photocopy on paper, 1189mm x 841mm, 2009-ongoing. A series of posters to promote and encourage the recipient to organize, and audiences to join, a life class. Part of a forthcoming project "This & That" International Mail Art Swap, curated by Christine Wong Yap. More updates soon.
found books, tape, correction fluid and pencil, 2009-ongoing. I mended an old copy of "A Handbook of Anatomy for Art Students" with another copy, replacing tears to pages, deleting personal inscriptions, and restoring censored photographs.
installation view part of the exhibition "Preparatory Ways" Transmission Gallery Glasgow 31st March to 25th April 2009. Click on the title to visit Transmission Gallery website.
video 5min, 10sec loop, 2009. Using a copy of the book "Cinema is 100 Years Old", I try to make the pictures in the book come to life...
installation view of "Techniques of the Observer" 2009, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, part of the exhibition "Preparatory Ways" Gallery Weekend 18-19th April 2009. During the video being played, the invigilator was asked to draw from the audience viewing the video. Thank to Transmission Gallery staff.
video 35min,20sec loop. Edited footage of "Life Class: Gregynog, Powys" performance documentation from the viewpoint of the life model. The viewpoint depicts the actions of a drawer, a photographer and a video maker as they observe from the life model. Drawings made from the performance are interspersed throughout the narrative for every click or activation of a camera.
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video stills of performance documentation. Date: 27th April 2009, Venue: Tithe Barn, Lincoln, Model: Liz Marshall, Participants: Emma Osbourn, Heather Muddiman, George Hardy, Peter Skilton, Tom Cretney, and Thomas Cuthbertson, Thanks to Richard Black. Participants were asked to work collaboratively to create a narrative through a series of drawings of the life model. The drawings were show as they were being made, in real time and straight to a CCTV video camera. The CCTV footage was projected into a lecture theatre to an audience.
video stills of performance documentation. Date: 7th May 2009, Venue: Manchester School of Art, Manchester, Participants: Nicola Selsby, Lucas Thomas Thompson, Sam Whitehead, Elizabeth Atherton, Oliver Crabtree, Hannah Exhall, Jessica Joy Donnelly, Lucy Plimmer, Grace Hamilton, Max Skofic, Pheobe Smith, and Angela Cresswell, Model: Marissa Burgess, Thanks to Louise Adkins. Participants were asked to work collectively to develop a narrative through a series of drawings of the life model. The drawings were shown as they were being made, in real time and straight to video camera.
