Skindred - Weymouth Pavilion

One of the proudest moments of my life was watching some of these videos of last Sunday at one of the concerts I help organise with Hourglass Promotions. I'm very proud to be part of the global music community and to have given 600 odd people the time of their lives at a sold out show, it really makes all the stress and long hours worth it. It breaks my heart to think that next year the council intend to bulldoze the pavilion (which happens to have managed to survive both world wars) so they can build another huge car park RIGHT NEXT TO ANOTHER WHICH IS ALWAYS EMPTY!! Well, always except when we put on concerts like last Sunday...

please back our Save The Pavilion campaign if you can by clicking HERE, it would be much appreciated!

As Skindred may say "stand for something, or you'll fall for anything" lets stand up for the pavilion.

Now, weather or not your into the music, just check out these videos from side of stage to get a glimpse of what its all about!!

here is some of their studio material

Reggae/Metal with Punk influences.... from Wales... Why not? I think its awesome!

Churning The Earth's Flesh

I know I've neglected my blog for a while, but i promise I'll do my best to keep the art flowing from now on, but I'm a busy guy, sorry.

Here's something i did a while ago (I'll post my latest works once they have dried)

I combined multiple view
points as well as layers of separate places for this piece. A large amount of the spaces i was viewing were in the process of being ploughed.






Churning The Earth's Flesh - Acrylic, Charcoal and Chalk on Wood (MDF)







On a separate note I'd like to try to urge everyone to listen to Godspeed You! Black Emperor, who I'm finding incredibly inspiring at the moment. Stirringly ambient and evocative.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEsdiiYkhT8

Solution

Most of my work over the past few months has been based on spaces, specifically an area which you inhabit, your own space will always, as i have found, affect you drastically. in order to move forwards with life and living it efficiently, changes in these spaces are needed, hence I have moved from one of Dorset's most rural places, to one of its most built up areas. It's very different having spent my whole life around fields of cows etc. for the most part though, its much better, but the stars aren't as bright. 

This is the inspiration for this piece. I have found stepping stones to help me move forwards. 
Solutions.

Conte, Acrylic, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

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Untitled Abstraction

Untitled Abstraction 

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Acrylic on thin card

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Music On Mass

This weekend just gone, we at Hourglass Promotions put on 2 major shows in Weymouth with some BIG bands and BIG agents. Both events went really well, good times were had all around, and to see so many people with smiling faces because of what we have done was an incredible feeling. Although close to slave labour, working with Hourglass is awesome (if my maths is correct, I worked about 37 unpaid hours over Friday, Saturday and Sunday...? got to the pavilion at 8am on Friday to set up the venue and didn't get home after packing down until 4am, same again on Sunday, except we got back at about 1am) and our new venue looks really cool, so its all worth it :D

 

I cant believe we managed to have so many great bands play in such a small town in one weekend!! So here are a few of them: 

 

Lower Than Atlantis - Deadliest Catch 

Lower Than Atlantis - Far Q 

Mallory Knox - Oceans

Mallory Knox - Resuscitate, live at Weymouth Pavilion 

Max Raptor - Carolina 

These guys, Max Raptor, were my Favourite band of the weekend, really nice guys too!  

Max Raptor - Patron Saint Of Nothing (live acoustic session) 

Your Demise - Burnt Tongues 

Your Demise - Forget About Me

  

   

   

    

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Done And Dusted, Upwards And Onwards

Why have such limitations? 

I like that it's almost infinite, 

The sea doesn't do it for me.

Why have a horizon you'll never reach? 

I say goodbye to the sky. 

The forever flowing hills 

Eddy so dynamically, 

As the sections pour through grids, 

Into ever evolving expanses of foliage forms 

Sprouting from the soil, 

An earthy flesh. 

An ultimate display of power and elegance.

A feminine finesse, 

A masculine might. 

Poised

Like a green haired being. 

A giant, if you will.

My minds eye sees it sprint.

Acrylic, chalk and charcoal on canvas

Acrylic, chalk, charcoal and conte on canvas

Acrylic, chalk, charcoal and conte on canvas

Acrylic, chalk, charcoal and conte on board

Acrylic, chalk and charcoal on card

It's been a while since I've posted... well, not that  long, but lots has happened, its been a fast paced month or so. The above pictures are my final pieces for my final major project for college and in part are the results of many late nights (by late nights i mean going to bed in the early hours of the morning) but now college is done and out the way, so i can continue on my own path, doing my own thing!! The final exhibition went well too, my class exhibited with some A level photography students, the privet view was a lot of fun. :)

Ive also entered the real world beyond education by moving out and living with a friend in a town, rather than in the middle of nowhere, which is brilliant! shops within 20 metres instead of 3 miles!! its great :')

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The Tate Britain: Picasso In Britain

On Thursday the 10th my college took us to London again! :D So I went to the Tate Britain for the Picasso exhibition they have on at the moment, although surprised that i was the only member of my class that decided to go there, it was AMAZING! not only did they pretty much cover each phase of Picasso's artistic career but compared his work to some of the major British artists that he had a huge impact on, each of which filled a large room!

The British artists included in the exhibition were Wyndham Lewis, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Ben Nicholson, Duncan Grant and Henry Moore.

