two more drawings

two folds in an A1 piece of paper


three folds in an A1 piece of paper

I am planning a series of sculptures that are based on folded pieces of paper and at the moment in the genesis stage of development. I will be drawing from source and collecting each drawing and folded paper.

I would like the finished sculptures to be hinged with the capacity for them to fold in and out, preferably oxidised metal so that they make a creaking sound but I will have to make do with card and eventually, wood.

3 more Art Everywhere in Blackburn

I've managed to photograph one Art Everywhere poster in The Mall, Blackburn. I love how it plays with the Health Lottery advertising though


These two were caught at the train station in Blackburn, I have currently missed the David Hockney one though. I was quite miffed with that.

new foldings, new drawings

drawing project

I have started the AA2A placement at Blackburn College University Centre and been shown around the three art sites. It's quite extensive really. I get to use all amenities and get to do work. I haven't been able to get started proper yet because of lack of studio space.

So, I have drawing again and got influenced by how bus tickets and paper in general get folded and thrown away so I began to record the randomness of such foldings, very anti-origami.

These drawings were all done in quick succesion from a few examples that I collected in the previous week.

films that made a difference

Part three in an ongoing series:

1;
The Plague Dogs : Martin Rosen
2;
Silence of The Lambs : Jonathan Demme
3;
Metropolis : Fritz Lang
4;
Donnie Darko : Richard Kelly
5;
The Deadly Spawn : Douglas McKeown
6;
Kill Bill 1&2 : Quentin Tarantino
7;
Heavy Metal:The Decline of the Western Civilization : Penelope Spheeris
8;
No Quarter, Unledded : Aubrey Powell
9:
The House of a 1,000 Corpses : Rob Zombie
10;
Fantasia : Walt Disney
11;
Driller Killer : Abel Ferrara
12;
Blow Up : Michelangelo Antonioni
13;
A Hard Days Night : Richard Lester
14;
One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest : Miloš Forman
15;
Psycho : Alfred Hitchcock
16
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre : Tobe Hooper
17;
A Clockwork Orange : Stanley Kubrick
18;
P.opular S.ky : Ryan Trecartin
19;
Nosferatu
20;
War of The Worlds : Byron Haskin
21;
Trainspotting : Danny Boyle
22:
Black Hawk Down : Ridley Scott
23;
Animal Kingdom : David Michôd
24;
Chelsea Girls : Andy Warhol
25;
Spirited Away : Hayao Miyazaki
26;
Star Wars : George Lucas
27;
28 Days Later : Danny Boyle
28;
Basket Case : Frank Henenlotter
29;
Alien : Ridley Scott
30;
Battle Royale : Kinji Fukasaku
31;
Bronson : Nicolas Winding Refn
32;
Lady Vengence : Park Chan-wook
33;
Akira : Katsuhiro Otomo
34;
The Wicker Man : Robin Hardy
35;
Scanners : David Cronenburg
36;
Escape From New York : John Carpenter
37;
The Season of The Witch : Tommy Lee Wallace
36;
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
37;
The Evil Dead : Sam Raimi
38;
Natural Born Killers
39;
The Fly : David Cronenberg
40;
Ponyo : Hayao Miyazaki
41;
Tron : Steven Lisberger
42;
Freaks : Tod Browning
44;
The Last Temptation of Christ : Martin Scorsese
45;
Monster : Patty Jenkins
46;
Howl's Moving Castle : Hayao Miyazaki
47;
200 Motels : Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa, Charles Swenson
48;
Animal Farm : Halas and Batchelor
49;
Fear and Lothing in Las Vegas : Terry Gilliam
50;
Life of Brian : Terry Gilliam

Lest we forget:
Police Academy
Bad Lieutenant
Apocalypse Now
...If
Britannia Hospital
Watership Down
Tootsie
Awakenings
Bonnie and Clyde
Reservoir Dogs
Pulp Fiction
Frankenstein
Cabaret
Batman
The Shining
Daywatch
Nightwatch
Ring O
Ju-On
Mother India
The Fog
The Thing
The Day The Earth Stood Still
Quartermass and The Pit
Daleks – Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D
The Hurt Locker
Walks with Bashir
A Scanner Darkly
Rabid
Persepolis
Spartacus
Rob Roy
Greyfrier's Bobby
Oliver Twist
Ben Hur
Carry on Screaming

Matt Berry

As an actor regularly seen on Garth Marenghi and on the IT Crowd, I thought this would be slightly abstract and surreal, the surreal is there and so is the abstract but is refreshingly beautiful.

I have listening to his album, Kill the Wolf lately and it is surprisingly infused with Hammer Horror aesthetics and is quite lovely. The LP is out on Acid Jazz and I may have to go out and find a vinyl copy.

