Last week: a review...

So, Monday, last official tutorial of the MFA. On the whole, very supportive and encouraging. Positive about all my suggested degree show ideas. We had a chat about the prints I intend to include, how to edition them, whether to frame them etc. Andrew was of the opinion that I should frame them and i subsequently have looked into this but at a cost of £1600 I don't think that it's a realistic option. If I thought that framing would improve the work then I would be looking into raising that cash some how but as it is I think that, conceptually, they are better off unframed. I have, however, discussed a number of conservationally sound methods of hanging the drawings so that the method of hanging is invisible. I was pondering a rather technically method using Japanese conservators tape when a good friend who techs for Stephen Friedman Gallery suggested acid free Stiki Dots... I'll be trying these methods out as soon as I get chance...


The Jerry's thought for the day of my last tutorial was that I should be aware of my ability to over contextualise myself out of making work... Basically lighten up...


As well as the prints, my degree show plan now involves a series of daily works, 11 in total, one a day from Sat 2nd until Mon 11th. This is made more challenging by the fact that I won't be in the country between Tue 5th and Sat 9th... prior obligations... This is an opportunity for experiment rather than a cause for panic...


Wednesday was a day of making photoshop drawings, I'm happy with how these are coming along. The thought of a show filled with self portrait prints still amuses me no end and I enjoy how this body of drawings is the result of performative experimenting in what feels like a reversal of expectation, to a certain extent. This said I think the drawings are good things, they aren't just a joke for my own amusement.


Thursday's trip to Glasgow proved very fruitful. Nadia and i met and within 30 minutes had thrashed out a plan for the GI show, much more than we had achieved in weeks of emails. The bulk of the work still lies ahead but that's not so daunting now we have a plan...


It was also good to go and see Kinning Park studios and community centre, they appear to be doing good things.


That's all for now.

Buckets

Harris bucket at Homebase

Things that need blogging...

1) Degree show: I have a plan... I intend to have a different work (performance) every day of the show. I've made a calender type thing in my studio and everything. So far I'm thinking of including a variation on the bin work and a new rope escape. I also intend to make works that use the invigilators as performers,  face painting, action and verbal works. I will have to plan and propose each work in detail in order to submit them for assessment and I intend to run up a bill of events which may well end up in the book... feels good to have a plan...

2) Simone has invited me to make a work in the glittery, sequin-y environment/lift that she is planning for the degree show. No doubt there will be further discussion about how this might happen but I think that this could be a nice follow on from our project space last year...

3) G I: Slow progress on the collaboration front here, but progress none the less. We have a little under a month until the show is upon us and still no idea. I think that another trip to Glasgow is needed... Hope to know more soon.

4) I'm not sure I have a 4... I ended up having an impromptu project space with some BA 2nd years last week. I've been going along to their project spaces, in the same way I did with the 4th years last year. One of the students who should have been showing work wasn't there so I ran down to my studio, grabbed a couple of drawings and managed to hang them in about 2 minutes.

It was fun to do, and good to hear what the students had to say about the drawings and the performance they alluded too, given that I'm unsure about this work myself at the min... It was good to hear the thoughts of John Owen and Rachel Adams too. There is something funny about a performance leading to a series of drawings, its seems contrary to convention. Now I have two different strands to the same body of work... performances and drawings, the two don't necessarily have to meet.

Ye Olde Paintings...

Because some people keep asking and because this way I have access to a few should I need them, here are some paintings circa 2001/02. Sorry about dirty slides and tiny digital images... technology ay..

Boetti - Tate/Sprueth Magers

Pirate images from two Boetti shows, a few from Tate and more from Sprueth Magers. Wonderful to see both shows. the Tate's need to squeeze all the work they could get their hands on into the space they had was highlighted further by the nice roomy hang at Sprueth Magers, the difference between museums and commercial galleries I guess, but nothing could stop Boetti's work from being ace.

Tate

Tate

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Sprueth Magers

Franz Erhard Walther at the Drawing room

This was well worth the trip. Good to see somebody better than you doing what you've been trying to do long before you tried to do it... Would still like to see a larger show of his work, they don't seem to happen in the UK much, but his drawings are great. They must be traced from photograph's but maybe not...

Hanging with Thomas Hirschhorn

My painting with Hirschhorn's stamp

Thomas Hirschhorn

Ok, so it's in a friend's house and it's a stamp but I was still chuffed to see an old painting of mine hanging on the same wall as a Hirschhorn...

everything is a remix

everything is a remix...


Watched this whilst in London, it's very good.

Metropolis II by Chris Burden (the movie)

Glasgow

Hey Hey

Here be the link to information about the GI Show I'm in. and here is a link to my page on the GI website...


Cazart!

Boetti

"a glorious and philosophical form of idleness" 


I'm 99% sure that the above quote is attributable to Boetti, as I read it in the introduction to the catalogue for the Boetti show currently happening at Tate Modern..


It brings to mind something that my dad used to tell me...


"give the laziest man the hardest job and he'll find the easiest way to do it."


This probably speaks to the genetic laziness that runs in our genes, though that paints an unfair picture, my father is extremely hardworking.


Though they aren't the same thing both seem to speak to my approach to art making...


I want to do something with the Boetti quote... Nay, I will do something with it...

GI show

I'm in this... somehow


Nadia Rossi and I are the Scottish contingent... meeting tomorrow to find out more.

drawings...