Archive for the 'writing' Category

Vicken Parsons

Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

I was very impressed with the Vicken Parsons show at the Alan Cristea Gallery on Cork Street. She makes small, intimate paintings on board using thin layers of oil paint. Most of the work in this show was of interiors. The diminutive size of the paintings belies the scale of the spaces they engender in [...]

wall drawings

Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

Sol LeWitt was a pioneer among the minimalists and conceptual artists in the late 60´s and early 70´s. He restricted himself to horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines and worked within this concept thru out his career. He investigated every imaginable line in geometric shapes, and colour. “In my case, I used the elements of these [...]

Taking a line for a walk – Performative Geometries

Friday, March 9th, 2012

Very excited about the new work I am making, exploring the use of using GPS data to make imagery (see post below for examples). I’ll be posting up a movie made from these stills in few days time, so watch this space. In this work I wont to show my love of this place but [...]

Creative Archive

Thursday, December 1st, 2011

Over the last three years I have been working with Poole museum archives and with archives at Devon Records Office. Through this working with archival material has become a bit of an obsession within my artistic practice. It is a passion, a commitment. As my friend Luís Antero, said; “tradition is like a huge file and a stimulating point of departure for exploration and work. One can use it to build entirely new things.”

experimental JOEworks