In the studio...
Currently in the studio working on a new etching… Large steel plate etching with gold leaf chine colle, very much work in progress, but exciting never-the-less.
RE: OPEN
I have been selected to exhibit ‘Leda’ at the RE:Open from 17th August - 2nd September at the Bankside Gallery, London. Here is a sneaky peak of the work being proofed in the studio. 'Leda’ is a very very big screen resist etching. More details to come soon…
The music promo I directed in Jan has finally been released. Enjoy.
My Baby’s just a Baby ~ Knickers.
Director/Dictator
These past few weeks have been very busy! Two big exhibitions and then directing and shooting a music promo for the band Strangefruit. Exciting times indeed. It was an honour to work with such a fantastic crew: Matthew Oaten DoP, Olivia Hicks Art Director and the majestic Zoe Simon - an actress I’ve been wanting to collaborate with for a long time.
The promo for Strangefruit’s wonderfully haunting song ‘Sea of Fog’ will be out of post production before too long. So stay tuned for its release. In the meantime, here are some photographs of me directing/dictating (its all in the finger point)!
365 Days of Vomiting (close up), Etching Installation at ‘A Place Called Home Exhibition, Clearlake Hotel, London. 26th April 2012.
365 Days of Vomiting, Etching Installation at ‘A Place Called Home Exhibition, Clearlake Hotel, London. 26th April 2012.
A PLACE CALLED HOME.
Last night, in a mock victorian, seedy hotel in Kensington, a wonderful event took place. Rented by the hour returned to Clearlake Hotel for the second time. Five contemporary artists; Olivia Hicks, Beatrice Haines, Laura Clarke, Luke Rodilosso and James Winter came together to produce psychosocial responses to the space. The rooms were no longer hotel rooms, but a home from home, usually only occupied for a short period by an endless stream of different people, but in this private space at a particular moment in time a multitude of stories were told, both real and imagined.
Thank you to everyone who came last night. It was a great success.
Thank you to everyone who came to the London Original Print Fair! It was a real success! If you missed it, you can see all works exhibited (including mine) at this address…
London Original Print Fair 2012
London Original Print Fair PV last night! Great people, great work, a few sales, what more could we have asked for! Photographs to follow.
//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
LONDON ORIGINAL PRINT FAIR! →
I am exhibiting my new etchings at the London Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy from 19th April until the 22nd April. Come along and buy some wonderful artworks.
‘An Honest Man’ in progress.
Inky fingers ahoy! Printing my etching for the London Original Print Fair on the 19th of April.
Apocalypse →
Off to see the Apocalypse exhibition at the Tate tomorrow with my lovely Husband! CANT WAIT!
Probably my sound track for getting through the winter so far.
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My film ‘PUNCTUM’ has been selected for the Midnight Movies’ NIGHTCAP event as part of the 9th London Short Film Festival. And I can’t wait to share my surreal imaginings with you on the big screen!
The screening is on FRIDAY 13TH JANUARY at the RIO CINEMA in DALSTON from 11.30pm. Attached is a flyer for the event. Expect some weird, dark and creepy films, bunny masks, dripping taps and penises. My film will be screened alongside the Chapman Brothers, Ian Pons Jewell and some other wonderful horror film makers.
Hope to see you there!