||Anna Beam||

It's not good bye

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Well, it kind of is. So long blogger. It's been real fun.
This blog is going to be sent up into the attic to collect dust for posterity because I've pretty nearly finished my first website and the new blog is up and rolling! The website still has some kinks to work out, but have come in and take a look around any way.

Here's the new blog address. See you there.
annabeam.com/blog

I'm also going to try my hand at this 'twitter' malarkey. You can jeer as I try to figure out how to tweet properly at:
www.twitter.com/anna_beam

{coming attractions}

2011-01-02T04:24:00.000-08:00

My ma and brother have been patient with me while I fumble around pretending to write code so keep your eyes peeled, soon I'll have a REAL website at annabeam.com.
Once it's all up and running I'll be blogging via the site.
Get your browsers ready!

HLD TGHT//////DAY 4

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photo courtesy of Sheila Blige

we're almost there! Opening is this friday 7-10pm, Soup Kitchen, Northern Quarter!

HLD TGHT//////DAY 3

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photo courtesy of Sheila Blige

we've been hanging out with some awesome creative people while installing our work for HLD TGHT in Soup Kitchen. Sheila Blige and his pup dog have been hanging out and documenting the show's progression everyday. You can see more of Sheila's photos here.

We'll still be around all of today and tomorrow, come say hi!

HLD TGHT//////OPEN STUDIOS

2010-12-13T01:19:00.000-08:00

Mornin'! If you're in central Manchester this week and you're hungry - for soup or art - pop along to The Soup Kitchen (Spear Street) to see Lois and I wielding power tools and tinkering with electronics as we install our new collaborative piece for HLD TGHT.

If you can't make it during the week to see us sweat and stress, the opening is on Friday the 17th from 7-10pm with a rockin' after party (live bands!) upstairs until 2am.

The open studio will be a great place to come and meet lots of fresh-faced local and national artists in a buzzing, creative atmosphere. HLD TGHT includes:
Agent (Birmingham), Newso (Birmingham), Ventza (London), Mr Penfold (Cambridge), Rong (Manchester) Deus (London), Melo (Manchester), David Bailey (Mount Pleasant),
Mooty, Fraser Chapman, Richard Birdseed, Dylan Hughes, Richard Shields, Vanechkaivanov Tank Petrol, Alex Humpries, Full Cream Ahead, Jim Pope, Ali Gunn, Alison Forde, Lois MacDonald, Anna Beam, Oliver Glasser, Lispencie, TXLW, Aliyah Hussain, Eleanor Marechal, Pavi, Alaska, Iwan Roberts, 30DZ, Box, G2, and more!

you can't win unless you're a capitalist. fact.

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ink on paper

Here's a detail of part of the Class Struggle board game box I remade for the Object Lessons exhibition at The Working Class Movement Library.

The exhibition opens this Thursday at 4pm, come on down!

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2010-11-30T03:15:00.000-08:00

Since our Berlin show I've been thinking about alternative ways to approach my 2D relief drawings. This week is all about simplifying.

HLD TGHT

2010-11-30T02:26:00.001-08:00

Here's a sneaky peak at a sample I've been working on for a collaboration between myself and Lois Macdonald for HLD TGHT (hldtght.co.uk).

Well, I say sample, but maybe a sample isn't a sample once it's consumed your dining room table. How we'll get it out of my house is still to be determined, but come the exhibition opening on the 17th December you can see how it'll all take shape in our post space age interactive installation.

more updates to follow!

stunt doubles

2010-11-18T16:13:00.000-08:00

photos courtesy of Fraser Chapman

I made these paper 'stunt doubles' based on objects from the Working Class Movement Library in Salford

Anna and Rebecca strike again

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Panoply!

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Photo courtesy of TXLW
photo courtesy of Sanna Helena Berger

Mariel and I did an interview for TOURIST MAGAZINE, which includes a video of the performance and some lovely snaps of us stressing out

something + nothing + everything

2010-11-03T10:26:00.000-07:00

A second collaboration with Rebecca Maeve Manley for

Fred Aldous, Lever Street, M1 1LW

RHIZOMATIC | London

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Departure Gallery
5-6 Boeing Way, Brent Road
Southall, West London.

