A Viset To London

Last Thursday, my college took the entire art department on a trip to London, to viset the Saatchi Gallery and The TATE Modern for the Gerhard Richter exhibition. the Saatchi was brilliant, i really enjoyed its curious ways, especialy the sculptures and many of the paintings.

Here are some of my favorate peices from the Saatchi Gallery....

Volker Hueller

Rauch Im Aug

2009
Watercolour, shellac

25 x 20 cm

 

Dirk Bell

Wolf Hamlet Madonna Elmex

2006
Mixed media on canvas

230 x 140 cm

 

André Butzer

Untitled

2007
Oil on canvas

340 x 260cm

 

Zhivago Duncan

Pretentious Crap

2010-2011
Wood, glass, mixed media

300 x 307 x 250 cm

Jeppe Hein

Mirror Wall (Video)

2010
Mirror foil, wooden frame substructure, vibration system

200 x 356 cm

Thomas Helbig

Jungfrau

2005
diverse materials

85 x 85 x 90 cm

Georg Herold

Untitled

2010
Batten, canvas, lacquer, thread and screws

120 x 420 x 165 cm

Thomas Kiesewetter

Matisse Blau

2010
Sheet metal, steel, lacquer

117.5 x 156 x 133 cm

Jutta Koether

Mède

1992
Oil on canvas

250 x 200 cm

 

Kirstine Roepstorff

All Possible Experiences (From the series "The Inner Sound that Kills the Outer")

2006
Mixed media collage

273 x 444cm

Markus Selg

Trauernde

2008
Plaster, straw, jute, metal, shellac

Artwork: 125 x 30 x 30 cm Plinth: 62 x 36 x 36 cm

Andro Wekua

Sunset (detail)

2008
Installation of 170 glazed ceramic panels, metal framework, steel scaffolding

500 x 800 x 82 cm

Thomas Zipp

Schwarze Ballons (1. down, 2. up, 3. S.K., 4a. tumb...tumb..., 4b.ABCE, 5. little U-light, 6. L.E.M., 7. O.E., 8. Elektrizitait)

2005
9 part installation

mixed media

Now.... onto The Tate...

WOW, what an experience theres SO much stuff there i'll never begin to be able to list, find or explain in any detail, so many wonderful paintings, especially the cubist exhibition (lots of Braque, Picasso, Gris), lots of installations and sculptures, i could spend months there, getting to know each and every piece.

The Gerhard Richter exhibition was phenomenal, i never apreciated his work having seen much of his work in books, magazines, websites and album covers (Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation) but in the flesh, his work is so powerfull, partly due to the scale which also lends the detail no photograph could.

so here are a few fantastic paintings of his...

Abstract Painting (726) 1990

Hedge 1982

Vienna

Abstraktes Bild (710)    1989

Roll The Dice

These are beyond brilliant soundscapes for you to indulge. They're absalutly marvalously absorbing.

Roll The Dice - Calling All Workers

Roll The Dice - Into The Ground

A Home Land

These are drawings in response to the land of which land i have lived upon all my life.

No matter what people think, or how much people pay and protest, this earth shall never be owned by any man, meerly the etherial right to work it.



Charcoal and tainted chalk.

A Work In Progress - Feilds

I'm a rural chap, so im surrounded by feilds, panoramic views , vast valleys and a LOT of mud... so yeh, heres a couple of ideas im working on. I'll put the evoloutions up soon enough.

These are in charcoal and tainted chalk.

More Music: Neurosis, The James Cleaver Quintet

The music some bands/artists create is beyond inspiring and can have dramatic effects upon my work, changing the mood, rythms, textures and colours.

so heres something incredably brilliant:

Neurosis - Lost

"Are you lost?"
"Yes."
"Because we don't know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well, yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless."
"Are you lost?"

The James Cleaver Quintet  

I'd also like to preach to anyone and everyone about these guys, The James Cleaver Quintet with their absalutly crazy blend of enchantingly chatchy, bouncing mellodies, with a funk edge, spinning into sudden erratic, crazed punk madness! theyre fabulous live and great people, truely deserving of much, especialy a trial on your ears!

The James Cleaver Quintet - Album Teaser

The James Cleaver Quintet - Chicken Shit For The Soul

"Looking Through You"

I have taken photos of strangers at random (with their permission) to create a collaged society, showing exterior influences through a mixed medium image, to show how a society stares as a fickle unit of inconsistencies.          

Comprising of all, united by none, judgemental of you.

