tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71249416792128120752024-02-07T19:52:52.268-08:00Sue Gough - ArtistWorking from my studio at home and my painting studio just outside the village of Stonegrave, North Yorkshire, I am a painter, occasional print and artists' book maker. Drawing is important to my practice. Sue Goughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16204489139893416187noreply@blogger.comBlogger226125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124941679212812075.post-86296944636113402092019-04-23T08:29:00.000-07:002019-04-23T08:29:05.512-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Life is incredibly serendipitous sometimes; on the day that I had finally reclaimed my studio at home I had an email from Natasha, a student at York St John's college, asking if she and some of her peers could come over for a visit!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Previously, the studio at home had been impassable - a mix of left overs from the anti fracking campaign and general stuff from home that had just been chucked in there as I simply didn't have time to deal with it all was piled up and you could not get through the space safely!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, today I was ready with soup for lunch to keep them going, a tidy studio and work laid out for them to see. They were a lovely bunch of people and it was interesting to hear about their own work as well as to show them mine, even though I had to explain that there is very little recent work to show them because of the time it is taking to recover from our campaign and get my head back into a place where I actually feel able to make new work. I am not a massive sketch book user but they were all interested in looking at the ones I do have - I also have a goodly collection of empty ones; you never know, I may even fill in a few of these soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I am ready! I have 2 very large paintings started some years ago that I aim to finish this year as well as complete the 3D pieces I started when I was on the AA2A scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">To get myself back into the work making mode, I have been attending some printmaking workshops and I will do another post about those shortly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was nice to be able to talk to these students about my work and to feel part of the art community again; I have really missed it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It is over two years since my last blog post; I am slowly regaining my equilibrium. And where have I been? Well, the campaign to prevent fracking on my doorstep and throughout the UK, is where. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It has been an immensely rewarding, exhausting, confusing, at times scary and also wonderful time. Along with my fellow protectors, we succeeded in preventing Third Energy from fracking at their site in Kirby Misperton, Ryedale, North Yorkshire. Last Christmas saw me on the brink of utter despair and exhaustion; then in the new year, Third Energy left. I was elated, then ill; the result of the endless days starting sometimes as early as 5.30 am, standing at the gates, in hail, snow and sunshine, extreme cold and heat. But that is what protectors do; we are not a "travelling circus of protesters", as Claire Perry, <span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0c0c;">Minister of State at the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy </span>recently labelled us, we are for the most part locals. Yes, we were helped and supported by protectors from further afield, who have more experience than us and we are eternally grateful for their advice and energy, their hugs and wisdom but most people at those gates every day came from Ryedale or nearby and were, like me older than we care to admit.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I volunteered to be the liaison person for the local community and the protection camps. There was the original camp near the junction with the A169 and then, as matters became more serious and we needed 24 hour monitoring, a camp on the verge of the road at the gates to the site itself. At the moment it all seems like a dream; I cannot remember everything I did to help the campaign run smoothly I certainly rose at dawn and had breakfast for the protectors ready at the gates in the early days of that camp forming. I was one of the people that locals could come to for advice about how best to support the camps and of course, I cooked and made cake! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A highlight was the Christmas meal we cooked and served to the first protectors at the main camp in 2016; it is still talked about by those who tucked into it! My proudest moment was a year ago, last September, when I participated in the first lock on at the gates as part of the "Bat Girls" protest, to bring to public notice the plight of the local bats, should fracking go ahead. It was of the utmost importance that a local person should participate in the first non-violent direct action at those gates. Of course, I was arrested; I knew I would be. It was a physically painful yet joyful experience and I do not regret it for one moment despite being found guilty last May of Obstructing the Highway and given a 12 month conditional discharge and directed to contribute towards prosecution costs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In the run up to all this, I have lobbied, spoken at rallies, written to my MP, written objections to planning applications, held meetings for local people, been sworn at and told to "F**k off back to where I came from", ironic as I live about a mile from the well site at KM8. I have attended endless meetings to discuss our strategic planning, baked endless cake, raised money for the campaign and supported other Frack Free groups across the country. I continue to do so when I can. