January 2012
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December 2011
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October 2011
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March 2011
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Orozco
A brief spell of sunshine this morning. Enjoyed the Gabriel Orozco exhibition at the Tate Modern. A blend of everyday experience and playfulness.
Also worth having a look and also seeing Ai Weiwei’s installation of Sunflower Seeds in the Turbine Hall.
Carmabole with Pendulum
An Island Within an Island
Breath on the Piano
Cats and Watermelons
From Roof to Roof
December 2010
1 post
More on love/hate relationship with travel →
Article from NY Times on “Do We travel To Get There Or Get There To Travel”?
November 2010
3 posts
Setting up for dalla Rosa
Setting up exhibition at dalla Rosa
G Leveling up
All done!
Wandering mind →
From Calgary to London
A Rain day. The temperature is definitely falling. Kettle on. Branches are rustling in the wind and leaves are flying. Good to be indoors.
Have decided to go with “A Spot of Time” for the exhibition title at dalla Rosa gallery in November.
Full day of art making planned today. Morning collage, afternoon working on mini-panorama based on the collages and memory of place. The...
October 2010
1 post
Spot of Time
An Autumn day in London. The skies started as one indistinguishable mass of grey cloud. But as the day has moved on, there has been a fresh breeze and the sun has started to come out. The trees outside my window are slowly losing their leaves. There is something nice about seeing the setting sunlight on sparse branches with golden leaves. Hearing the faint sound of children playing somewhere...
July 2010
3 posts
WatchSomewhere I Used to Know, Wishing You Were Here, 2010 Acrylic on Canvas, Painting installation, dimensions variable. The immersive installation is about how we use cameras and media devices to view the world and capture our experiences… sometimes in the busy process of trying to capture life’s impermanence, we forget ourselves, losing a bit of the vitality of the present moment.
Winter Open Studio
Getting ready for the Winter Open studio
A shot from the outside of converted studio space
Interior photos of immersive panaroma painting 2 x 12 m….
“Somewhere I used to know, wishing you were here.”, Acrylic on canvas
Picture of 5IGN5 cards… all 100+ of them.
Ars Memorativa: Residual Memory Bank, 2010, acrylic on wood
Detail
Everyone...
Year in review
Some free time to upload some pictures I’ve dug out from the 12 month residency. Some process shots during my time at the FT.
Collected old postcards which began to form basis for large panorama.
Large 2m memory drawing based on my train ride through Switzerland.
April 2010
1 post
A thing of beauty
Been awhile since I posted a 5IGN. Saw a couple today that were strangely apt.
Lately, the mind has been plagued with doubts about whether beauty still has a place in art today when most contemporary art seems either impenetrable, gimmicky or just there to shock. In this context, art that seeks to try to capture something beautiful gets quickly labelled sentimental or romantic. I’ve had...
January 2010
4 posts
“What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and making whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in ten seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite...
kickstarter →
Legendary Surtr9 has forwarded me a useful link in response to my recent pining. Has started the wheels turning. I feel excited! :)
Now back to work.
artist statement draft
The scent of a perfume… a colour, a faded photograph or postcard can trigger memories of long forgotten experiences. Memory is elusive. It doesn’t exist as a physical medium that can be held or touched. Rather it exists as a complex set of processes… constructions and relationships within the brain. It can be thought of as a powerful group of systems, which create, store and recall...
Current projects
Haven’t updated in awhile. So whilst I’m waiting for the paint to dry, I thought I’d post a bit of where I’m up to.
Have been listening to alot of Chopin lately.
I’m working on two painting projects at the moment that are dealing with memory.
The first is a large drawing/painting of a landscape panorama that spans 10 m across and over 2 m in height.
It...
November 2009
3 posts
the imperfection of human beings
“It was very hard to swim across a river not to get my clothes wet. and
got smell and dirt on it.” - my dad
A window has opened. Some line has been cast out into the past and into the future. I don’t know where it’ll lead if I tug and follow it.
My dad used to tell me long stories when I was a kid. It was just me and him. We had a market stall in Wollongong....
The long line
There is freedom in creative play. But I’m realising being playful can sometimes be difficult. I’m exploring these new tangents. Entering uncharted waters. Cautiously dipping the toe in…
What starts to kill off play is when I start being critical of what I’m doing. Where is this going? Is this absurd? No one will understand. I’m wasting materials. No one will...
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances:...”
– carl jung
October 2009
4 posts
Elkins missed his flight. Boooo.
But one of...
Pictures & Tears
“What does it mean - this is the question that taxes me the most, and it continues to vex me now that I’ve finished this book - for people to spend their entire lives looking at objects clearly designed for expressive purposes, and not be moved even once (in any circumstance, for any reason, no matter how indefensible) to the point of actually shedding a tear?
I am not sure. But I...
WatchI love this talk by Beau Lotto. The beauty of colours. Beauty of vision.
invigilating
Been interesting days and been having some interesting talks and discussions with other artists. All of which has left me thinking about the myriad of possibilities that exist and the expansive, dynamic breadth of art. It also can be a bit overwhelming. One can feel like a deer in the headlights, paralyzed with the flood of options streaming in. There is a bit of a push and pull going on...
September 2009
3 posts
“Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to...”
– Chuck Close
June 2009
6 posts
get ready
I haven’t painted for close to three months now. And just when I thought it was beginning to take its toll, I received some great news this week. I’ve been offered a place with the Florence Trust studio residency in Highbury & Islington. It’s in a pretty funky little church. Tis all a bit exciting and I’m curious as to see what will arise over the next year....
Listening through some old playlists. Strange how music can transport… feelings, places and people are reconstructed inside. Memories re-experienced with a beautiful and nostalgic clarity.
I was cycling through some photographs on my camera and I realised I missed one.
This photo was taken a couple of weeks ago. The exact date I’m not sure, only that I was on a bus going through...
in the morning
Two months now in London town, and have been doing quick sketches of people on the tube whenever I manage to get a seat. So sketches seem to be made between King’s Cross St Pancr(e)as and Russell Sq. Most often they tend to have nodded off and are speeding along some rem track. Perhaps dreaming of not going to work.
I opened up an old journal because I was hoping I’d find a recipe...
Head has been thinking too much, getting those clumsy strumings and twangs of nervousness. It’s mostly re: $$$ + time + home + work + my (real) work. Have applied for a studio residency and have my fingers and toes crossed. Need to find some space to work.
There is a scene in the film Hunger where a boy is running through a forest. He stops once and looks behind before he enters the...
somebody outside
I think this was taken at aldgate, but memory is fading. Nights are beginning to blur. Dinner in Bricklane. Have been eating very well of late. things are in flux and need to keep the big picture in mind.
It’s nearly midnight. Listening to miss ternheim for the first time, and I’m speechless. very beautiful… it’s a new secret I’ve found…
diddley
Saturday was spent with M. Whirlwind tour of London starting at Primrose HIll then ending at Borough markets around lunch time for a food feast. Need to start thinking about holidays and where to go. I think I was overly optimistic when I bought some sunscreen on friday.
May 2009
20 posts
Tired at work today. Went to the canteen and hit the expresso machine button. Nothing more depressing than a coffee machine than doesn’t work. Had to settle for some filtered coffee instead. 73.p. Started to perk up, and in the back of my mind, I was thinking I need to start drinking coffee again.
It’s 14.38. It’s 14.42. It’s 14.47.
Time is either moving too...