 This was displayed at the 'Project 106' building in weymouth from the 20th to the 21st

"Looking Through", a photographic exhibition

So tomorrow my collage groups photography exhibition is going up in 'Project 106' in Weymouth High Street. There will be a huge variety of work all with an individual aproach to "looking through" hopefully it will go well, i'll blog my images soon. from 6 till 9 tomorrow is the privet viewing, but it is open to the public from 10 untill 5 on friday, please feel free to pop in and have a nose about :)

This is the exhibitions Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/notifications#!/event.php?eid=272905916074370

Rolo Tomassi

Rolo Tomassi are an incredable musical spectical and really quite something live too, blending Jazz, Rock, Punk and Hardcore with strange synths and a mixture of  angelicaly smooth and beyond raw vocals through some amazing song writting. Rolo Tomassi are one of the bands that really inspire me within my own music and art, and motivate me whether im working, drawing or painting!

                                                        PLEASE LISTEN TO THESE!!!

Rolo Tomassi - Everything Went Grey

Rolo Tomassi - C Is For Calculus

Rolo Tomassi - Cosmology

Rolo Tomassi - Fofteen

Rolo Tomassi - Nine

Rolo Tomassi - Nine Acoustic



                                                               Thanks for your time :)

Philip Mount

I attended a lecture from Philip Mount a while back, and just feel like spreading his name as much as i can, because of the creat paintings and drawings. he's a great guy, his work is beyond inspireing and his work deserves attention!


'Solvere'

  'The Astor Suit'

http://www.philipmount.co.uk/index.htm

'Park Avenue'

Photography

i am studying photography at college and will be up until half term. i found alot of beautiful surfaces and objects and chose to look at them in a different light and context. here are a few bits and peices:


Rotten Log





                                                            

                                                         
                                                                                                Cracked Ground












Hob From An Out-door Gas Oven                                             

                                                       Nettles

Any Help?

Hey, it would be a huge help if anyone could tell me who it was that said this:

"Theres no such thing as art, only artists"

I keep quoting them.... i just cant remember who im quoting..... maybe i should refrain from quoting them.....

This is slightly irrelevalt to the writting above, but im really feeling inspired by Peter Lanyon's work at the moment...

Genoration



Porthleven

things, just things...

Our end of year show at college went really well, the 'best of' exhibition for all the art courses at Weymouth College goes up on monday, some of my lifedrawing is going to be included which is great! so i thaught id put some up.

Again, these were taken on my phone, so there grainy and off colour, sorry. Hopefully I'll come across some sort of huge pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and be able to afford a half decent camera

Iv also been lending a hand to Hourglass Promotions who are putting on gigs in Weymouth, on wednessday Sepultura played at The Pavillion which was genuinly amazing.

here is there Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/hourglasspromo
and here is the fourum/official website http://www.hourglasspromo.com/

they want to know what bands local people would want to see, so  sign up, and tell them!!!

Final Peice For The End Of Year Show At Weymouth College

Our end of year show is next week at weymouth college, come on down and have a peep at what everyones been up to, the image below is my final peice. not to sure what to think of it myself, any posative or negative comments on it are welcome. the image to the right is where my idea started out, bassed on scaffolding. click this link for more information on the show http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210395028998702

p.s. these were taken on my phone, so the colours really off, especialy the lighter and darker parts, as these are very emphisised. ill try get some new ones up soon..ish...

My Final Peice For Unit 5

'Unit 5' is a part of my course which is bassed on art history and context. i chose to research the Abstract Expresionists and this painting was response to my research.

cubism inspired photo montage

although this took no where near as much skill or thaught as a cubist painting, the over all effect and process was interesting. i managed to align all the photots in a way that shows the still life from 360 degrees which is very similer to how it was set up but retains the disjointed chaos.

Mint Packaging

 here is a mint packet i designd to be completly compostable, im fairly pleased with the results, however i dont enjoy the design side of things as much as i do the art...

and again, sorry for my poor photography skills..

This is the clown costume i made for Halloween in 2010

To make the mask i created a mold from plaster scene, covered it in cling film and then used paper mache to make almost a cast of it that was light weight enough to where. I painted it with acrylics and used a dusting technique to create the smooth, layered colour transitions. This photo was taken on weymouth sea front by my friend Abi Arnold, who is a fantastic photographer and managed to make this image look so ghostly by moveing the camera in circles while taking the photo. The lighting in the back ground is currently being re-designed by an amazing artist from Lous, Vong Phaophanit.

hello, this is my first blog...

                       willem de kooning is an awesome painter