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have witnessed police behaviour so brutal that it took my breath away with its complete disregard for protector's safety as they facilitate this awful industry. The police have become nothing less than the security force for this industry, a sad and dangerous state of affairs. Recent developments have shown the complete disregard for our democratic rights to protest with judiciary listening to impassioned presentations from protectors regarding the ecocide of this land, (which incidentally, is not a crime in this country or anywhere on the planet, as far as I am aware) and showing sympathy, but finding them guilty anyway. The injunctions against protest and protesters that all the oil and gas companies are now bringing, aided and abetted by the civil judiciary, to prevent any protest outside their sites and at the sites of their suppliers is a dangerous erosion of people's democratic rights to protest. It will not stop us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Since early this year, after Third Energy left the area, (we are constantly alert for any signs of a return), I have been slowly and surely regaining my health and life. I have spent much more time with my beloved grandsons; I have been mentally unable to write any documents, my brain just will not function. And now, here I am; still recovering slowly and surely and regaining my enthusiasm for "normal" things while at the same time supporting other groups fighting fracking where and when I can. I should add that this is not a unique situation I am in; all of my good friends and colleagues have found themselves feeling much the same as me. This campaign is a terrible and glorious thing to be involved with.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have done no drawing, painting or printmaking; the most I could manage was to sit in quiet contemplation and crochet. I felt that the world could do without more paintings and prints, but a blanket or scarf is always useful! But now, I am beginning to emerge from this fog and starting to think of how to use my experiences in new work. It had been creeping up on me for a long while, and now I feel sure that my work should say something about our struggle to regain democracy and protect the land. How many more pretty paintings of landscapes do we actually need, after all? And this is not to denigrate artists who make such work, this is just my personal opinion at this moment in time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Camp, winter was awful! I was so glad I didn't have to live on it like the hardy protectors. I was very glad to have my warm home and bed just a mile up the road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">near Easingwold and facilitated by Patrick Smith, <a href="https://www.psmithstudio58.co.uk/">https://www.psmithstudio58.co.uk/</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The first was in October, entitled "Following in the Footsteps of Rembrandt", and was an etching workshop. Working in that wonderful space, I felt a huge weight lifting from my shoulders and the realisation that I was re-entering my rightful world. Please do visit the web site for this wonderful space, there are amazing courses available and the exhibition space is wonderful. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Meanwhile, the weather has turned very wintry and my studio is not a place to be during the cold, so I will be quietly attempting some drawing, maybe doing a bit of printmaking or book making in my smaller space at home with determined plans to be back in my messy space come next Spring. Wish me luck. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">PS: I have quite a number of books on making simple book structures but I could not resist purchasing another one and I am so very glad I did. It is full of information and great book structures. It is called "bound 15 beautiful bookbinding structures", by Rachel Hazell, pub. Kyle Books. Well worth buying a copy. Rachel's mark making and ink work on the covers and pages of her books very much appeals to me as I utilise similar in some of my own work.</span><br />
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This first third of my year has been somewhat fraught to say the least; a birth, a wedding, illness and a death. . . . not all of which I have been prepared for and certainly not the best situation to be in when trying to make new work for the AA2A scheme, which has suffered as a consequence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">However, it is all part of life's rich tapestry, I am beginning to resurface from it all and trying to be kind to myself and not plan any major new things for the whole of the rest of this year. My original plans for the work will get made eventually, and will hopefully get shown in some galleries once I have the energy to sort it out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">What I am showing for this exhibition is a compilation of my research so far in the form of 3 banners on Chinese paper. I have managed to produce something that is visually arresting, I think, and which has masses of information when you look closer; something I have always aimed to achieve.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">It was such a privilege last Saturday, to attend the public opening of Basil Beattie's exhibition <i>When Now Becomes Then: Three Decades</i>, </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">at Midlesbrough Institute of Modern Art. The exhibition runs until 12th June and I heartily recommend it to all people interested in painting and the development of visual art in this country. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I completely agree with Mel Gooding's remark at the end of his conversation with Basil that it says something about the cultural state existing in this country today that a show of this magnitude by one of our great painters has taken so long to come about. I have followed Basil Beattie's work since I was a student, not always closely, but he is one of the painters that I have long admired and a go to for affirmation that painting with gesture and guts and interesting imagery is still a worth while thing to strive for.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">When I am visiting a major exhibition of a painter I admire, I like to walk through the galleries quite quickly to start with, to gain an understanding of the sequence. I then go round again more slowly and meander backwards and forwards, looking at the work, noting formal points of interest, the use of motifs, colour and how the works communicate with each other in the space. While I do this, I sometimes jot down words or phrases that spring to mind about the works; it helps me to connect the works I am looking at with my knowledge of art history and experience. Then I read the accompanying texts and make note of dates when the paintings were made; I don't like my opinion of the works to be influenced by the texts until I have done this but I am happy to have my thoughts altered and expanded upon once I have had a chance to form my own connections. When I say connections, I mean that I like to work out where the artist may have responded to works from the past, how the works connect with artists working today, how the artists' work has developed over time and the philosophical and psychological connections that may exist. I am not an expert on philosophy; I wish I was, its connections to art are strong, lets face it, because art is about life. I am constantly trying to improve my knowledge of philosophy but I can never remember what I have read!</span><br />
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<i>“The art of painting… leads you to thoughts and ideas that you may not have had if you didn’t start painting. You have to know how to deal with them. A lot of people know exactly what they want to paint so they have to get it right. In<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"> my case I recognise it when I see it, when I feel it. It may be that I’ve got the bare bones but I have to put the flesh on and that’s a very different matter. It may be that it becomes something else during that period.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to Wendy, for a frank and informative talk outlining the basics along with some of the pitfalls and for pointing out that there is joy to be had in the independence that being self employed can bring to an artist's career. And how easy it is to fill in a tax return, once it has been done a couple of times. The links Wendy supplied were not all known to me either, so that was also very helpful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, I am in a strange position when it comes to self employment; I have, since I moved to North Yorkshire, never earned even a £1000 profit in a year. I was teaching part time and paying my taxes before I moved here. I hasten to add that I am not a dishonest person trying to avoid paying tax. I have been on a few courses about being self employed and my current situation simply does not fit any of the normal career outlines. Namely, I moved here because my husband was offered a job and have not been "employed" since although I have worked as a volunteer at a gallery. I make work that I want to make, because my lovely partner told me it was my turn to develop my career; I know this means I am lucky. So, I <i>do</i> make the work I want to make, what interests me, and which very rarely sells. I am so below the tax threshold, it simply is not worth me wasting HMRC's time with declaring myself as self employed. I am what would be termed a "hobbyist", but not in the derogative term that most people use the word. I just do not make my living from my work; it does not mean that I am not a consummately professional artist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was lucky to be able to chat with Wendy while we waited for our trains home about this and I was heartened that she agreed with me that declaring myself to be self employed was not necessary at this point. I had been feeling a little uneasy about the whole thing, so it was good to know from someone who knows what they are talking about, that I am not doing anything wrong and that I should just keep going with developing my work. Thank you Wendy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I just wish the well known local artist that attacked me about this a few years ago, in front of a lot of other local artists, saying that what I was doing was illegal and that I was despicable, had thought to talk to me first. Oh, and maybe check her facts. It's a shame too, because she has refused to acknowledge my presence ever since, even though it was she, not I who was in the wrong. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have not begun to make any final works for my AA2A project yet; I am still busy collecting material to incorporate into it. My aim is to combine text, image and mark making to create a visually interesting surface in three dimensions. The use of print and paint on Chinese paper will have a beautiful way of diffusing light and creating shadows, depending on where it is shown and how it is draped or hung. This will mirror the hoped for quality of the acrylic piece I am planning as part of the trio of free standing pillars. I am already thinking about other venues where the work could be shown but not approached anywhere as yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am planning to make at least three free standing pillars that represent the qualities of earth, air and water. (This is the working title of the piece). These are the "holy trinity" of our life support system that will be threatened if fracking is allowed to take place. One pillar of steel sheet (homage to Middlesbrough steel manufacturing as well as a nod to my original ballot box piece), one pillar of ply wood and one of acrylic sheet, all painted and printed upon with a variety of text, imagery and mark making to produce an interesting surface. The work is not meant to be polemic; it is my personal response to the threat that fracking poses to the land, water and air where I live, and beyond.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I put out a call last Friday to local people fighting fracking to provide me with a few sentences each about how they feel about it. I have had ten responses back already and am hopeful of a lot more; this community engagement aspect has grown out of my continued thinking process about the whole body of work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am also continuously surprised at the connections I am making with ideas within the project; I have already mentioned textile construction, its relation to "taking a line for a walk" in drawing and recently the ideas of darning to repair holes has become a metaphor that I have begun to speculate on. Recent research into chemicals used in the fracking process or those that are brought up to the surface of the earth as a result of fracking has startled me; the diagrams of the different chemical bonds looked very similar to crochet diagrams!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Attending the recent lecture at Teesside University by Alice Fox was interesting; her method of collecting, refining, thinking and producing, have certain parallels within my current work. Also; her absolutely beautiful artists' books (I have been lucky enough to own one for a few years now), constantly inspire me. Alice self publishes books as well; kind of catalogues of each body of work she produces; this is something I need to seriously think about too because, like her, I simply do not manage to sell many of my original pieces and as Alice pointed out, everyone can manage to buy one of those for a few pounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I may not be around Teesside University campus very much during February; my daughter is due to have her first baby in about a week. I will however continue to collect material together and to make small drawings so that when I am able to be back, I can get going with producing the final works.</span></div>
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Sue Goughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16204489139893416187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124941679212812075.post-15754652901133840702016-01-20T14:13:00.002-08:002016-01-21T07:05:55.897-08:00AA2A project research<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">At the presentation I gave to students at the beginning of my placement, one of the students asked me if I would use fracking as my subject matter. At the time, I said no, although it was a possibility. I have since decided it is too rich a seam to ignore. Excuse the pun!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I am only at the research stage in terms of content and deciding on how the art works will be made and look but I do know that the work will be presented in three dimensional form.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">All four of we AA2A artists were required to present the work we have made so far in an interim exhibition in the walkway of part of the Fine Art complex at Teesside, which we put up this Tuesday 19th. I have completed some prototype artists' books along with collecting lots of information, quotes and sketches linked to my thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I decided to put it all up on the boards as a reconstruction of my studio wall during researching the project using tape, just as I do when working and gathering material. I'm hoping it gives the students an insight into my working practice; it has certainly helped me to appraise where I am so far, to see some interesting connections and to make some decisions about the way forward with the experimentation and continued research.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some time ago, (it feels like ages), I wrote and sent off my application to participate in the AA2A scheme at Teesside University. I wrote my application to be considered for both a MIMA affiliated place (AA2A plus) and a standard Teesside uni one. There are only four places available, two of which are the MIMA supported ones.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">With great trepidation and really awful nerves, I made a terrible presentation at MIMA on Thursday Ist October. The panel were really interesting people, I liked them but I was shaking so much I couldn't think straight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All of us were told prior to our presentations that the caliber of entrants this year had been exceptionally high, so as the week passed and I had not heard anything, I assumed that I had not been successful. I was disappointed, but not surprised because I knew I had not done myself justice; nerves always get the better of me in these situations. At the same time, I was clinging to the fact that my application had been of a high caliber! