Is This Thing On? Post PV

Incredibly, in spite of the snow people came to see the show, many many thanks to those who braved the cold weather for it! Altogether I'd say it was a bit of a success, fantastic to see our work up in a real gallery situation out in London, first of many to come hopefully. I'd say though, for networking's sake, I really need to get some business cards, some people were interested in the work, and it would've been better if I could've given them a card to keep them updated, so for future people who will get this website, welcome to my blog.

The participatory piece where I got the audience to shout at a piece of paper with a megaphone was successful, quite a big mark was made as a result of the soundwaves, I really want to develop this idea. It's been suggested that I simplify my idea a bit again, so I'm not sure where to go next, but I'm thinking more simple, but much bigger, perhaps stepping in to the relms of installation? Definitely with an element of audience participation though, maybe try and draw on some inspiration from other artists I've been told to look at.

Here are some pics from the exhibition for those who couldn't make it..and those who just want to see it again in all it's glory :D

Is This Thing On?..UP!

It's finally up, after 5 hours of mounting and massive amounts of stress it's all up there, so I took some photos of the work before the night, but I'll take some more tomorrow on the actual night, after the performance done by the audience on the newsprint with the megaphone. Very excited about this show! Just really hoping people come despite the snow.

Life Drawing with Dagmar Glausnitzer

Here are some photos of an extremely unconventional life drawing workshop which I took part in recently led by the fantastic Dagmar Glausnitzer. The excersises ranged from 5 second drawings to lying in the foetal position drawing the model. I found that by doing these seemingly random excersises I was forced to move away from drawing habits, turning the drawings slightly more into performance than anything else. The group was quite small so we were able to take a whole day to direct the model ourselves to work in ideas from our general practices, which was incredibly useful. So here are a few examples of the work that came out of it in the end.