Gather Up is spooky, Fallen Angel is seventies tinged folk and Village Dance is very soundtrack in style. I quite like the ethereal quality of the whole package and is highly recommended.

I really like the album..Withchazel in which he plays all his instruments and was free when it came out on the internet in 2011.

Liz West

A few photographs indicating Liz West's solo exhibition at 4 Piccadilly Place, Mcr before I went up to see the Rogue Open Studios. Her work is basically based on light and the value that colour and light has on our environment. I have seen her work previously at Blankspace and at the Cornerhouse. She was at the Open Studios were I had the chance to say hi.

Visit to Rogue Studios

It was the Rogue Studios 'Open Studio 2013' weekender last week and I paid a visit on the opening night. My colleague Jenny Steele from Blackburn University's BA Fine Art team has a studio here and I wanted to visit her and to see her work. Also, I know a few artists such as Magnus Quaife, Liz West, David Griffiths, Helen Collett and Hilary Jack amongst others. It is an extensive studio complex around the back of Piccadilly Train Station and is located within a disused mill.

I have been here on several occaisions but only to private viewings at Malgras/Naudet which is run by Quaife and Collett. There are so many artists in these studios that you can shake a stick at. So many good works that I see have melded within one experience. A few artists/collectives have interested me such as OWL Projects and their natural materials with electronica and the colourful prints of Rob Bailey, Mike Chavez-Dawson's studio, seeing other people's studios such as Rob Dunne, Daniel Fogarty and Taneesha Ahmed.

I have tried to photograph some work and had a few stifled conversations with particular studio dwellers but had to leave after a couple of hours due to train times etc. They only have these open studios once a year and will await the next one.

words that made a difference

The same concept as music that makes a difference..and ever-evolving list

1;
Bill Drummond : 45
2;
Aesop : Aesops Fables
3;
Stephen King : It
4;
Baudrillard : The System of Objects
5;
John Berger : Ways of Seeing
6;
Benjamin Hoff : The Tao of Pooh
7;
John Fowles : The Collector
8;
McLuhan/Fiore : The Medium is the Message
9;
George Orwell : 1984
10;
George Orwell : Down and Out in Paris and London
11;
JRR Tolkein : The Lord of the Rings
12;
Alan Moore : The Watchmen
13;
Deyan Sudjic : The Language of Things
14;
Andy Warhol : a, A Novel
15;
Charles Dickins : Oliver Twist
16;
Richard Adams : Watership Down
17;
Susan Sontag : on Photography
18;
Baltasar Gracian : The Pocket Oracle
19;
Homer : the Odyssey
20;
William Burroughs : Naked Lunch
21;
Jack Kerouac : On The Road
22;
Haper Lee : To Kill a Mockingbird
23;
Mark Haddon : The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
24;
Pee Wee Gaskins : Final Truth
25;
collected : The Bible
26;
Oxford English Dictionary and Thesaurus
27;
William Shakespear : Romeo and Juliet
28;
Irvine Welsh : Trainspotting
29;
J D Salinger : Catcher in the Rye
30;
Hunter S Thompson : Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
31;
Ian Burgess : A Clockwork Orange
32;
Marjane Satrapi : Persepolis
33;
Marc Auge : Non-Places
34;
Lord Russell of Liverpool : The Scourge of the Swastika
35;
Paulo Coelho : The Alchemist
36;
Hermann Hesse : Siddhartha
37;
Tove Jansson : Comet in Moominland
38;
Mark Twain : The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
39;
Bram Stoker : Dracula
40;
Yevgeny Zamyatin : We
41;
Alan Fletcher : Picturing and Poeting
42;
Simon Goddard : The Songs That Saved My Life
43;
Alexander Solzhenitsyn : One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
44;
Mary Shelley : Frankenstein
45;
Ayn Rand : Atlas Shrugged
46;
Joseph Heller : Catch - 42
47;
Kurt Vonnegut : The Breakfast of Champions
48;
Douglas Adams : The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
49;
Oscar Wilde : The Picture of Dorian Gray
50;
Vātsyāyana : The Karma Sutra

Lest we forget

Philip K. Dick : The Man in the High Castle
John Steinbeck : of Mice and Men
Enid Blyton : Brer Rabbit
James Joyce : Ulysses
Aldous Huxley : Brave New World
William Golding : Lord of the Flies
Sheryl Garrett : Adventures in Wonderland
Sanyika Shakur : Monster:The Autobiography of a Gang Member
Brett Easton Ellis : American Psycho
Lewis Carroll : Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through The Looking Glass
Dominique Laporte : The History of Shit
Eric Carle : The Hungry Caterpiller
Albert Camus : The Stranger
Truman Capote : In Cold Blood
Franz Kafka : Metamorphosis and Other Stories
Susie Hodge : Why Your 5 Year Old Could Not Have Done That

3 birds : 1 day

Marlsboro House, Manchester


Stevenson Square, Manchester


Brazonnose Street, Manchester

music that made a difference

This is one of a series of what has inspired then and now concentrating on, at this time, music that has saved my life. Omissions are due to memory loss..