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today, Saturday 10th October, I had a letter from Teeside University:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was a bit disappointed at first, after all the stress; I had really wanted the opportunity to work with MIMA, but now that I have had time to think about it I am really pleased to have been offered this amazing opportunity, and very grateful. After all, there were only four places available and I have won one of them!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am looking forward to having the opportunity to develop some of my ideas into three dimensions, both in painting, print and book form. I think it will be a very fulfilling time and I am very much looking forward to using the library and attending lectures too. I read in the additional information that I will also have access to the arts materials shop, so I'll be able to buy some reasonably priced paper and other materials, always very welcome.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Part of my work at Teesside will involve keeping a blog and as soon as I have details, I will post a link so that anyone interested in keeping up with what I am doing will be able to do so. I am also very much looking forward to talking with students and hosting a studio visit, where they can see where I work and ask me questions. I am not so much looking forward to giving presentations, but I'll grit my teeth and get over it! Who knows, I might improve my technique and get to like the process. . . </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A rare day off today. Up late, then into York for some lunch and a quick visit to Priestley's at 36 Bootham to drop some images in that will be used for publicity for my upcoming show. I took a look at Andy Dalton's show which is still on; it is very good. The gallery has been improved since I was there last and Andy's work looked fabulous. I still hanker after owning the big print by him that is in the window. <a href="https://www.facebook.com/thewhiteroom36">https://www.facebook.com/thewhiteroom36</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While there, chatting to Sarah, I was surprised and delighted to learn that I had sold a drawing! It is one of my small studies that I left with the gallery after the three woman show last year. This news was a real boost; it will cover the cost of the cards I've just ordered to sell alongside the prints of my work at the show. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The last few weeks have been extremely stressful; frantic activity on the anti fracking campaign as we near the deadline for objecting to the application by Third Energy and trying meanwhile to prepare for a presentation for something I have been shortlisted for and nearly caving in with exhaustion and frustration with all the work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, on Thursday I delivered my presentation. Not well, but I did it. I suppose I can only hope that my passion and excitement about delivering my ideas and the opportunity to grow creatively that the placement would give me shone through. I am not sure when I will hear if I have been successful or not; competition was fierce and the applications, we were told, were of an exceptionally high caliber. Fingers crossed then. . . .</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The day after making my presentation, I attended another seminar. this time organised by Chrysalis Arts entitled Contemporary Artists in Rural Contexts. It was a great opportunity to catch up with some of my favourite people and I met a few more rather lovely ones too. The first half was pretty good although one of the speakers was rather unprofessional in the way he criticised the project of two artists and as good as named them by showing their work, which I felt was rather spiteful and unnecessary. All the other presenters were very interesting. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wonder, what the outcome of this day will be? There was certainly no mention of any follow up of the day or intention to study the issues in any more depth to produce a published analysis as far as I can recall. It was all very unsatisfactory, especially after my fantastic experience at the half day seminar/discussion with people in Wakefield organised by Axisweb recently. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Never mind, I have an exhibition to sort out now and there is no use dwelling on these things. And I have sold a drawing, did I say? Hah!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A very disappointing meeting last night with nothing particularly resolved regarding whether Ryedale ArtWorks will continue as an organisation along with a flippant, stupid remark made to me by a member about my work with the anti fracking movement has left me feeling yet again really fed up. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">However, this morning saw me in Wakefield for 9.30 am, at the <span style="font-size: large;">Art House</span> <a href="http://www.the-arthouse.org.uk/">http://www.the-arthouse.org.uk/</a> for a seminar organised by Axisweb entitled, <i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Artist, Validate Thyself </span></b></i>where we considered how artists are validated if they are working outside the established gallery hierarchy or working both within the system and without it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I cannot tell you what a joy it was to be among these intelligent perceptive people, having rigorous conversation and exchanges about professional practice. We are hoping that this exchange will continue in some way, that there may be more research undertaken about this subject because the report,<i><b> Validation beyond the gallery</b></i>, by Amanda Ravetz and Lucy Wright of Manchester School of Art for Axisweb is just a beginning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I forgot to mention a few weeks ago that I had been accepted by the selection