A huge thank you to the wonderful abstract artist Kim Rodeffer Funk,who I’ve recently become friends with. She has written a wonderful post about me today on her brilliant blog Creating Space. I thoroughly recommend this highly interactive blog. It is so thought provoking and inspiring. I love reading it every day.
I’d also like to […]
Royal College of Art Exhibition
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It was great to take part in this exhibition at the Royal College of Art and I was pleased to make a contribution to the Princes Trust. I was very pleased to be shortlisted as one of the […]
The Wall - painting
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I’m excited to announce that I am one of the finalists in the State Of The Art competition. It is in aid of the Prince’s Trust and the exhibition is taking place this Monday, 17th March between 12pm and […]
Is Tracy Emin a Claustrophiliac?
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At college yesterday, I was discussing with some friends how much I like camping. One of them was particularly unsurprised by this passion of mine considering my claustrophiliac tendencies! He then admitted to enjoying hunting around, exploring under […]
Claustrophila Blackboard
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I recently went to the exhibition of a heroine of mine: Louise Bourgeois at Tate Modern. It was fantastic! Her work is very psychoanalytical and is mostly based on her resentments from childhood. She’s well into her 90s now and still […]
I’ve discovered a great new way of attracting teenaged boys into my studio area. I’ve strung a giant red pom pom from the ceiling next to a post covered in porn images and they’re gathering around it like moths to a flame. Some have started doing tricks with the pom pom and some seem quite […]
Metropolitan Fags
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With the help of my wonderful tutor, Sean Ashton, I have noticed a recurrent orgiastic theme in my work. It’s not always as in your face as my transposition of an Allegory with Venus and Cupid though and that’s why it […]
Porn Post
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I’m intrigued with the way in which the studio space has been divided up at college and the negotiations and subtle battles which have ensued. I was lucky enough to bag a whole little room area which was dark at the […]
Transposition Allegory with Venus and Cupid
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This is my transposition drawing from Bronzino’s Allegory with Venus and Cupid. The original is a moralistic tale of forbidden sexual activity. I was asked to do a transposition of the masterpiece. I looked at definitions of […]
Cracking Up 2
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I saw the most wonderful film today. It’s written and directed by Matt McCormick and well worth a look. It has a very wry humour about it and although in many ways it’s ridiculous, describing graffitti removal as “one of […]
