This is a horrifying video, footage from USA helicopter firing on civilians because they thought a camera was a rocket launcher. Its the casual disregard for the killing that is most horrifying, especially when the target is a van with children come to pick up a wounded man. At no time does anyone point a…
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Cathie Pilkington sculpts children’s dolls, traumatised by life’s experience. The dolls are staged in archetypal situations, fairy stories from the dark side. A lot of the tableaux deal with female sexuality – delicately crafted, pouting labia are quite shockingly added to porcelain doll figures; grey school girl outfits mask libidos…
When I first saw images of this new statue – a child confronting the raging bull of capitalism on Wall Street – I loved it – I loved the graceful response to power. However, I ve been reading more about it. Firstly, the creator of the original bull statue is incensed. He wants the…
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Socially engaged art. OK, call it political art. Actually, all art is political. If it ignores social problems, then it supports the status quo by default. If we paint pretty flowers while our soldiers bomb, if we fail to protest, we enable these actions. Look at the art on Brighton’s…
Oil on Board. A couple of hours one evening around the ‘flower’ full moon, 10 May.
I copied some drawings from my sketchbook as an introduction to the two paintings in my 128 show, 2 May 2017. I think they help create a context and a meaning for my paintings without toooo many words.
Painting: Oil on Wood. A painting of a campfire, I thought I could see an incomplete chinese character for happiness described by the unburnt logs. My empathy and violence project led me to consider passion, intertwining, fire, volcanoes. So i dug this photo out and painted it in a couple of hours using Venetian red…
2 May 2017. I showed my painting of Venus at a private exhibition for the MA students on my course. The first question I was asked was why isn’t she blue? Well, Venus isn’t blue, as you can tell from looking into the night sky most nights of the year where she can be seen…
I just realised my Venus painting is a mandala. That discovery is the result of my lengthy essay ‘what is art’…. and the part 2 ‘beyond words’… Here’s a good link…. Mandalas are circular designs that reflect the wholeness of the person creating them. According to Carl Jung (pronounced Yoong), ” a mandala is the…
The essay I posted yesterday was supposed to help me think about the title of our year-end show “Before Words”. But I missed the point, and would like to correct that. I got that “Before Words” is about something primal, something intuitive rather than rational, but I ended up asking “What is art”, and then…
Before Words. or Art and The Word. What is (post modern) art? – 800 words v3 A reflective essay on the title of the MA Fine Art Brighton end of year show Can we imagine a society without art? A society without art seems purely functional, utilitarian, grey, without music or dance, joyless, with little…
In student crits in room 128 at Brighton Uni, Caitlin showed a short, simple and effective video that encouraged and inspired me to try video as way of using the ‘performative body’ as a medium in art, a way of engaging with the social and political using art. I’ve mentioned in other posts (Mosse, Haacke)…
Raphael by the Sea 