Spectra 1 presented by Future Tense had its private view last week and all the hard work was worth it. I’m proud to be presenting my work with a fantastic group of artists including Jen Stark, who’s incredible multifaceted paper art I have admired for some time, the show was received with an overwhelming positivity. Featuring paintings, sculpture, video and installation, the exhibition is on until Dec 18th at LondoNewcastle Gallery, 28 Redchurch Street and is well worth a visit. Here are some images of my installation piece called Refractive Monolith which used about ten thousand metres of acrylic yarn.
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I finished my painting and sent it off to The Goss Michael Foundation in Dallas for the MTV Redefine exhibition and auction set up to raise money for Staying Alive, a charity dedicated to helping and educating people about HIV. Here are some photos of the show. I was proud to see my work in a room with some seriously prestigious artists. The show raised $800 k.
Lee Baker and Ben Eine
Faile, Dalek and Shepard Fairey
Damien Hirst
Hiroshi
Katrin Fridriks
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making this painting has been a cerebral rollercoaster . Basically what you see here is the painting before I went in and changed it again. I drew in black lines around all the buildings and background and I came in the next day and hated it. So, its taken about 10 days to rectify it all. Also, I’m feeling as though the cloud should be somehow enveloping the buildings, like some huge character from a Japanese monster movie.
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There’s something mystical in the starkness of Charles Sheeler’s landscape paintings. They should be sad and lonely and that isnt the case at all. I feel an incredible sense of calm when looking at his work. An American artist and founder of American Modernism, his paintings make Edward Hopper’s work look positively busy. Sheeler is definitely having an influence on me. I can feel that I want to make a series of paintings about nature versus man.
I also found this amazing painting at the Manchester Museum of Modern Art. Its by CRW Nevinson. While sensitively depicting a dramatic moment in Wartime history he has managed to deconstruct the scene into simple shapes and tones, retaining an overwhelming sense of scale on a small canvas.
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Its coming along. But its completely changed. At first, a Geisha was going to be in the foreground amongst flower and insects. But now I have an idea to create a series of threatening landscapes. Nature versus any kind of synthetic construct. Anyway, you’ll see what I mean as the painting progresses. Beneath the cloud with sit a city scape, loosely based on a view of Shinjuku in Tokyo.
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