staying with the theme of home and spending time in Barcelona where on the 3rd floor you look out on the city to ‘little boxes’ everywhere – the boxes that we live in Seeing Rebecca Horn’s sculpture on the beach. Towering steel boxes teetering on each other reminded me of the homes in this city. […]
we met as a group with the intention of putting a funding proposal in for Feast I have been liasing with Pop Up Penzance and had temporarily pencilled in a date for two weeks to use the space to collaborate and then exhibit we met and realised we had left little time to prepare the […]
I spent ages covering the object in wallpaper and was really pleased with the finish – I was happy with the finish – it appeared domestic because it was covered in wallpaper yet odd as it wasn’t a functional piece of furniture. The piece is named ‘Shul’ I was surprised to find that I was […]
Lucy and I discussed my charcoal drawings and talked about perhaps mixing up the drawing by use of animation – look at William Kentridge – we discussed rather than sticking on pictures of houses, use the videos of houses and woods to project into or through the drawings. Dirt is still part of the work […]
travel to The Exchange Gallery to help set up for show two artists graduates from Falmouth were brought in to help set up – we didn’t quite realise that we would be surplus to needs!! They didn’t want us to help set up – we helped set up the display cabinet with some broken objects and […]
I am still working with the aesthetic of ‘houses’ and ‘homes’ and have looked at various types of UK houses. With regards to my research proposal I have also been exploring strands of thought and ways that the research will assist my studio practice
The Tears of Things – an exhibition by Café Morte This was the first of a growing collection of broken objects which were gathered to exhibit at Newlyn Art Gallery. As part of The Exchange Christmas Makers Market, Café Morte were invited to create an exhibition alongside the makers. The exhibition took place of the […]
Thinking about what format my research portfolio will take and what it is that I will research. I have already started to go down many routes in my reading and artists research and need to narrow in or fine tune my thinking. Have been thinking about what my work is about and thinking about how […]
As part of a collective we met and decided to apply for a residency opportunity at Newlyn Gallery. Three of us got together and discussed our works and how we could possibly work together. We invited a few other artists to join us, who we felt would create a cohesive environment of exploration and experimentation. […]
I continued to print some of the cutlery but got bored so explored a bit of monoprinting – making plates for the cutlery rather than making an etching. thinking about composition and what to put on the plate and used white spirit and string and marks Tom reminded me of the burning of the spagetti […]