panel of Axisweb and am now represented on their web site. I am delighted by this, because the standard of artists represented on the site is high. The work they do for artists is exceptional and I am proud to be part of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm off to Scarborough tomorrow for Ruth Miemczyk in conversation with curator Lara Goodband. <a href="http://ruthmiemczyk.artweb.com/">http://ruthmiemczyk.artweb.com/</a></span><span style="background: rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; color: #6a6a6a; font-size: 16px; line-height: 27.2px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b> </b><a href="http://www.crescentarts.co.uk/current/">http://www.crescentarts.co.uk/current/</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have made the decision to stop fretting about making more new work for my upcoming solo show in York next month. My 'Seasons' series will look great on the newly painted gallery walls and I have picked a large painting on paper to go in the window. Job done, feeling much less stressed now. When I do get some time, I will go out to the studio and work on the two large paintings I started some weeks ago and finish off the artists' books I have printed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile, I have embarked on a mammoth chutney making session; I am running a fundraiser bottle and jar stall for frack free in just over a week's time; so far I have made Autumn tomato chutney using my windfall cooking apples and some tomatoes I got at a reasonable price in a local shop. There are vegetables soaking in brine as I write, waiting to be made into pear and ginger Piccalilli tomorrow and I will harvest apples and plums from the garden for more chutneys and possibly some jam. Sloe gin, matured for more than two years will also be bottled up (in small bottles, I don't want to give it all away!). Along with contributions from other people, it should be a successful stall. It's strange to be talking about domestic things here; but that's what my life is at the moment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I completed 2 artists' books last week. I was planning to submit to an exhibition but then realised, with all the stress of balancing everything with anti fracking work, that I had missed the deadline! However, when I informed Steff Mitchell of Staithes Studios Gallery, (<a href="http://staithesstudios.com/">http://staithesstudios.com/</a>), she told me to post it to her and that she'd put it in the other gallery space even though the book could not be included in the main exhibition room. Better than nothing, but I really need to keep a closer eye on dates; it's hard when there's so much going on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meanwhile I am making some artists' books and I have two large paintings on the go, that will complete my quartet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have a bit of time today, so thought I would talk briefly about the Agnes Martin show at Tate:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unexpectedly, I found I had a day longer in London last weekend than I thought, so took the opportunity to see the show.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I can honestly say, it is one of the best exhibitions I have ever been to, and I've been to many. First up: the place was almost empty, which is the best way for a gallery to be, even better for an Agnes Martin show, which requires deep looking and thought in a peaceful environment.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The curation and hang is superb; Martin was in the habit of re-acquiring early work in order to destroy it, here we have examples of her entire life's work. The examples of early work, while not as interesting to me; they are derivative of other artists's works and movements ( Surrealism, Cubism for example); they were useful as part of the context of her development, as with any retrospective. For example, Martin's colours remained pretty much the same throughout her career: neutrals or mostly very pale hints of colours; like looking at colours behind a veil. Where she use stronger tones the colours are still mostly neutrals although stronger colour is occasionally evident. I was fascinated by this thread throughout her life's work. It is interesting to see how her work changed when she moved to New York, becoming full of life, expectation and experiment and the moment when she cast off curved lines to embrace the grid, vertical and horizontal line.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each space provides the work room to breath; the fact that the gallery was almost empty helped of course, but these works require time and contemplation and the hang enables this. One of the rooms, 7 I think, had cleverly screened a floor to ceiling window with fine white fabric, filtering the light but allowing the grid of the window design to show through, echoing the grids of Martin's work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Martin's works on paper are equally enthralling, room 10, "presents a retrospective within a retrospective", to quote Tate. Room 6 shows a collection of silk screen prints published by Parasol Press in 1973 that she had worked on in Stuttgart the previous year. I found these interesting because Martin had expressed a need to "straighten out her lines" because she could "never paint straight enough". The slight waverings of her lines in the paintings, creating optical wobbles and movement is one of the aspects of her work that I enjoy; the imperfections of the straight lines reflecting the frailty of human existence and evidence of the artist's hand at that particular moment in time. However, this desire to straighten out the lines provides us with an insight into her nature; I suspect she was not all sensitive and vulnerable; there is a doggedness, a determination about Martin's continual exploration of line, grid and surface that shows strength of mind and character, whilst acknowledging the frailty of her mental health. You'd have to be bloody minded to keep on making canvasses of the sizes she selected and to continue exploring her themes as she did.