1;
Butthole Surfers : Pioughd
2;
Dead Kennedys : Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
3;
The Cure : All Mixed Up
4:
The Orb : Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld
5;
Pink Floyd : Dark Side of the Moon
6;
Pop Will Eat Itself : 16 Different Flavours of Hell
7;
Damned : Damned Damned Damned
8;
The Velvet Underground: The Velvet Underground with Nico
9;
Radiohead : Kid A
10;
Napalm Death : From Enslavement to Obliteration
11;
Slayer : South of Heaven
12;
The Beastie Boys : Ill communication
13;
Led Zepplin : III
14;
David Bowie : Heroes
15;
Frank Zappa : Sheik Ya Bouti
16;
Talking Heads : Stop Making Sense
17;
ESG : A South Bronx Story
18;
Too Many DJs : On Radio Soulwax Vol:II
19;
Stereolab : Mars Audiac Quintet
20;
The Smiths : The World Won't Listen
21;
Spiritualized : Songs in A and E
22;
Metallica : ...And Justice For All
23;
Prince : Purple Rain
24;
Arthur Russell : Keep The Lights On
25;
Throbbing Gristle : TG 4
26;
Mekons : Retreat From Memphis
27;
The Wedding Present : Ukranians Peel Sessions
28;
New Order : Power, Corruption and Lies
29;
Beethoven : Number 6 Pastoral Suite
30;
The Beatles : Revolver
31;
Bob Dylan : The Freewheelin'
32;
Mogwai : Rock Action
33;
Yummy Fur : Sexy World
32;
Kraftwerk : Computer World
33;
LCD Soundsystem : Sound of Silver
34;
Daft Punk : Random Access Memories
35;
Wavves : Afraid of Heights
36;
Nick Drake : Pink Moon
37;
Various : The Wigan Casino Story
38;
Saint Etienne : Fox Base Alpha
39;
Joy Division : Closer
40;
Michael Jackson : Bad
41;
Portishead : Dummy
42;
T-Rex : The Slider
43;
Belle and Sebastian : The Boy with the Arab Strap
44;
Primal Scream : Screamadelica
45;
The Stone Roses : The Stone Roses
46;
Cornershop : When I Was Born for the Seventh Time
47;
OST : Natural Born Killers
48;
Marilyn Manson : Smell Like Children
49;
Teenage Fanclub : Bandwagonesque
50;
Sigue Sigue Sputnik : Dress For Excess

Lest We Forget..

Sonic Youth : Confusion Is Sex
Belly : Star
Motley Crue : Too Fast For Love
Iron Maiden : Live at Last
Sex Pistols : Never Mind The Bollocks
Happy Mondays : Pills, Thrills and Bellyaches
New Order : Technique
The New York Dolls : New York Dolls
Ice T : Home Invasion
Neu! : Neu!
The Go! Team : Thunder, Lightning, Strike
The XX : The XX
Augustus Pablo : Original Rockers
De La Soul : Three Feet and Rising
Various : Kitsune Three
Chad Valley : Equatorial Ultravox
James Blake : James Blake
Ministry : Kebadoh
Ride : Nowhere EP
Guns N' Roses : Appetite For Destruction
Saxon : Power and the Glory
The Doors : Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Gaye Bykers on Acid : Drill Your Own Hole
Black Sabbath : Black Sabbath
Interpol : Antics
Beck : Odelay
Health : Disco 2
Julian Cope : Floored Genius
Soft Cell : Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
OST : Pulp Fiction
Verve : A Storm In Heaven
Boards of Canada : Music Has The Rights To Children
Chrome Hoof : Pre Emptive False Rapture
Madonna : Madonna
Chic : C'est Chic
Love : Forever Changes
Bo Diddley : Bo Diddley
Jesus and Mary Chain : Darklands
Nirvana : Bleach
Mississippi John Hurt : Bootleg
The Rolling Stones : Exile on Main Street
Soundgarden : Louder than Love
The Fall : Dragnet
OST : Saturday Night Fever
PiL : Metal Box
The Aphex Twin : Druqks
Holy Fuck : LP
Hawkwind : Masters of the Universe
Blondie : Parallel Lines
Blur : Modern Life is Rubbish
Suicide : Suicide
The Jimi Hendrix Experience : Band of Gypsys
James Brown : Black Ceaser OST
The Gaslamp Killer : Lake of Fire EP
Flight of The Conchords : Flight of The Conchords

A Collection of Wandering Photographs