Wednesday, 21 April 2010

I was in love with a star

Name: John Hyatt

Occupation: Artist Painter/ Photographic manipulation
'Breaking frames, collapsing scales and crossing boundaries'



Sighting of UFO

Stalked the Nasa site

Had a dream he was in love with a star



Completely bonkers....



'Chaos isn't random, Chaos is just complicated'

Saturday, 10 April 2010

Woofdogbark

'the nice scuplture man that gave me aload of free flooring material'

Wall


Saturday, 3 April 2010

Friday, 2 April 2010

Thursday, 1 April 2010

Tuesday, 23 March 2010

Matthew Bournes Swan Lake

Matthew Bourne's 'Swan Lake'
Bradford Alhambra, March, 2010.

A compelling avant garde representation of the classic ballet swan lake. This beautiful production has clearer made Bourne for what he is. The 'damien hirst' of the dance world. Placing contemporary dance of this prestige on the map.

Monday, 15 March 2010

Ron Nudeck i mean Mueck


'Spooning Couple'
The hyperrealistic sculpture is potentially one of the most disturbing things ive seen in a while. The sheer scale of the piece reinforces this perhaps because it is so small yet looks real.
The attention to detail and the impecible technical ability is outstanding and somewhat needs to be this way in order for the piece to work.
The disturbing realism of the piece is something i can only describe as the uncanny. Mueck appears to be the cultivator of the notion of the uncanny here as the scuplture are life like just not life-size.

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Room Mode


Three immersive installations that mark Dean Clough's first engagement with 'Sound Art'. Angie Atmadjaja, Theo Burt and Peter Worth present interactions between space, sound and light in isolated spaces around Dean Clough. Multi-channel sound, video, light tubes and computers all play their part in three very different explorations of formal structures and perceptual phenomena. Supported by Arts Council England.


Angie Atmadjaja: Intrinsic (2008): Sound-responsive light tubes reacting to standing waves made by single loudspeaker. Site-specific, using room acoustics.Theo Burt: Four (2008): Four light and sound emitting panels. Generated patterns of synchronised colour and noise.


Peter Worth: Material (2009): Two-channel synthesised audio and diffused projection. Durations of static timbre with solid colours.Three immersive installations that mark Dean Clough's first engagement with 'Sound Art'. Angie Atmadjaja, Theo Burt and Peter Worth present interactions between space, sound and light in isolated spaces around Dean Clough. Multi-channel sound, video, light tubes and computers all play their part in three very different explorations of formal structures and perceptual phenomena. Supported by Arts Council England.


Angie Atmadjaja: Intrinsic (2008): Sound-responsive light tubes reacting to standing waves made by single loudspeaker. Site-specific, using room acoustics.


Theo Burt: Four (2008): Four light and sound emitting panels. Generated patterns of synchronised colour and noise.Peter Worth: Material (2009): Two-channel synthesised audio and diffused projection. Durations of static timbre with solid colours.

Saturday, 6 March 2010

Tuesday, 2 March 2010

Ways Of Seeing

'Ways of Seeing' John Berger

Saturday, 27 February 2010

Friday, 26 February 2010

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

compulsive beauty

'Compulsive beauty, hals forster'

Car Park


Tuesday, 23 February 2010

A single man

I was really surprised to hear that Tom Ford was directing and funding a film. Having the potential to be cliched the film had been poorly reviewed by some critics. However, still wanting to see it.

The film was surprisingly beautiful. The storyline was captivating and approachable a middle aged professor is left heartbroken after his long term partner dies in a car accident. The professor is denied access to the funeral so really all he is left is with his memories and his day to day life. The professor carries on through his life with an intention to end it. Plotting his own suicide that ultimately doesnt happen. Meeting a boy from his english class, the boy is curious about the professor. whether this is sexual or not is only to be assumed as there is a definitite undetone of homosexuality throughout the film. The professor gives in to the students interests and they go for a drink which later turns into a moment of running and swimming in the sea naked. The student is invited back to the professors house where his plot to kill himself has dissolved with his realisation that moments such as those bring clarity to his life and brings him back to reality. which ironically he has a heart attack and dies.