Open until 12 November by appointment only.

PONGRESS | Berlin | opens 27 October 2010

2010-10-11T10:17:00.001-07:00

Helen Collett, Lois Macdonald and I will be teaming up once again to curate an exhibition about Manchester's Ping Pong Club and Mill24 for Berlin's first international PONGRESS, a week of parties, art and ping pong.

October 27 - 31 2010
Projektraum Atelierhauf
31-37 Schleiermacher Strasse
Kreuzberg

here's some more info:

The First International Ping Pong Congress: Pongress 2010
On the first day Berlin created Rundlauf, and saw that it was good.
On the second day, Berlin sent Rundlauf out into the world, saying ‘Explore. Have fun.’
From 27th – 31st October 2010 Rundlauf comes home, with tales of foreign lands and strange ways.
The First International Pongress brings teams of Pongers from London, Manchester, Newcastle and Washington to Berlin to celebrate the art of Music, Beer & Table Tennis.
Based at the Atelierhof KreuzbergGallery Pongress 2010 brings you five days and nights [will the exhibition be open in the daytime?] of international ping pong culture, including:
· An exhibition of ping pong contemporary art
· A Pongress Seminar
· 5 nights of beautiful Rundlauf
Each bar has given ping pong its own special twist . Each night Pongress will give you a different flavour of how the world plays ping pong.
Wednesday 27th October – Comet Ping Pong , Washington DC, USA.
A haven for contemporary art and great gigs, Comet Ping Pong bring their music and visuals to Berlin . Kid Congo Powers (of the Bad Seeds and Cramps) DJs with visuals from Ryan Hill, whilst we celebrate the roots of Berlin ping pong.
Thursday 28th October – Ping Pong Club, Manchester, UK
Ping Pong Club brings you the art of Ping Pong. An artist collective, they are bringing a Pong contemporary art exhibition and the best music in the North West.
Friday 29th October – Ping Pong, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Ping Pong takes Rundlauf and puts a wiggle in its walk and a giggle in its talk: Two-lives round the table, medals for the winners and all topped off with an hour of dancing to tunes you never knew you loved. Sexy, sexy ping pong.
Saturday 30th October - The Young Offenders Institute, London, UK
The YOI bring you Killer King Pong. 12 competitors per round. 1 Euro on the table each. Three lives. Winner takes all. One for the ping pong masters.
Sunday 21st October – The one, the only… Dr Pong, Berlin, Germany
The bar that inspired all the above hosts a Ping Pong seminar ‘Why Pong?’ [or have you thought of a proper name, oliver?] and then a night of Berlin’s finest ping pong action.
Many Cultures. One Ping Pong. Bring the love.
More info on the different bars:

The Young Offenders Institute - London
The Young Offenders Institute (YOI) has been running rundlauf nights at three London venues since 2007, and has taken the game to festivals, private parties and a host of other events. Expect a ping pong soundtrack that's eclectic but not pretentious, with rock, funk, soul, hip hop and electronica - 'anything with a bit of bounce'.

Ping Pong Club - Manchester
Ping Pong Club was started by artists at Manchester's Islington Mill studios as a way to help fund Art exhibitions. DJ's from Up The Racket and Your Momas cookin'.

Ping Pong - Newcastle
Ping Pong has been playing rundlauf at the Cumberland Arms in Newcastle since February 2007. Our DJs will play anything from Dualling Banjos to Hands in the Air House Music, with stops in between for Soul, Funk and even boys with guitars. We love to dance and pong.

'tea leaf'

2010-09-23T03:49:00.000-07:00

I'm collaborating with the talented Rebecca Maeve Manley on a window display for Fred Aldous, in Manchester's Northern Quarter, which is part of the Free For Arts Festival 2010. She's an inspired designer|art director and great influence on me... so much so that I've stolen her favoured mirror image trick to play around with some samples in my studio at The Grange. (sorry Rebecca)

Check out our 'Something and Nothing and Everything' window display from 1-8 October 2010

You can see our profile and more information about Something and Nothing and Everything on the Free For Arts Festival website.

