Last week I watched all of Teesha Moore's wonderful new videos on YouTube. I have been an admirer of hers for many years. She is a very good teacher in these videos. Very straight forward as I only had to watch once and I pretty much absorbed it all. So here is my piece styled from the videos: I have been some form of this art journaling for years, but I like Teesha Moore's way of seeing collage and journalling. Quite honestly this was a blast to do.
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Paris-based graphic designer and artist Nacho Ormaechea uses the silhouettes of pedestrians as frames for his intriguing photomontages. The images are
Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto uses transparent, stretchy material, styrofoam pellets and pungent spices to create his installations of soft, biomorphic sculptures.
'I want to use sculpture to throw us back into the world, to provide this place where the magic, the subtlety, the extraordinary nature of out first-hand experience is celebrated, enhanced, made more present.' Antony Gormley This retrospective of Antony Gormley's work at the Royal Academy is absolutely superb. It is an exhibition of an artist at the height of his powers, an ambitious display over all of the main galleries that also showcases the playfulness and interactive nature of Gormley's work. The logistics of the technical and engineering challenges must have been immense and a real challenge to both the curators and the RA. The exhibition begins in the Academy's courtyard with a small unobtrusive little statue - Iron Baby, 1999, a cast of the artists daughter. Iron Baby appears tiny, prone and vulnerable in such a large open space. I liked the idea of placing such a tiny, easily overlooked piece here, in marked contrast to the massive, statement sculptural installations which usually command attention filling the courtyard (here), and (here). It was really interesting to observe the visitor interaction with this particular piece. Children and teenagers had little respect for it, kicking and standing on it. Whereas middle-aged women, perhaps mothers themselves, displayed more maternal instincts, bending to stroke and caress it. Iron Baby The exhibition proper opens with a room of Gormley's Slabworks. Then in the following room revisits some of his earliest pieces. One Apple Blanket Drawing V Mother's Pride Grasp Exercise Between Blood and Earth The next space containing Clearing, is immersive and fantastic. Clearing Clearing is an astonishing piece. I loved the placement by a mother of this actual baby in the middle of the frenetic aluminium tubes of Gormley's 'drawing in space'. Although having fun, her position reminded me of the vulnerability of Iron Baby in the courtyard. As visitors precariously negotiated their way through it, the coils of Clearing made some interesting noises rattling against each other, and left a range of scuff marks on the gallery walls too, which were all integral parts of the sculpture. Iron Baby After negotiating the frenzy of Clearing, visitors arrive in the relative calm and starkness of a room inhabited by the single sculpture - Subject II. Co-Ordinate VI Is a challenging piece of sculpture - three steel bars that slices through the spaces of four of the galleries representing the physical and infinity. Matrix III The massive, metallic grid-cloud of Matrix III hovers ominously overhead further into the exhibition. The rooms containing Gormley's sketchbooks and drawings were very impressive and of particular interest. It was a great opportunity to see the development of his thought and design processes laid bare. Lost Horizon I Gormley's signature figure sculptures projecting from ceiling, wall and floor created the most wonderfully surreal space. Although arranged as a group they were self-contained, having a strange sense of isolation and alienation about them, just concerned with holding their own, and occupying their own space. This room was fantastic. Body and Fruit These pieces were huge, pendulous and weighty, though appeared to defy gravity. Body and Fruit Concrete Works I loved the minimal traces of the human body found in these concrete blocks. I think it is these touches that distinguish Gormley's work. Cave Cave must have been another huge challenge for the planners. It is another immersive environment on an ambitious scale in which visitors engage with the work, whilst again becoming aware of their own bodies in relation to the space. Cave is another abstract Gormley body lying in a foetal position. A dark, slightly claustrophobic, maze-like construction in which visitors enter through the 'feet' and emerge in a cave-like torso illuminated by shafts of light. Host Another wonderfully still, contemplative space, full of seawater and clay resembling a silty primordial soup. I loved the differences between the apparent simplicity of this organic work, the sophistication of its architectural setting, and his more famous metallic pieces. It was a gentle, reflective way to bring the exhibition to a close. Antony Gormley until 3rd December The Royal Academy of Art Burlington House Piccadilly London
The Exquisite Corpse and others... Here are a selection of various Mail Art projects the first is a collaboration with Paul Clifford. 2004 Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan 2004 Oriel Gallery, Carmarthen 2004 Galeria d'Arte do Convento Espirito Santo, Loule, Portugal This body of work is a result of a collaboration between two travelling artists who share an empathy for surrealism and travelling. The work has been prompted by journeys made between several global locations, including Portugal, France, Germany, India, Cyprus, Spain, USA and North Yorkshire. A series of several hundred mail art paintings have been created and posted in a reciprocal visual dialogue, that has resurrected the surrealist game of the "Exquisite Corpse" within a contemporary cultural context. The project explores and extends the potential of accidental encounters, using intervention from the world postal systems, with stamps, franking and official annotation becoming integral to the poetics of the image. The small scale ( 20 x 30 cm ) mail works have also been extended into a series of digital images and of 4 large scale ( 120 x 150 cm ) paintings in mixed media. Click to view exhibition work
Inspiring! I love these intricate doodles over vintage images created by Eduardo Recife. You can also find the artist on Behance, Facebook and Instagram .
British sculptor Antony Gormley creates art concerned with the space we occupy within and without our bodies. Have a look at some of his most interesting sculptures.
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Exquisite Corpse is the name of a Surrealist parlor game in which a collection of images are assembled by several people into one completed image, typically of some sort of figure, whether human or animal. Begin with a sheet of paper that is folded into thirds (or fourths). The first participant would draw a head on the top third of the page (continuing the neck lines slightly onto the middle panel) which is then folded over and handed to the next participant to draw the torso, without seeing the drawing of the head. The process is repeated and the third participant would complete the figure by drawing the legs and feet. The technique was invented by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlor game called Consequences in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching. Breton said the diversion started about 1925. Here's a few examples... There are many childrens books which utilize this concept- And a website that was developed for a childrens' Hospice in London- Visit the GO RED website HERE. Get together with a few friends and give this game a try!
I am honored to be the artist featured over at the Documented Life Project this week. The theme for the month of September is Journaling with Photos, the art challenge this week was Photo Transfer, and the prompt was From...
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West Meets West is an initiative by Uillinn, launching in 2017 with an exhibition of the work of three leading artists from the west of Cornwall, Philip Booth, Matthew Lanyon and Tony Lattimer. The initiative will explore the historic links and similarities between the two seaboards – of Cornwall and west Cork – beginning with a shared megalithic […]
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