Using a combination of the round-the-clock format (each person contributes for a set period of time – in our case, minutes!) on a series of projects and using prompts from Eno/Schmidt’s Oblique Strategies, we ended up with an unusual collection of pieces. What was useful about this experiment was it forced you to start without [...]
My Work
Actionettes as Lichtenstein ladies – posters painted for the show
Some posters we painted from drawings I’d done based on the ladies… The posters were created using the genius Rastorbator programme (Free!) that creates multi-sheet posters from your artwork and makes them all Lichtenstein-dotty in the process. You can alter the number of sheets and the density of the dots – very useful! Photos from [...]
RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make
RULE SIX: Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail, there’s only make
Tracking images back to the source – with unexpected results
Explore the origins of images used online – fun for the curious, as well as a useful tool
plaster and rubber casts of garlic bulbs
Plaster casts of garlic bulb and cloves. Also cast them in (hot) rubber which made for weird aromas as the Vinamold is already vanilla- or almond-scented and the garlic started to cook with the heat!. Made a two-part sand mould for casting related bulb forms into bronze but it exploded at the foundry. :(
Phone sketchbook: finger or stylus?
These are done using Sketchbook Mobile Android app which is pretty impressive, but without a decent stylus, still not as good as a paper and pen somehow…
Sculpture: 2D to 3D and back again
Or, any excuse to get the glue gun & spraypaints out :). Was interested in taking something flat, constructing with it, and reverting it back to flat again. Very much process based. (I am sensing a theme here).
Casting fingers in alginate & plaster
Experiments in alginate, plaster & wire. The sensation of first revealing, and then breaking, fingers that were so obviously mine was unnerving.
Electric Sheep Magazine mentioned in New Statesman article
“For the offbeat stuff you have to go to sites such as electricsheepmagazine.co.uk. Run by a print magazine, Electric Sheep, it reviews fringe and art-house films that seldom get space in the broadsheet newspapers. The writing is confident and well-informed and the scope encompasses everywhere from Spain to South Korea. I was excited to read about [...]