standing up

Speaking to someone recently they asked that annoying question of 'what art do you like?'

being slightly inebriated I came up with this

The inventiveness of modernism
The investigations of Conceptualism
The boldness of the New York school

I was quite pleased, sounds like a good recipe.



How ones ability to make art manifests itself is a source of frustration and interest for all those involved in the practice of making. This year having worked full-time for most of the year in an arts based environment, has allowed me to think about work whilst not actually spending as much time constructing. What I have found is a consolidation of my practice and a surfacing of ideas into concreate things that i can focus on.

A confidence and belief in what it is i am doing. This kind of reflection on the work through allowing it to exist without the need for a constant revolution of the work, can and may seem contradictory to my usual desire for the new experience within the work. But one thing I remember one of BA tutors saying is that Art in its very nature is a contradictory thing.

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I guess how might it be done, the way to continue to build a fruit full space for ones self within a practice of value. To learn the ability of taking your time and the importance of time as a judgement tool in what you do. How and what is the element of importance within what you do and how does this element manifest itself within the work.

For myself each time a new work or series is begun it is something of coming anew to the process and questioning the methods previously used. then as the process is in flux noticing and adjusting to or againist those elements that come forth that are of my 'style'.

For the work I make always has a style by now, it is nearly always abstract and constructed, of basic materials.

Self Defence

sometimes you image you want it to come out of you like you thought it did as a teenager, and then you realise that we have stopped that. think of jackson pollack as the epitome.