Identify - summer youth workshops

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butterfingers

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| a test piece for Nexus' Identify youth workshops and exhibition|

recent experiences a and b

2010-08-11T15:03:00.000-07:00

Last month I got the chance to work with Punchdrunk during the run up to their production of The Duchess of Malfi in East London with the English National Opera. (Without giving too much away about the production) I helped make props, working on an apricot orchard in an office clock, a dead orchestra, and a snake made of electrical cables. Lots of electrical cables.

Prop making has really grabbed my interest, especially after spending a few days with Anna and Victoria - the prop makers/set designers behind Lightning and Kinglyface. I worked for them on installation of a 'contemporary' herb garden, expanding foam mushrooms, and balls of bile in an abandoned mansion on Belgrave Square for The Complete History of Food - a project brought to you by Bompas and Parr and Corvoisier. Visit Lightning and Kinglyface's blog here for more about this project and all the other adventures they get up to.

That's right...balls of bile.

time, please

2010-07-16T07:15:00.000-07:00

A couple new collages. Sure does feel good having time to draw again.

under a groove

2010-07-16T07:00:00.001-07:00

Working as a green grocer, I've established quite a collection of interesting (to me, any way) fruit and veg boxes. Now I'm trying to justify having them by working onto and into some.

Here's one work-in-progress. the more I work on it, the more it's making me think of George Clinton...so that's the direction it'll be taking from now on. This might be the direction all of my work takes from now on. funk is way more fun.

messin' in the studio

2010-07-16T06:54:00.000-07:00

coming soon : FREE summer youth workshops in central manchester

2010-07-15T03:20:00.000-07:00

At the end of July I'll be teaming up with Nexus Art Cafe and Sally Gilford of one69a collective to run a month-long stream of youth workshops, culminating in an exhibition at Nexus and a 'Celebration Day' festival curated by the youths.

'Watch this space' to see the development of our 3D mural made up of paper construction, screen printing, painting, and even embroidery.

!space battle!

2010-07-15T02:56:00.000-07:00

On June 29th I ran my first ever workshop with help from staff and 6th form students at Grange School. About 20 students from Wallerscote and Weaverham Forest primary schools came along to The Grange for the one day workshop during which they made and decorated their own space ships and star-scape backdrop pieces.

All the separate pieces were assembled into an epic space battle, complete with a few unlucky casualties.

it's a learning curve

2010-07-11T15:40:00.000-07:00

I wanted to make a stop-frame animation as a personal project, to experiment with processes of drawing.

There's no denying that I was learning the process as I went along, you can see the exact point where I get the hang of it. Unfortunately it's pretty late-on in the animation.

limited edition Mill24 t-shirts

2010-06-09T06:59:00.000-07:00

we've get a few t-shirts left from the Mill24 2010 exhibitions (see Lois cranking 'em out, above). Each t-shirt is hand printed and individually numbered, available in small, medium, and large.

T-shirts are £10 each. All proceeds from these tees go to the artists involved in the exhibitions.

go HERE to order yours today!

Mill24

2010-06-04T06:10:00.001-07:00

Mill24 has drawn to a close. Our final 24-hour installment happened on the 29th/30th May. You can see all the info about it here and some of my photos from April's show here. We're still in the process of sorting through May's documentation, so check back for more films and stills.

Mill24 has been an amazing opportunity as a first time curatorial project. Helen, Lois and I have been invited to stay on at Islington Mill, and we're talking about turning Mill24 into an annual event.

I thought I'd take a moment while catching my breath to show and tell the design work I did for all of the show's promotional material.

April's flier
May's Flier

Exhibition catalogue - separate editions for April and May

In addition to a catalogue with interpretive text, we gave visitors a map/timetable when they entered the show. This folded down to a handy A5 pamphlet for easy reference.

I hand screen printed all of the fold out maps and catalogue covers at one69a.
This saved us a lot of cash, and made both of these items into 'collectables.' I like spending time with them guys, and being involved in the process of physically manifesting the show, as opposed to just planning and emailing.

