Carlfriedrich Claus and Sprachblatt
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1w ago
Carlfriedrich Claus's sprachblatt or speech sheets, are forms of a writing/drawing mix, whereby text is fused with texture, and as you stand away from the image, texture begins to dominate text, but as you focus in, text becomes more important. So for instance at the scale of screen reproduction texture is more immediately apparent and the image can be read as a visual sound. The use of language in visual poetry was a specialty of Carlfriedrich Claus, who developed his work in the early 1960s. He believed that the 'naturalised individual’ ought to live in harmony with a 'humanised ..read more
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Johan Creten: Ceramics and drawing
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3w ago
  Johan Creten Johan Creten: Exhibition view Johan Creten was making ceramics before clay became a fashionable material for fine artists; so he commands a certain respect for working with these materials for so long. However it is his drawings that I want to showcase for this blog, especially as I'm also someone who makes ceramics and draws. However, unlike myself, he treats the drawn element of his work as a discrete area of practice. Each drawing is a stand alone image, one that often occupies the space of drawing in a similar way to how his ceramic objects occupy architectural sp ..read more
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R.I.P. Deanna Petherbridge
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1M ago
Camp Covid , 2020 - Deanna Petherbridge Deanna Petherbridge was one of those people who you could not avoid if you were interested in drawing. I met her several times and she always carried herself with great dignity and she provided a deep pool of intellectual resources from which you could tap into and draw from many different streams of thinking about drawing. I was therefore saddened to hear that she had recently died. I first came across her large pen and ink drawings in the 1980s and was impressed by her conviction that drawing was something that could carry serious ideas. At tha ..read more
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Stained glass: The leading sessions
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1M ago
The workshop sessions involving leading were done as a block because I was going to take up quite a lot of room and the sessions needed to be fitted in around other classes. I was meant to do this the first week of January, but I was still in recovery mode after being knocked down by a car. When a time slot was next available I had the beginnings of a chest infection; however because slots are hard to come by, I decided to carry on anyway as the cold out of which the infection grew was hopefully well past its contagious phase. This was probably not a good idea, as I found it hard to conce ..read more
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Measuring emotions and colour
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1M ago
I have for a while now been looking at interoception and the importance of 'feeling' or emotional experiences. However as I look into the Citrasutras, which are important writings on Indian aesthetics, I realise that once again, western aesthetic theory is way behind the times and that emotional value has been central to the way that painting has been thought about for hundreds of years on the Indian sub-continent. Shri S Rajam The six limbs (shad-anga) of traditional Indian painting , as given in the Chitrasütra are the following: Sädrusya (similarity); Pramäna (proportion); Rüpabhedä (diff ..read more
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The Lamed Vavniks
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1M ago
  The lamed vavniks or lamed vodniks are 36 people, who unknown to each other are saving the world. The legend of the lamed-vavniks has Talmudic origins. Lamedvavnik; a Yiddish term, is derived from the Hebrew word for thirty: 'lamed' and the Hebrew word for six: 'vav'. They combine to make thirty-six, the number of righteous individuals without whom the world would not exist.  In this time of terrible atrocities I decided that we needed to be reminded of the possibility of ordinary people doing good. Therefore I am presenting thirty-six portraits of ordinary peo ..read more
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What can art do?
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2M ago
I'm back worrying about what my work is useful for? Is art ever of any use? This is something I have had to wrestle with for well over 50 years now, and I think it's time to set out once again what types of answer have kept me going. I've also just been reemployed by the institution I have worked with for the last 48 years, as a research fellow. This will mean trying to show how my work as an artist is useful and that it has some sort of impact on society. Therefore the clearer I am about what is going on the better. I am very aware that many of the people that look at this blog are fine art s ..read more
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Stained glass: Session 10
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2M ago
Silver stained glass This was a short session held just before the Christmas break, whereby I mixed and laid down a silver stain that I had decided to use to bring two areas of Sooty's body into a yellow harmony with the rest of the figure. I had used the technique before and wanted to include the process in this much larger, complex piece as a reminder of its specific qualities. Silver stain is a chemical process whereby an oxide of silver is applied to glass, which when kiln fired, its ions migrate into the glass. A process that permanently stains the glass a transparent yellow. This ..read more
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Hybrid sculptures: The next stage
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2M ago
This is the second post of the year devoted to future plans, (my new year's resolutions) and it is focused on my thoughts in relation to more sculptural concerns. As well as working small, I make objects that could be considered as 'furniture' for the mind. I think of them as furniture, as these are objects made to have a similar size relationship with people and are designed to play out roles within a space in a similar way to how I remember the furniture in our family house when I was a boy. Like actual household furniture, they can support *'tranculments'; objects put in drawers or niches o ..read more
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Surviving
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3M ago
On the 23rd of December at approximately 16.15 pm I was knocked down by a car when crossing a road. I, as you must have surmised by now, survived the accident, which left me severely bruised, stiff, aching and sore but with no broken bones or permanent damage to internal organs. A nasty bump on the back of my head, led to the need for a head scan, but again there was no sign of internal bleeding or fracture. I was lucky, wrapped up in layers of clothing to protect me against the weather, (it was dark and raining), I was cushioned as I hit the road, a wooly hat taking the sting out of ..read more
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