NEW BLOG

Simulacrum: An Artist's Residency

This new blog follows my current activity in printmaking while on artist's residency at the University of Suffolk

New page, Teaching, has been added with examples of personal artwork in painting, drawing and mixed media. Also examples of my teaching sketchbooks, student artwork and student sketchbooks.

I was invited to contribute to this exhibition themed around the use of words within images.

Exhibition of an eclectic mix of my work.  my second one man show.

Print, collage and drawing.

From the Asylum Studios Artists Residency, this is the largest graphite drawing I have ever done

OUT OF THE ORDINARY

This is  the title of my project and artists residency at Asylum Studios running from 14 May for two weeks.

There will be an exhibition and artists residency opening, as the summation of the eleven year project.  The artwork presented will include a wide selection of the accumulated completed works from the ongoing period of the  project and also works progressing during the residency.  It brings together art making with the everyday.  The work on show will be drawings, printmaking, assemblages, installations and maybe some painting.  All of the work on show relates to appropriation and transformation as key aspects and art concepts that inform the work, and form a bridge between the real and representation. The subject matter and content of the work addresses notions about our changing connection to the world.  The work highlights the mundane, the ubiquitous and the overlooked, with the intention of reassessing and restating the obvious and the everyday in curious, quirky and sometimes poignant ways.

Openings:

Saturday 19 May 11am to 4pm. Interim opening with completed work and some work in progress

Wednesday 23 May 5pm to 8pm. Concluding opening with all completed work on show.

I continue to work on my Semulacrum project, since completing my artists residency at the University of Suffolk in June 2017.  I am working further ideas related to those while on residency and also developing other printmaking projects such as Reportage, which I started while on residency.

Simulacrum Exhibition

6 march - 25 March

The Waterfront Gallery, Ipswich.  

Open M-F 9.00am to 5.00pm, Sat 10.00am to 3.00pm

One man show exhibiting printmaking work from my artist's residency at the Univsersity of Suffolk.

Find it here:  University of Suffolk, Waterfront Building, 19 Neptune Quay, Ipswich IP4 1QJ

Artist's Residency at the University of Suffolk

I have been working in the print room at the University of Suffolk developing my work and realising ideas that have accumulated for printmaking.  The ideas relate to theories about the deluge of images that are the condition of our technological age, notions about 'the Copy' and how that might be considered in different ways.

I have started writing a blog on AN (Artists Newsletter, www.a-n.co.uk) about the development, the ideas and the interactions with others during the residency. 

Here is the link: Simulacrum an artists residency

This year I have been showing work in Ipswich and Colchester open shows at The Foyer Space at Suffolk University, and at the Minories in Colchester, and my work was also selected for the birthday exhibition for The Pop My Mind project.

Currently and until 7 October at The Ipswich Art School Gallery in the Open Call exhibition.

I also have work in The Minories Gallery shop currently.

Exhibition of new work.

This is the first public showing of my recent painting, in fact painting as you never have perhaps quite seen it before. The exhibition includes a variety of artwork from 10 artists of the Creative Freelance group.  Discarded made Beautiful is the theme we all considered and all have responded to in very individual ways.

The Frame Workshop & Gallery, Ipswich, Suffolk. Open from Friday 3rd June to Saturday 25 June 2016.

Exhibition: SELECT at the Sentinel Gallery, Wivenhoe

My collage work is on show in the SELECT open exhibition. Starts 5 March and continues to 28 March.

I have been developing a new course to run from January 2016.

Creative Sketchbooking.

The course explore layout, formating and presentation that will enhance the impact of the sketchbook for inspirartion and provide introduce a way of working that will help students explore, generate and develop ideas and concepts towards future new work.

Exhibition:  Gatherings

at The Freudian Sheep Contemporary Art Gallery

I have several pieces of work in this group show from Sat 11 Oct to Fri 31 Oct.

Details: Open Wed 10 - 2, Thurs 10 - 4, Fri 10 - 2, Sat 11 - 6, Preview Sat 11Oct 3 - 7pm.

Location: 104 St. Helens Street, Ipswich, Suffolk, IP4 2LB

Exhibition: Secrets

This exhibition by the PostMasters artists group presents a wide variety of work at The Minories Art Gallery, Colchester, Essex.  The exhibition starts 4 October 2014 and the exhibition continues until 15th November 2014. Contact the gallery for opening times.

The project explores interpretations of the theme eight of our members.

Preview 6pm to 9pm 3rd October 2014

Current work in progress

Currently during May to August I am working on a project called Secrets with my Post MA group.  AN exhibition of the project work is planned for later this year.

Exhibition of Recent Work

Recent work will go on show soon in a pop-up shop exhibition in Chelmsford.  The exhibition will include work by the AA2A artists on the residency scheme at Chelmsford College, which I run, along with work by some of the other college staff.  It will be an eclectic mix of work viewed from outside, exploring the nature of viewing artworks out of the white cube situation of most exhitions.

Link: www.facebook.com/creativecolonychelmsford

Current activity 

A new Section has been added to the Portfolio section RECENT WORK with samples of current projects that I am working on, and other ARCHIVE PROJECT sections are in the of being completed.

Currently I am working on further 'Photocuts' appropriating family photographs, other found photographs, found printed matter including packaging and books, and also I am working on a series of printmaking and installation ideas for future development.

I continue to engage in Post MA research which is also logged as I develop work in the projects.  The projects take the central themes and concepts in different directions.  But always questioning the nature of objects, images and experiences, and the unreliability or inconsistency of images and meaning; and how we might or might not expect to find things.

The progress of these projects are documented on my A-N Artists Talking Blog:

Un-fictions Snapshots etc