P.S. excuse my stumpy, unphotogenic fingers. Must remember to hire a hand model next time.

a new net

2010-06-04T05:26:00.000-07:00

00:00 - 08:00 ((welcome to our paper world))

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On Sunday 30th May Rebecca Manley and I collaborated for the first time during the wee hours of Mill24. We're amazed by what can be achieved by two sleep deprived people brandishing craft knives while balancing dunce caps on their heads. We're looking forward to collaborating again soon, who knows what we're capable of during normal waking hours.

Mill24 Press

2010-06-03T06:32:00.000-07:00

HERE

weekend edition

2010-05-19T05:44:00.000-07:00

Last weekend I was playing around with some basic stencil screen-prints during one of one69a's workshops and doing some embroidered graffiti on a friend's jeans that I was mending.

working in wood

2010-05-10T12:09:00.000-07:00

NEW MANCHESTER - exhibition opens FRIDAY

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I'll be exhibiting here alongside some of Manchester's FRESHEST talent. Come see and buy limited edition hand screen-printed posters, eat some good food, and hang out with the good folks at one69a studio.

Islington Mill
James Street (off Oldfield Road)
Salford
M3 5HW

systems I don't understand

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studio wall

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First timer

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role reversal

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I'm ready to be American again.

Mill24 Fundraiser March 25th. Ping Pong!

2010-03-08T05:14:00.001-08:00

"you got one that's cool, but, I needs anotha one."

2010-03-08T05:08:00.000-08:00

Our untidy Intern's studio at Islington Mill.

I haven't posted much about the work I'm doing here, as most of my time has been spent doing that work.

Luckily, you can catch up on the project's progress. Lois, Helen and I have got the Mill24 blog up and rolling. So far we've got the majority of our April artists up. Soon we'll have the May artists up too. So keep checking back, there are some talented artists in store!

Link:
MILL24
mill24.blogspot.com

Residing at Grange School

2010-03-03T09:12:00.000-08:00

Here's some shots of my new studio. I've just started at the Grange School in Cheshire as their first ever resident artist.

Still in the process of getting settled in, but soon I should be posting a lot more often with new work.

Stay tuned!

show at The Willesden Green Gallery, London

2010-01-23T09:04:00.000-08:00

I'll be exhibiting some drawings at the Willesden Green Gallery (closest tube station is Willesden Green).
The show is about Man's relationship with technology, and features work by ten artists working in a variety of media:
Paul Abbott
Anna Beam
Teodora Buba
Jeannelise Edelsten
Susan Eyre
Amelie Genstine-Charlton
Jane Hill
Tamar Lev-On
Luke Mitchell
Elspeth Ryder

This show is running alongside Minimalism Massimo, in the main gallery. This show features work by, amoung others, Turner Prize winner Martin Creed, world famous Joseph Beuys, Carl Andre, John Baldessari, John Latham, Jenny Holzer and James Ireland.

These shows are on until 4th February, come on down!

Other Projects

2010-01-18T10:32:00.000-08:00

It's been a while since I've posted up any new work. Once the Postcards from Dystopia exhibition finished another project I've been working on has taken over my time.

Mill24 is a project I'm working on for Islington Mill studios in Salford, Manchester. I'm curating a series of 24-hour exhibitions along with Helen Collett and Lois Macdonald. These exhibitions will be providing a new, accessable platform for emerging artists to exhibit, work closely with their audience and meet practitioners from other cities and countries.

These exhibitions will be happening April 24th, May 29th, June 26th and July 31st.

If you would like the chance to exhibit in Mill24, send a proposal to mill24@hotmail.co.uk

We've set up a blog for the project which will soon feature artist profiles and more detailed information about the exhibitions. We've got a lot of exciting artworks going in the shows including interactive sound art, performance, painting, immersive installations, illustration, video, and much more so stay tuned!

In February I'll be starting a residency at The Grange School in Cheshire, which should allow me more time to devote to making my own work.