They said not to take any photos in the exhibition, but i figured it wouldn't hurt anyone in any way if i took a couple with no flash or anything like that... so i was rather cheeky and as the staff were telling off other people for taking photos, i took the opportunity to take a few haha i had to be quick though, so their not great photos, but seeing as all of the work is all over the Internet anyway, I'm not really sure what the problem was, if i had the flash off. I suppose its a paid exhibition and they want people to buy the book that pretty much summarises the exhibition (which i bought anyway, because it's brilliant). I'm not entirely sure of the copy right/patent laws of art but i think its something along the lines of, if the artist is dead then then you can reproduce (take photos of) the work without permission from the artist (obviously they cant give permission, for reasons i need not explain). Shall i post a few? hmm...

Suppose if i DO get in trouble for this, I'll take them down should they ask me too, seems fair to me, especially due to how terrible these photos are, due to me trying to be ever so discrete...

Duncan Grant

Ben Nicholson

Picasso

Francis Bacon

Picasso

Graham Sutherland

Picasso













I didn't manage to take any photos of Wyndham Lewis' or David Hockney's work.

After exiting the Picasso exhibition, i took a wrong turn while trying to leave Tate Britain and Found a very poorly lit room with one of my favourite paintings in, which made my day so much more spectacular!! It was Porthleven by Peter Lanyon! Genuinely breath taking.

























There were also two other works in the room that caught my eye, I'm unsure of the artist who created the relief in the first of the two pictures bellow, but the second image is Black Mirror by Alan Davie.

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"So I'm out here again, sparks hid behind my teeth, i wont say a word for fear of fire spreading through."

Chalk, Cahrcoal and Conte on Mounting Board

Chalk, Charcoal, Acrylic, Emulsion and Conte on Mounting Board

Acrylic on Paper

Chalk, Charcoal and Acrylic on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Chalk, Charcoal and Pencil on Paper

Acrylic, Conte, Chalk and Charcoal on Paper

Acrylic, Emulsion, Water Colour and Gouache on Mounting Board

Acrylic, Chalk and Charcoal on Mounting Board

All of these except the 2nd and 5th pictures were done on tuseday, when i filled a backpack full of a range of materials, took a nice long walk around the hills and had a great time painting and drawing what i saw. The horse fly arent quite so fun but they gave up trying to bite me after a while haha!

The images above are all going towards my final major project for college (im liking the sound of the final part!) but having a small amount of time to create the most amazing work youve done through out your entire education to date with no guide line, not even a breif, is quite tricky... Even though its still early days as far as this project is concerned, i know the time will fly by and before i know it, i'll need final pieces to mount and be ready for the final show...

The title of this post is a quote from David De La Hoz by The Chariot which i have had stuck in my head ALL week... Glad its an amazing song hahaha :)

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Life Drawing

I stumbled upon some old life drawing work the other day, which was included in my college course but now isnt. I used to enjoy it so much, its a shame it was only for the first year of the course, but here are a few drawings and a painting, which were all done in limited time :)

Chalk and charcoal

Pencil

Acrylic

Oil pastel

Calk, coloured chalk and charcoal

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Clown Mask Photographs

I have a lovely new gadget, so i thaught i'd have a quick play about with it :) 

(I really hope this doesnt scare too many people away, so incase anyones scared of clowns, SCROLL DOWN QUICK!) 

My new gizmo is a neat little camera, nothing too flashy and it was second hand, but it works well and im pretty damn happy with it!

These photos are of my clown mask (which features in a post loooooong ago) that i made a couple of years ago for Halloween. I played about with the shutter speeds and movement to make them look like this. I think they look a bit like they're laughing away and something fairly grousome...

The Land Harbour

                                          

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Ive been etching with with aquatint an all! :)

Its a very enjoyable process which... i have... enjoyed!

Ive found that a huge variety of marks can be made when using both the hardground etching and aquatint, i also like that each colour print is ever so slightly different, which gives a unique quality to each print of the same thing. Ive also invested in a fairly cheep, half decent camera that a friend was selling, so thats why these pictures aren't quite as grainy or grimey as the usual ones :D (the ones that werent previously were from borrowed cameras)

When i leave college in july im going to miss the print facilities, but im mooving out so hey, its going to be good!! However... money is needed to survive off until i get a proper job, so im going to be cheeky and say, anyone wanna buy a print? name a price? not looking for alot... 100% of all money goes towards a starving artist! DONATE NOW AND GET A FREE PRINT!! ;)

But seriously... c'mon, please?

Also, Download Festival looks good this year (Cancer Bats, Refused, The James Cleaver Quintet and many many more bands are playing)

Not feeling charitable? dont blame you... Thanks for reading and looking with your eyes :)

Jordan Buckley - Every Time I Die - New Junk Aesthetic artwork

Jordan Buckley plays guitar for a band called Every Time I Die (a hardcore punk 'n' roll band from America) and this is the album artwork for their 2009 album New Junk Aesthetic, which really is EXCELENT but the cover artwork aswell as the artwork in the liner notes demands some attention and severly due credit too, so here they are! lyrics and all...

I think theyre screen prints over ink splashes, but im not entirley sure as it doesent say in the album credits.

Hope people enjoy them as much as i do :)

take a listen?

                                                 Every Time I Die - Wanderlust