Javelin. Pencil, acrylic, paper, card, correction fluid, xerographic print. 29x42cm. 2012
Deer Swim. Magazine page and photocopies. 29x84cm.
P1. Photocopies from collage mounted on paper. 146x110cm.
14 November 2012
15 October 2012
Locus+
Andrew Grassie
The Locus+ Office
2001
Tempera on Paper
View the Locus+ archive at http://www.locusplus.org.uk/assets/text/CV_Oct2011.pdf
10 September 2012
16 August 2012
12 May 2012
Adrienne Rich
1. Date 2. Time, usually ship’s time kept on 2400
watch face 3. Log (odometer), which usually has the
same calibration as the knotmeter 4. Course, usually compass, as read, without
corrections 5. Speed by knotmeter 6. Location by Latitude and Longitude or
description 7. Optional 8. AWS, apparent wind speed 9. AWA, apparent wind angle (0° to 180°,
port or starboard) 10. Baro (barometer), in millibars 11. Comments (weather, sea state, battery
charging, temperature checks, etc)
"… poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are
outlawed and made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seemed
possible, remind us of kinship where all that seems possible is
separation". Adrienne Rich
Our hero: Adrienne Rich
Eve Ensler and Jackie Kay pay tribute to the great
American poet and feminist who has just died. Guardian, 7/04/12
4 May 2012
27 April 2012
14 April 2012
2 April 2012
Academia
Academia used to
be the perfect place for introverts.
Now it often favours boasters, publicity seekers, performing clowns and
people who like doing admin.
Thinkers,
writers and artists in late-nineteenth-century Europe were impelled by their
distrust of the growing materialism of their age towards a search for truths
that were of personal and universal significance.
Milner, John. (1971), Symbolists and
Decadents, Studio Vista: London
Robinson In Space. d. Patrick
Keiller, 1997
Like London, the film
layers static images, music, narration and quotation. At the beginning and end
of the film, we hear Allan Gray's haunting prelude from A Matter of Life and Death (d. Michael Powell/Emeric
Pressburger, 1946), a film made at the very beginning of the postwar period of
English optimism, whose hero traverses the gap between the worlds of wartime
reality and the afterlife. Robinson seems to be telling us that though the
foundations of the world are material, reality itself is beautiful only insofar
as our imagination transforms it.
A picture of Kevin Ayers
28 March 2012
Drawing
Guide insulation tape on xerographic print, 29x21cm; Modular Trophy oil on light paper, 29x21cm; Diamond Geezer pencil and paper on cut section from a Shiva Linga poster, 15x9cm
The ordinary and the grand, the illusion of universal standards.
10 March 2012
Gabriel Orozco
On photographs
Gabriel Orozco
Cat in the Jungle 1992 Cibachrome
…downplaying its role of photographic object and
emphasizing instead its purpose as a visual record.
Morgan, Jessica (2011). Gabriel Orozco. London. Tate Publishing. Page 57.
10 January 2012
11 December 2011
7 December 2011
A Collection
A Collection of Postcards Showing Art Made Between 1946 and the Present
(Studio View)
Postcards, paper, pencil, colour photocopy, pen on paper. 2011.
Dimensions variable.
27 November 2011
Tillmans/Moth
When you look for one thing, you find another. Paintings are stills of things, many stills of things, and memory.
20 October 2011
Studies For Don Van Vliet And The Golden Bough
Study For Don van Vliet And The Golden Bough
pencil, acrylic, gloss paint, collage, photocopy on paper
50x40cm
5 October 2011
The Constellation of The Lyre
Here are some notes on the recent works; they are still under consideration.
The Constellation of the Lyre has six images based on painting and one with collage, there are also a number of associated drawings. The individual works use different styles or visual languages to present aerial views, views looking up and presentations of things that fly and leave the earth, however briefly. The Pinakothek Der Moderne shows an image from the collection catalogue cover that features Joseph Beuys’s The End of the Twentieth Century. The title has a certain ring from the use of English and German words together. The second painting, The Ecstasy of the Great Wood Carver Steiner re-orders a title from a Werner Herzog film about the champion ski jumper and carpenter Walter Steiner.
Two paintings have the same title: We Are Stardust. This title comes from a song written by Joni Mitchell, with associations to Woodstock and its sentiment urging a reconnection to nature. One image is a single tree, the other a more abstract reading, has its source in a communications tower at a motorway service station. The Second Badge Painting builds its own constellation and emblem.
Edward Thomas wrote the poem The Constellation of the Lyre, his original sketch and notation reproduced in Edward Thomas Selected Poems, edited by Matthew Hollis, (Faber and Faber Ltd 2011).
Flight 447 crashed in the Southern Atlantic in 2009, there were no survivors from the Air France disaster. Although various pieces of wreckage were found floating on the sea’s surface, the hunt for and eventual discovery of the black boxes was extraordinarily long and difficult. The work, Constellation of the Lyre, uses a collage element from part of a poster for an exhibition of Indian Shiva Linga divine mystique paintings.
This is the constellation of the Lyre:
Its music cannot ever tire,
For it is silent. No man need fear it:
Unless he wants to, he will not hear it.
28 September 2011
27 September 2011
10 September 2011
12 July 2011
2 July 2011
Motorcade/Flashparade Open painting
http://www.motorcadeflashparade.com/p/open-painting-competition.html
The Morning After, Architecture of the Southern Period
2010
1 July 2011
Spike Island Open
This year Spike Island Open included the open studios, an exhibition by Marjolin Dijkman and a group show featuring: Viv Baker, Sovay Berriman, Peter Bobby, Katy Connor, Peter Dalby, Katie Davies, Garreth Hughes, Angela Lizon, Andrew Mania, Vic Moreton, Jonathan Mosley and Sophie Warren, Russell Oliver, Ryan Oliver, William Rounce, Mark Samsworth, Howard Silverman, and Emma Stibbon.
Marjolin Dijkman
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
Studio 78 Mark Samsworth
They Are Our Desire For Light, For Stars, For Rainbows
2011
10 May 2011
29 January 2011
ArtSway Open
ArtSway Open 2010, 20th November - 23rd January 2011
I Fell Upon You And You Fell Upon Me
2010
finger joint wood, oil on gesso on card
108x11x97 cm
1 December 2010
Evening
Evening, a gentle rain is falling. There is no breeze.
When you think where you were,
nine or so months ago,
things aren't so bad:
financially and more.
Outside, the air is grey with drizzle.
A neighbourhood of summer houses,
communities gated.
A man plays tennis
behind a covered forest
mist shrouded and alone.
www.artsway.org.uk/exh_current.htm#open2010%23open2010
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