Opening Next Week! Postcards From Dystopia at the Nolias Gallery

2009-11-24T08:14:00.001-08:00

I'll be in this group show down in London, come along to the opening on Dec 3rd if you can!

The work I'm showing (pictured, 1 of 3) illustrates a take on the 'multi-model-approach' used originally in sub-atomic physics to show that no one answer alone is correct, and it was exploited also by Robert Anton Wilson in his conspiracy theories surrounding the Illuminati. We're damned because of the state of politics. We are damned because we're sinners, and we're damned because the environment is. A lot of times in Science Fiction we're also screwed because extra terrestrials seem to have an inbuilt hatred for human kind. And let's not forget conspiracy theories.

My postcards for the exhibition show three stages of dystopia where the populous is 'taken for a ride' but can't determine why it's all going wrong. First their confidence in the state is built up by gifts of wealth and power from a benefactor, while underhandedly everything that supports life is taken away to fuel the cities. But maybe those crop circles that destroyed the farms and fires that burned the houses really the fault of aliens trying to destroy humanity? When all is said and done and they're left with nothing, yet the cities are still standing protected, they think that maybe this has really all been going as St. John prophesied. There's nothing to do but sit in the ash and wait for the fourth rider to come and burn down that false idol of benefactor and take them to heaven.

UNDERCOVER

2009-11-23T07:37:00.000-08:00

Apologies for the dark images, although there's spotlights on the work it was difficult to get good photos. The show at Nexus Art Cafe is on until 3rd January, so come on down!

...It's coming

2009-11-22T11:14:00.000-08:00

Keep your eyes peeled in your local arty bookstore, The Anthology Is coming out!

You can order it here too

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Marx Mask

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I'm going to be in an exhibition with other recent embroidery graduates at Nexus Art Cafe at the end of October called UNDERCOVER. This guy here is going to be part of the promotion for it. Keep you eyes peeled.

illuminati and the fourth rider

2009-09-07T04:59:00.001-07:00

I've been messing around on photoshop. just some doodles. I've never really used it to make drawings before....as you can probably tell.

other half

2009-08-24T05:01:00.001-07:00

Here's the other half of the submission. We were asked to design a logo for a green company or product, and I figured Hulme Community Garden Centre could use some publicity for the good work those guys are doing.

2009-08-24T04:26:00.000-07:00

Here's that post I deleted. I hadn't realised that the drawing had to depict 'real' technologies. oops.

Here's the original blurb I wrote to accompany the drawing:

Mountain Top Removal Mining is a method of mining being used in the Appalachian Mountains the literally blows up the tops of mountains to get at the seams of coal within rather than digging into the side.

What if in the future, when we're feeling regretful for all the damage we've caused, we decide to reconstruct the mountainscape as it once was?

Instead of piling rock and dirt on top of the mountains, we could use it as an opportunity to aid the pre existing communities in that area that had been affected by the mining by making green houses in the same topography as the mountain was.

These giant geodesic structures would first serve as a nursery for the indigenous hardwood trees and smaller plant life of that area, which they're presently having trouble regrowing because wildlife eat the seedlings.

When the trees are too big to be munched, kinetic powered machines that are half helicopter, half claw like those machines in arcades lift the trees out and transport them to the spot where they're to be replanted.

Once enough trees are replanted the structures could be used as community greenhouses, enabling the local communities to work together to grow food to sustain themselves.

Those purple pyramids are factories. Blowing up the top of a mountain produces a lot of rubble and waste which is dumped into the valleys, blocking up the waterways. To reclaim the waterways that have been blocked, these would be temporary brick making factories run by the community to use on their own building projects. The material is quarried from the stone that wasn't meant to be there in the first place.

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Edit.

I've deleted this post since I decided in the end to follow through with the Amelia's magazine project and that image is meant to be exclusive. If i don't get the job i'll post the images up again

YES IT IS at ANTIFREEZE

2009-07-25T14:01:00.000-07:00

this is a bit of delayed update.
What a funny day this turned out to be, man oh man. Let's call it a 'learning experience'. On the plus side though, we got to share our stall with the lovely folks from Camp Yellow!
So here's some shots of the diorama that I made. we were lucky they weren't as easily blown over as the marquees.

almost forgot the end of it!

