Thank you to everyone who came to my exhibition last week, and saw the premiere of my new sculpture called ‘Exquisite Corpse’.
Fellowship Exhibition ~ City and Guilds of London Art School
I am premiering a new body of work called ‘The Cadaver Room’ at City and Guilds of London Art School, as my three year Research Fellowship comes to an end. I would be delighted if you could attend the exhibition, where my work will be showcased alongside graduating MA students of the School of Fine Art.
'The Cadaver Room’ explores the transgressive relationship between the animal and the human forms - stripping both back to their raw, most abject, primitive forms. The work seeks a common trait - the orifices - for it is within these orifices that the confines of the body are overcome. The body of work consists of a central alter piece sculpture - a 14 sided sphere, upon where the boundaries of each facet divide one body from the other at their points of intersection. Nets have been printed from the sculpture and provide an ordered dissection of the piece. In these we see the grotesque body laid out, unraveled and exposed.
Dates for the show are as follows:
Wednesday 11 September 5pm - 9pm Private View
Thursday 12 September 10am - 7.30pm
Friday 13 September 10am - 7.30pm
Saturday 14 September 10am - 5pm
Sunday 15 September 10am - 5pm
City and Guilds of London Art School,
124 Kennington Park Road,
London,
SE11 4DJ
New work in production - 14 plate etching. Will be complete, and ready for my show at City and Guilds Art School as part of my Fellowship in September. Details of show to follow.
Artichoke Printmakers
Printing at Artichoke Printmakers last week. A very complicated 14 plate piece. Will be exhibiting the final print in September at City and Guilds of London Art School as part of my fellowship.
Film Screening at Brighton Fringe Festival
My film Punctum will be screened at the Brighton Fringe on Tuesday 14th and 21st May.
Click here to watch, or visit the ‘film’ section on my site… http://vimeo.com/29952340
London Original Print Fair was a great success. Thoroughly enjoyed meeting interesting people and talking about printmaking everyday! Our stand looked great.
London Original Print Fair 2013
I am showing some of my new work at the London Original Print Fair this week, as part of the City and Guilds of London Art Schools stand. So do feel free to come along. Dates and times are as follows…
Thursday 25th April10am to 9pm
Friday 26th April10am to 10pm
Saturday 27th April10am to 6pm
Sunday 28th April10am to 6pm
RCA SECRET 2013 - 14th until 22nd March, Royal College of Art, Dyson Building
Working as Artist in Residence at the Works on Paper Fair 2013
Exquisite Corpse facets 4,5 and 6
And for a Christmas treat, a sneaky peak at a new piece from the Exquisite Corpse body of work.
Meat and Mountains cont...
Here are the first four of the meat and mountains series…
Quiver Bone, Etching, 2012
Pig Skin Bus, Etching, 2012
Flesh Tower, Etching, 2012
Middle Stump, Etching, 2012
A snap from Weds 5th Sept where I worked as Art Director on a fashion shoot. Got to work with some beautiful people and even more beautiful taxidermy birdies.
365 Days of Vomiting, Etching Installation at ‘A Place Called Home Exhibition, Clearlake Hotel, London. 26th April 2012.
//FADE IN
INT. EARLY AFTERNOON. GIRL’S BEDROOM.
DECORATED IN PINK AND WHITE. WHITE DRESSER WITH MIRROR TO THE RIGHT OF THE ROOM. OVERSIZED FISH TANK FILLS THE DRESSER.
GIRL ties pink cotton around fishes neck (if fish have such things) and appears to be attempting to take it for a walk.
GIRL soon becomes bored when fish stops ‘walking’ and decides to put it in a pink plastic till register.
GIRL opens and closes the till register again and again and again until the fish disappears and all that remains is a bright red stain on the carpet, the till register and pulp underneath GIRL’S fingernails.
EXIT GIRL
ENTER WOMAN
WOMAN
“Every other memory of the things I murdered or the deaths I encountered can be relayed in the same cold detached way. That was until my cat died.”
“His death blasted a hole in me. I tried everything and anything to deal with the death. Online research revealed the ways I was supposed to be feeling. They call them the seven stages of grief – shock, denial, anger, bargaining, guilt, depression and acceptance. A formula for the human model in order to deal with inevitability.”
“I stopped murdering innocent creatures full stop. I became a vegetarian. I stopped washing in fear of killing any germs. I stopped having sex with my partner in fear of killing any sperm.”
“Eventually all that gave way to obsessive collecting of my remaining cats hairballs, fur that gathered in the corners of the rooms, using cellotape to retrieve even the most tricky of deposits from blankets and covers. These are my treasure. My answer to death became so clear to me. I’d never thought of it before, but this way I’ll get to see her forever. Happy anniversary.”
INT. HOTEL APARTMENT. NIGHT.
WOMAN SAT IN DILAPIDATED FILM SET MODEL OF WHAT A HOME SHOULD LOOK LIKE. THE RULES HAVE ALL BEEN OBEYED BUT SOMETHING’S JUST NOT WORKING.
LOUNGE – 30 YEAR OLD SOFAS, CARPET, PICTURES ON THE WALLS (AUBREY BEARDSLEY PRINTS), MIRROR, OLD RUG, T.V. WALLS ARE DECORATED IN PEACH COLOURED WALL PAPER OFF-SET WITH A BORDER OF BROWN CARPET TILES 2/3RDS OF THE WAY DOWN THE WALL. PIANO. COFFEE TABLE
WOMAN STARES OUT OF THE WINDOW. SOMETHING RUBS AGAINST HER LEGS. SHE LOOKS DOWN. NOTHING THERE.
EXIT WOMAN
//FADE OUT