The film is cinematically filmed really beautiful, using panaromic movement. The professors moments of clarity are often expressed by an emphasis of the colours.
There is a continous music score which beautiful leaves the viewer in a state of wonderment at the sheer beauty of the pieces with respect to the films narrative.

Monday, 22 February 2010

Art Depression

Yes, i have clinically confirmed to myself that i have art depression. I have no desire to do any work. I hate art. I hate the pretence. Compulsive bullshitting.

I hate art and it probably doesnt even realise i hate it.

Friday, 19 February 2010

The Unilever Series: Miroslaw Balka


Fear.
comfort.
uncertainty.
knowing.
collective memories.
darkness.
alone.
velvet.
Luxurious?

Monday, 15 February 2010

Streets Of London and then some art.

Deciding to 'walk' home after a night out. Turned into a getting lost in london. Roaming like a homeless person, in the wet and cold with the only sense of normality that we were to meet at the Tate Modern by 11 am.

Not feeling that in love with art from my hungover havent slept state. I walk into a red room installation and in the space is an old couple. I over hear the woman intellectualising the piece saying or arguing with herself as a silent husbands on. ' i wonder is it to do with the domesticity of the home... no the interal organs or the home' 'the hub of the home' she insists. I wanted to laugh at the utter rubbish she was speaking but in hindsight i did agree with her. She was only vocalising what we all are accustomed to doing with art. Searching for the meaning.

I walked always thinking and feeling 'what a load of bullshit'.

London Shaboom

Richard Wilson, Saatchi Gallery

The perspective of this installation is completely illusive. Visually beautiful and simple with clarity. The installation plays with our perception and it took me a while to realise that the room had no depth by the bridge but being all one level and only the reflected ceiling mirroring back.

Thursday, 11 February 2010

Ribbons in trees

Tuesday, 9 February 2010

Ideas for kites


Im quite obsessed with the idea that my flying thingy will involve some kind of inflatible that pops out of a perspex box.

Sunday, 7 February 2010

Saturday, 6 February 2010

Elinar Ostrom on institutions

'institutions are defined by a set of working rules that are used to determine who is eligable to make decisions'

Friday, 5 February 2010

odd spaces

concrete areas and fenced spaces?
interest but have no real purpose

Thursday, 4 February 2010

Religiously David

Religious connations to david.
David and goliath?

Creating an identity by giving 'DAVID' a life span.

inter-linking the religious connation with the idea of ribbons in trees. almost like lost memories or things that have been left behind.

Tuesday, 2 February 2010

David?


Random number?
Random Word?
Random?

Tuesday, 26 January 2010

Sri Lanka


SRI LANKA
memorials of the dead- pictures on the walls, almost like advertisments.
in the trees- ribbons

Monday, 25 January 2010

Saturday, 23 January 2010

Study at Victoria Station


Waiting for the train to leave at the platform noticed that the people stood for the tram looked static and linear.

Monday, 18 January 2010

The Link Gallery: 18.1.2010

New Year brings new works.
The first exhibition of the year curated by Ryan Higgins and Edwina McEachern.
We actually decided it would be an interesting start to open the new year with an exhibition both exhibiting and running the space. Forming 18.1.2010 an exhibition that brings together 5 artists documenting a person or thing remembered.

Sunday, 10 January 2010

Saturday, 9 January 2010

Reality show called life.



Study on a bus journey- documenting chairs sat in and choices people make when finding somewhere to sit.
Noticing that every lamppost on every street corner I travelled through there was a CCTV camera. Cameras on the buses. Not that its a new idea but it is something to be made aware of about just how closely we are being monitored. And until seeing such things we dont realise it.
I guess it brings discussion into the ideas of 'reality' is not just a tv show. It is an actual state of social condition.

Friday, 1 January 2010

'Art is the gurantee of sanity. That is the most important thing i have said' Louise Bourgeois