Michael Craig-Martin

 Image from here: http://www.cartazini.com/craig-martin.html

Great video interview with Michael Craig-Martin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/video/2012/may/25/michael-craig-martin-damien-hirst-video

Art House Coop Sketchbook Project

   

Here is the sketch book that I completed for the 2012 Art House Coop Sketchbook Project.  You can view the digitised version of it here, along with all the other participants.  The tour of the sketchbooks comes to London on October 12th - 19th in Canada Water Library - details here.  After the tour ends it will be archived in the Brooklyn Art Library where anyone can visit and take a look. 

I stitched through my book so it cannot be opened or used in any traditional way.  I wanted to take away part of its use to open a discussion about how we use books. 

Standard Time

 

Image from Vvork

The image above is of a piece of work called Standard Time by Mark Formanek (in collaboration with Datenstrudel)

A quote taken from the Standard Time site:

„Standard Time is a performance lasting exactly 24 hours and recorded on film. However, this film is much more than just the recording of an action, the recording of something that has taken place in the past; it is also a clock. A clock for use right now and in the future which, as each day goes by, extends further into the past, but is still up-to-date and punctual”.
Mark Formanek
 

Here is the link to the Standard Time site with a good video on it.

Wondersite Exhibition at the Japanese Embassy

                                             

The group show that I am part of opens at the Japanese Embassy, Piccadilly, London (Green Park station) today.  It includes responses from 10 artists to a shared trip & residency to Tokyo for the month of March this year.  My work is pictured below responds to a fireman's helmet and gloves I saw at the Folk Craft Museum in Tokyo, and also to the use of double stitches which I encountered a lot.  The uniform was actually quilted cloth, hence the marks on the helmet I have made referencing the stitching on the original.  I was very interested by the knotting and other thread/rope/textile based ideas I saw there, both in a historic context and everyday.  Also in the use of dyes, colour and pattern.  The smaller blue arm piece references a pattern used in the wood work of a window, the larger arm piece looks at the bamboo fencing I saw in a lot of places.