'Tourist Trap', a Stamp-Cell I did in 2012, is in the Summer Salon fundraiser exhibition in the wonderful Lubimirov/Angus-Hughes gallery, Hackney, London at the minute. There's lots of great work there by dozens of brilliant artists, drop in over the weekend if you're around that neck of the woods. They're open Friday to Sunday 12-6pm.
Here's a couple of videos of techniques, must make a few more, like one of sawing up cigarette lighters, I think that one would defo go viral..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyIrVJ0aKtc&t=42s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83m7s3zwD2U
They had to fit in a standard-sized letterbox, the one on the gallery door, packaging included, so I picked two that I did on 0.5cm MDF. They're from the Pearce Street years when I was working as a cycle courier, and the lower half of 'Take Time..' has a bit of Cyclo-Geography, a map of the last few pick-ups + drop-offs I did that day (in yellow).
I was in the Pearce Street studio in the early Noughties and left these behind with some other things I had no room for. Then I retrieved them last year. I added some details very recently so that's why the date is '04-'17. The exhibition is on this weekend, 13-14 May, opening is Friday evening (12th), here is the link to the Lubimirov/ Angus-Hughes gallery in Hackney: http://www.lubomirov-angus-hughes.com/Antennae The theme of this year's show is 'Testing' and artists were encouraged to try new techniques, different to what they'd usually do. I've been picking up solar garden lights in cheapo shops recently, not sure what I'd do with them, but I could see they had potential. Tidying up last week in the studio I found this limestone block that I'd started carving into years ago. The head is a load of congealed paint and silicone from plastic jars, stacked on top of eachother, with two latex condoms over them because the silicone got tacky when I tried cleaning it with white spirits.
The lights come on when it gets dark enough, like at twilight, lighting up two slide images of a pine forest and a barbed-wire-walled yard. These are backed with phosphorescent pigment which continues to glow after the lights either conk out or are switched off, type of thing.. This 3rd photo is when he's on the windowsill inside the gallery there on Wednesday charging up for the opening on Thursday the 4th. The two bars that look like flourescent lights in this photo are spoke reflectors reflecting the camera flash. Ivy grows through the eaves of the garage where I work , it was to get rid of the ivy that I started tidying stuff. I usually only tidy about a quarter of it at a time, and it takes around a day and a half.
..so I was cycling by those cottages in Irishtown that look out to Dublin Port and I spotted this leaning against a wall. I brought it home, attached it to the wall in the Garage and it now hold all my cans of spraypaint, 26 to be exact. One for every letter of the alphabet. Which reminds me, there are many different artists who connect colours with sounds, numbers and letters. I looked it up on Wiki there and found this quote from the writer Vladimir Nabokov, too long to paste here so this is the end of it, and a link to the page:
'Finally, among the reds, b has the tone called burnt sienna by painters, m is a fold of pink flannel, and today I have at last perfectly matched v with 'Rose Quartz' in Maerz and Paul's Dictionary of Color. The word for rainbow, a primary, but decidedly muddy, rainbow, is in my private language the hardly pronounceable: kzspygv' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_synesthesia I started a new blog of drawings, have a look at it if you feel like seeing what I see:
https://joclock1.wixsite.com/drawings One of the things about collecting loads of interesting bits and pieces that I fully intend using sometime to make paintings that take me years to finish is that I need somewhere to put all the bits, and also all the paintings while I'm working on them. Here's how I'm storing a lot of my works-in-progress. I used to just pile them on top of eachother with maybe some cardboard between them but this way is better because I can pull one out from the bottom easily.
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