Arriving, getting a sense of the space overall, preparing, curating and beginning to install my wall: And on the third day, enjoying sowing seeds in conversation with performance artist and painter Lyu Wen, on her patch of earth:
Category: Exhibitions
Show Build (midpoint reflections)
It’s Saturday now and Camberwell is closed, so can’t continue the show build, so reflecting on the show build so far: Yesterday I was able to enjoy a long conversation with Lyu Wen and she also looked at the paintings and videos afterward, asking me some interesting and insightful questions which I greatly appreciated. Earlier […]
Show Build(continued /day 3)
Day three nitty gritty: The paintings were all hung by the afternoon of day three, which was yesterday. In between we continued to improve other painted walls around and adopted a plinth for Alexis (first year interim show next door) which also needed a complete revamp with tape and repaint in several coats. I also […]
The Summer Show Build (continued/day2)
The nitty gritty of day two: The repainting of my wall was completed, also further coats to other walls all around, the whole room began to look much better for this important and time-consuming preparation. The selection of the paintings had to be made, so the paintings envisaged were taken out of their packaging and […]
The Summer Show Build
The show build is underway. For my part we have already hung the paintings and the computers (with headphones placed on floor cushions in place in front of each of them) to show the videos – one for each painting. My display looks simple and clear, the wall only allows five paintings but that is […]
Reviewing Titles
labels are due soon (link to calendar concerning the Summer Show) so have been reviewing the titles for the paintings for the upcoming Summer show as given in this earlier post Dates for the Summer Show are: Thursday 11 July 18.00 – 21.00 – opening night Friday 12 July 10.00 – 20.00 Saturday 13 July […]
for my information – some essential admin re Summer Show
Below, our instructions, received by email from Jonathan: attached are the important documents that you need in planning the MA Summer Shows: – MA Select Show application form (deadline Monday 1 July 10.00 UK time) – MA Summer Show official PDF invite – you can send this to friends, family and contacts – Risk Assessment […]
Critical Evaluation for Group Tutorial: Future-Focused
Critical Evaluation (Future-Focused) – text prepared for group tutorial session Thursday 13th June 2019: The MA Summer Show preparation has allowed me to consolidate an idea that was embedded in my work from the outset: the painting plus its video as a single module of installation. I intend to continue this trajectory already having further oil paintings […]
Symposium 2 – reflecting on feedback
I have had some problems retrieving the Skype feedback of my online peers but one thing I remember was the feedback in terms of hearing my narration. I have discovered over the course of the MA that I really enjoy narrating. This has given me encouragement and impetus with respect to creating narratives to the […]
Paintings for the Summer Show
Images of 5 of the (7 or 8) paintings (oil on aluminium, each 125 x 123/127 cm) destined for the Summer show, now processed in higher resolution: