The art college is housed in a medieval medical hospital with a courtyard that was a communal grave for the victims of the plague. It is the most magical and inspiring place to have an art college. Not at all a macabre place but a place of real creativity. My personal favourite Art college!






I would have liked to have done an installation with the French students (following the Crate formulae) but without permission, and with no forward planning or support it was not possible.  It would have involved putting screws into a support. They had a good space for it though!
I am learning from all this. It is a question of how anarchistic I am prepared to be  (Not sure that it is about that!) or how much forward planning I can do without visiting the venue in advance.  I have a couple of brilliant additions to my exhibition from a Brest french Student called Antonin.

Wednesday 20 November 2013

Studio Update!


Draft dissertation is handed in so now I am looking forward to doing some intensive studio work! The space is beginning to fill up. Still popping into the screen printing room from time to time. Prints to be posted later.


Below is the up date on the collaborative work with Alexi