Three small pieces, made from a commitment to "I will spend 20 minutes making something today". I didn't really enjoy it, it felt like more of a 'have-to' but I bloody did it! (And I don't like them much, apart from the one which secretly says 'Start'.)
slow down
squares
tart
My studio is now here at home and being surrounded by my things is spurring me on.
Some creatives who influence my work include:Jessica Stockholder, Yayoi Kusama, Richard Tuttle, Helen Frankenthaler, Jen Stark, John Cage, David Shrigley, Bobby Baker, Miranda July, Eva Hesse, Ian Davenport, Spencer Fitch, Anya Gallaccio, Joseph Havel, Mona Hatoum, Janine Antoni, Gaston Bachelard, Matthew Barney, Amanda Couch, Tara Donovan, Richard Long, Irving Penn, Nicholson Baker, Conrad Shawcross,Tim Knowles, Phydilla Barlow, Anne Bean, Cornelia Parker“Found objects are massed and lyrically intertwined with vivid color” Stockholder"Art is in the ability to make unpredictable associations and connections, making ordinary things seem extraordinary." Unknown“Even though I make discreet works, i like to consider the way in which everything works together as an ensemble so that there is an accumulative effect, so that not only the work will have a specific intention or construction or some specificity, but the whole group of things will build to one kind of idea” Havel
Art, Interesting and Inspiring
This shape, I can't stop drawing you. It's taken from a sketch of Christo & Jeanne Claude's 'Surrounded Islands' which looks like this:
"6.5 million square feet of material was stretched over seven miles and used to surround a series of uninhabitated islands off the coast of Florida. The resulting work was visible from all around and visually augmented through the use of a shockingly bright pink." See more of this incredible installation here. Lots of sketches and photographs.
Design, Interesting and Inspiring, Light Box, Photography
Just made this, a poster of Lomography's 10 Golden rules to use in the Light Box shop for the Appreciation of Beauty workshop, where participants get to use Lomo Cameras (Fish Eye, Mini Diana and Actionshop Flash) to take photographs. I aways knew of the 10 golden rules, but making this here poster just refreshed it all for me, feeling very inspired!
Found Images, Interesting and Inspiring
This is going to be a big one... I have bought a new sketchbook and wanted to start this new burst of creation with taking a look at my inspirations. I'm forever saving images to the 'Nice found images' folder on my desktop, but never really take the time to look at them, so I'm putting them up here, reminding myself and sharing them with you.
I've tried to reference the images, but mostly I don't tend to make note.
If you own anything and want a link to you on here, no problemo, just email me or comment.
Balloon lady on the beach. My dreams sometimes look like this
Wu-Tang album art
Your breakfast is looking at you
Blissful photo by
All signs should look like this
Amber colors in jars
Big hairy/leafy window. They must have a big spider problem though, yuck
I think this came from
Inside cover of a book
Breakfast themed poster
Big bear
Amazing colors on a floor. I can smell it from here -
Peep hole
Alerted dog. I love his little face
Smily dog
Awesome puss
French Vogue interiors, as found by
French Vogue interiors, as found by
Fairy lights photograph well
Big post-it installation
Cosy lions
Llama man
Old fashioned tennis
Zoomy eyes
Cracking colors
A nice color for a bedroom, with clouds too
- he makes diamond sculptures
- he makes diamond sculptures.
Sweet
Flat-roof jumping. Nice prism
Sexy Scarlett shaving her legs
Little man-boys with big heads
n as Xmas tree decoration
Truly flowery wallpaper
Color!
MARTIN BOYLE. SWEET WALL RELIEF.
17 x 17 x 17 Rowntree fruit gums.
Abril Lamarque, 1930
Soap bubble popping - image by
Baby animals print by
has a trapeze in her living room
's Ink printing
Scaryyyy
Abbey Lee Kershaw by Max Doyle
Rorschach test
Jessica Stockholder installation
Jessica Stockholder installation
Pandas
Cyclops Squid made from Super Sculpty by
series of illustrations by
Max Bill
Bowl found by from
Shark teeth
Dyed cats
Blurry lines
CARL KLEINER for IKEA.
I have kept the Apples from my degree show piece - 'Sense' which was exhibited in the following shows:
Barcode, University College for the Creative Arts, Farnham, May 2008
Free Range, Truman Brewery, London, June 2008
Lucy Barfoot, Room 212, Bristol, January 2009
New Contemporaries, Fairfields Arts Centre, Basingstoke, January 2009
They are like tiny little rocks, and they don't smell any more. They are turning powdery - I wonder if one day they will just disappear? The blue and baby pink apples are three years old now. Older, but bigger. Must be something to do with the lacquer? I just spray painted those two and the others were covered in car lacquer, two coats.
