almost forgot the end of it!

Some photos of the finished degree show piece.
These are pretty crappy. When my folks came to see the show my dad took some good photos, so I'll post those when he gets back from their road trip.

portrait of the artist as a book.

this book was made as a hypothetical and aspirational pack that I would send to galleries to introduce myself and my work. It's aimed at Deitch Projects, and focuses on one project, walking through the research, methods of drawing (thinking), use of materials and examples of how I work within a space.

It's accompanied by a cd of photographs of my sketchbooks from the same project.

It's not slick, there are definitely wonky margins, but in some ways I prefer this to having a book professionally bound and I certainly enjoyed the challenge.

backdrop

Here's a dodgy spliced image of the background I'm working on for my diorama which includes gouache, stitch and collage. what I'm proposing in my diorama is an immersive alien landscape contained within a geodesic dome, under attack from some otherworldly force. the concept ain't great yet, I'm figuring out the narrative as I go along as dictated by the forms that are created in the making process.

click on the image to see it bigger.

independence Day Art Car Boot Sale

I'll be celebrating this Independence Day with the Brits, that is celebrating the day they finally got rid of us Yanks. I'll be exhibiting in ANTIFREEZE at the CHIPS building in Ancoats, Manchester alongside three great women. Once again under the name YES IT IS, Georgina Sullivan, Lora Avedian, Laura Gee and I will be selling original drawings and prints, as well as exhibiting handmade dioramas of hypothetical installations. come on down and discover what the hell an art car boot sale entails.
Take a look at our statement on the Antifreeze blog:

http://antifreeze2009.blogspot.com/2009/06/yes-it-is.html

and here's more info about the event:

Contemporary Art Manchester (CAM) launches its inaugural project Trade City; a dynamic, international exhibition in Will Alsop's iconic CHIPS building, supported by Arts Council England and Urban Splash and in conjunction with Manchester International Festival 2009. Introducing a number of Manchester and UK premieres and stimulating new commissions from regional and international contemporary artists, Trade City has generated new forms of exchange across the city's contemporary art scene.

As part of Trade City, partner organisation Contents May Vary presents ANTIFREEZE, Manchester's very first art car boot fair, which sees over sixty artists and artist-run projects display work in car-boots as an alternative exhibition space. ANTIFREEZE is about the high-end art market delivered within the format of low-end trade. It is the grass-roots answer to hugely commercial art fairs allowing independent and non-commercial practitioners to explore ideas of value, exchange and independence with artists and artist-led organisations responding to the physical, social, economical, geographical and literal situation.

Taking in sculpture, printing, drawing, video, performance, installation, photography and collage, Contents May Vary’s ANTIFREEZE offers extreme clowning, trespassed pictures, Nazi poster art, Kun(S)t stylings, Tranny Bingo, naff music, Regal defacement, automobiliart, a gift shop, zines, hunting women, masked men from the woods, black dogs, Kipling, turd polishing, Mainlining (Intercity), dogs in hot cars, Nail art (modern), vernacular diamonds and bread, neatly packaged in the car park of a building lifeless without art.

Manchester's first art car boot fair will be a stroll through the embodied thoughts of over 60 artists from across the UK and beyond, who through no fault of their own have been put in a place beneath and above many others in the art industry. We have given them a platform to vent their airs and graces, woes and praises, present their skills and collections, to succeed and fail, to make money and lose faith, to spend hours in traffic getting here and minutes setting up their work without our help, just so people they don't know can spend seconds judging them on it.

first press

I've been featured in a review of the BA Embroidery degree show, check it out on a-n. http://www.a-n.co.uk/interface/reviews/single/542640

tuesday

monday,nearly wednesday.

dome drone

readysteadygo

here's a few snapshots of the wall collage I'm slowly installing. Three years of embroidery will all be over come Wednesday, so I'm taking my time and trying to savor these last few days. Besides, the final installation of work is always my favourite part of a project.
I haven't measured the space yet. It's bloody large though, I can tell you that much. Intimidating at first but I'm slowly getting accustomed to it.

gosh, it's been a while

lots has been going on. lots to share with you. sleepy now though, so this is all you get. a tasty morsel.