On show at LMU, a selection of my work from the year so far, including screenprints and an Argos-style catalogue (with linocut cover) based on the Daily Quirks series. The catalogue showed a selection of goods essential to everyday living, but which can also be used - and adorned - in a variety of ways.
Kline & the Abst Exps, Royal Academy /
Sunday morning sketching Kline & the Ab Exps at the Royal Academy.
Kline's 'Zinc door', 1961
The Store: catalogues and order forms /
I was invited to take part in The Store project, an assignment that the full-time students will be assessed on (I'm assuming that as a part-timer I will do and be marked on this or a similar project next year). The project is based on Claes Oldenburg's The Store, 1961, where he created an immersive installation of an American shop, filled with gaudily coloured objects that seem to represent everyday products. The students were to respond by creating their own version of a store, which would become LMU's Christmas show, 'The Christmas Cracker'.
I developed point-of-sale items and used the 'It's over (doodle 4)' screenprint and linocuts as the covers of two product catalogues, based on those of Argos. The contents are images taken from my Daily Quirk series, where I pose with everyday objects to give them another identity. I also made order forms with a mini pen, which Argos used to provide its customers when it first opened.
In context, I wanted to evoke Oldenburg's sense of fun, while offering consumers an element of interactivity other than simply buying a product. For the covers, I used an image of balloons with a sharp object to reflect the theory that consumerism's bubble is about to burst.
First crit /
Feedback for It's Over (doodle 4): Are they balloons, bums or boobs?
Left to right: Homage to Motherwell, Blue flower, Ice cream, blue red, The Store Catalogue (Daily Quirks), It's over (doodle 4), 2016
Relief prints /
Relief linocuts and screenprints - first printmaking projects at LMU, 2016.
'Ice cream, red blue', 2016
'Doodle 4', 2016
'Blue flower', 2016
First collagraph, 'Untitled' /
First print from my first collagraph plate, which was made using torn strips of masking tape on polycarbonate.
Fine art foundation first class, Morley College /
First class began by ‘getting to know the college’ through quick graphite sketches, using a cardboard 'frame' to create abstracts of everyday scenes.
1 'View from corridor, outside C30, towards London Eye'
2 'Fire Door Keep Shut'
3 'Wall'
4 'View from corridor, outside C30
Fine art foundation - Morley College /
Feeling nervous and excited, I started Morley College’s Art Foundation in September 2015, attending classes two days a week, and will finish in July 2016. Accredited by the University of the Arts London, it covers subjects such as drawing, painting, printmaking, contextual studies, sculpture, photography, film and digital studies.
The first part of the course will be spent exploring techniques, approaches, materials, media and methods across a range of different areas, with an emphasis on building skills in ideas development through project work.
Who knows where it'll take me.
