new painting preliminary stage

Cross-course critique

It's the cross course crit tomorrow and I havent done the [poster] that was requested on Monday. Well I haven't been there since Monday, though. I need to organise my trips to the heart/blood nurses and my specialists alot better.

I have the work that needs to be brought in like my three hard-edged collages, paintings and sketchbooks. My half-finished sculpture is at the studio and so is my mother and boy collage/painting and the more recent sketchbook.

I know what I am doing creative speaking but I'm a little erratic in the studying sense but I am reading a book by Nauman, read a book on J. Cornell and re-reading a chapter by S. Sontag about the Metamorphasis of Vision.

The second assignment (2000 words) has been set and I have chosen a question on the social life of an object. The object that I have chosen maybe a photograph bought from a junk-shop or a Ladybird book that I have found in a charity shop that is well used and has been through many little hands. Frequent readers may find correlations with this and with my last essay on Images and Things.

exhibitions 22-02-10

I'm quite happy with how this exhibition has turned out. It took an unbelievably long time to set up just my bit but hey...that's all in the details.

New painting 6x6

This is a new painting that I have finished. This is in the style of Gillian Wise and I have painted a few more larger compositions that are alot more [finished] than this one. There are going to be more of these using alternate paper/canvas etc...

Manchester day trip and others

I decided to have a run out to Manchester today with a few pals and took them to the Manchester Museum and a wander through China-Town and the Northern Quarter. It was a bit fresh but we had fun times. I managed to buy a book made out of processed elephant's dung. It's just a notebook sized book but I'll find some use for it...maybe printing or painting experiments.

The Images and Things exhibition is coming up next week so I'll need to get into Uni early to prepare my display box and print out the images that I am using. There is a seperate [but a tenuous link] exhibition dedicated to the a timeline of the 1980's that incorporates photographs that are either found, personal or cultural. So, I'll need to find some relevant images.

street decollage 2

I found these on the billboard at Manchester Town Hall.

three

Little off-the-cuff experimental collage.