stuff I like: February 2013

Monday 25 February 2013

Other Projects and Deadlines

This year seems to be filled with a steam of deadlines to be met. On the one hand, this is a way to successfully achieve a lot by sticking to these deadlines. On the other, the feeling of constantly working on something else rather than the main project at hand can be a little frustrating.

However, if these things can be linked (as they somehow seem to be) it makes everything fall into place a lot easier.

A brief set in conjunction with the Modern 2 gallery proposed a contemporary response to their current exhibition of works by SJ Peploe. The work was to be something in "book" format (or using bookbinding/bookmaking techniques/ideas).

I love the contrast of working on something so small, delicate and precise in comparison to my other work, paintings and installations, which seem quite different in their working but the approach so similar.

Working from the brief and a number of visits to the exhibition, I came up with a response which took into account the exhibition space as a whole and how the artist´s works become part of it. Using shape and colour to form a three-part response, these elements were brought together in an almost architectural way.

I also made a box/case for placing them in:

If the work gets selected, it will be in an exhibition in the Keiller Library in the Modern 2 Gallery.

Friday 15 February 2013

Colour change

The last two weeks have been spent, among other many things, preparing to spend two days in a booked project space. The idea is to capitalise on a larger space to explore installation and different scale work.

It is like a large drawing where space and the creation of it become important. Scale changes not just the perception and impact but the simple stuff such as logistics of creating lines/block colour etc. Time constraints among other things make the process an evolutionary thing. Although originally it was intended to be a more considered work in terms of planning and execution, that altered as the short project was realised.

Colour, always an important factor was consciously decided upon. From previous colour "collection" exercises, the colours were chosen. It is a different effect but still striking in its own way.

There is plenty to reflect upon and learn for the next similar intervention.