2009-06-28T16:31:00.000-07:00

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.

2009-06-28T16:08:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-28T13:31:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-28T06:52:00.000-07:00

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

2009-06-27T06:44:00.000-07:00

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

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monday,nearly wednesday.

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dome drone

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readysteadygo

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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

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

white it is then,

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But of course I couldn't leave it alone.

gonna have to choose eventually

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things right now as they were

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Drop City, CO....on Mars

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three mountainscapes

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a tunnel. a portal

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this didn't really work, but the idea was to make the past recede back into the drawing while the future is pushed forward away from the wall.

mountains out of mole hills, or something like that.

2009-04-27T15:59:00.000-07:00

Although those bigger geodesic forms were more enveloping and looked more menacing, I'm trying to see if more can be done with smaller triangles.

These strips of paper serve as the sort of.... imagined trajectory of the goedesic domes being blown apart

sowing on the mountain

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Near Perpignan, France

making jagged domes

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'Freakout in a Moonage Daydream'

2009-02-03T11:38:00.000-08:00

This is my poster for a 15 minute seminar that I have to do about my work as part of the Embroidery degree.

I've made it a relief drawing in reference to the diorama that I'd been planning in the last project. I had no idea how to construct this sort of pseudo frame, so it turned out wonky. but oh well. people sign up to the seminar by writing their names on the red triangles under the poster

The title is ripped from that David Bowie song.

trying to work out ways to use stitch and fabric as a drawing media

2009-02-03T10:55:00.000-08:00

Here's an illustration I've done for Harlan Ellison's 1968 short story 'I Must Scream, and I Have No Mouth.'

In the story, a supercomputer made during the Cold War for peace switches and goes on a spiteful killing spree ridding the world of all humans except five. It's kept this group kept alive inside its 'belly' for 109 years so that it will always have a few humans left to torture.

This illustration is of a point when one of the characters, Benny, who is covered in scars from radiation poisoning, tries to escape and is made blind by the computer.

Uplifting stuff.

If you can't buy it, make it

2009-01-26T13:22:00.000-08:00

I couldn't find any good Sizzla t-shirts for sale anywhere so decided to make my own ghetto, appropriated versions (please don't sue me)

One's just Sizzla. The other is Sizzla and Capleton and Lutan Fyah.
Now we'll be rockin' for true.

This is the most straight forward way I know how.

2009-01-17T04:19:00.000-08:00

(This is the 201 TV set (1969) designed by Richard Sapper that I mentioned in the drawing.)

Here is the drawing I've made for the unit assessment next week. I'm hoping that this walk through storyboard type display will explain my thought process more clearly, since that's criticism that I've gotten before.

The photos above the drawing are of the 3D constructed drawings I'd made earlier in the unit.

And there's a drawn plan off to the side of the display that I made figure out how to arrange the wall drawing. I Didn't end up following it, but it seemed to make the whole thing a bit more cohesive.

This is the most straight forward way I know how. II

2009-01-17T03:51:00.000-08:00

hello 2009

2009-01-10T08:03:00.000-08:00

Books on tape: a story about Inter planet Janet and her insatiable lust for martian men. As read by a generic mad professor.

DIY layout

2008-12-19T04:28:00.000-08:00

today

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yesterday

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sunday

2008-12-16T12:13:00.001-08:00

space scenarios

2008-12-10T13:21:00.001-08:00

That was fun, what else you got for me?

2008-12-08T15:52:00.000-08:00

The opening of Yes It Is went better than we could have hoped! Thanks to everyone who came, drew, drank, and made it a lovely evening.

These are images of some guests drawing at the start of the event and the work that I submitted for the show. To see some of the other artists work go to:

Lora Avedian

Rebecca Manley

Alex Humphreys

Mariel Osborn

Georgina Sullivan

Laura Gee

Katie Mason

down sizing again

2008-12-07T05:57:00.000-08:00

some new drawings using paper, photos, stitch samples and some of the fabric prints I did last week