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"My paintings have neither objects nor space nor time nor anything - no forms. They are light, lightness, about merging, about formlessness, breaking down form" Agnes Martin, 1966.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The highlight of the entire exhibition for me. This suite of twelve paintings, <b><i>The Islands</i>,</b> all white canvasses each 182.9 x 182.9 cm square, are utterly beautiful. They are so sensitively curated; instead of the usual wire barrier that sounds an alarm should any visitor get too close, there is a platform about eight inches high all round the room beneath the paintings, keeping visitors the same distance from the work. The walls are painted a shell like tone of palest lilac allowing the works to communicate without any visual struggle. These works require time and patience; I could have stayed in there all day and more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Tate describes them as Martin's most silent works. Their surfaces require intense scrutiny to appreciate their surfaces and fine lines; Martin was interested in East Asian philosophy and spirituality and they reflect this. I found myself becoming intensely emotional while looking at these works, it was a really profound experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On considering why this was so, I think it was the sheer scale of the group that reflect, for me, Martin's intense scrutiny of herself through painting. I was not overwhelmed by them because I thought they referenced my scant knowledge of Martin's fragile mental health but because of the absolute commitment, determination and focus that these paintings express.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not going to describe the entire exhibition, I could not do it justice. It is a wonderful example of how an artist can produce a profound body of work throughout their life by sticking with and honing one idea, building on it as understanding and experience grows. I cannot recommend this exhibition enough, it is a "must see".</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"You are what goes through your mind, whether you are aware of it or not, you know, and if you can become aware of it and then if you can try and express it, you are an artist",</span> Agnes Martin, video, Road Trip</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>(Quotes are taken from Tate literature and web site).</i></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/01/agnes-martin-review-tate-modern-grid-paintings"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jun/01/agnes-martin-review-tate-modern-grid-paintings</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/06/agnes-martin-tate-modern">http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2015/06/agnes-martin-tate-modern</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/11643368/Agnes-Martin-Tate-Modern-review-immaculate.html">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/11643368/Agnes-Martin-Tate-Modern-review-immaculate.html</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/agnes-martin-retrospective-review-tate-modern-london">http://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/agnes-martin-retrospective-review-tate-modern-london</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/agnes-martin-at-tate-modern-a-zenlike-quest-for-beauty-10290161.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/agnes-martin-at-tate-modern-a-zenlike-quest-for-beauty-10290161.html</a></span><br />
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Sue Goughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16204489139893416187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124941679212812075.post-90215651851156200282015-07-16T14:41:00.000-07:002015-07-16T14:41:08.328-07:00First 3D painting completed, more on the go!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
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Sue Goughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16204489139893416187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124941679212812075.post-66050564637197370182015-07-08T14:26:00.000-07:002015-07-08T14:26:44.410-07:00New work<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since making the ballot box piece, I have been considering painting as three dimensional, not just two. It is early days and there are a lot of things I want to try. So far, I have begun a very long piece on Chinese paper; it is at a very early stage, just white tally marks using gouache looking very ethereal. I think I will continue with this using water colours and gouache, possibly ink, but I change my mind frequently when I am at this stage, with my head full of thoughts about the possibilities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have also bought a new stash of paper ready for when I have time to make some prints, lovely off white Somerset 300 gm. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I spent the week after Open Studios catching up in our newly developing garden as a winding down process. The weekend just gone was lost unfortunately, due to a family emergency. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am now back in the studio as a priority although my work for Frack Free Ryedale <a href="http://frackfreeryedale.org/">frackfreeryedale.org</a></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">continues apace and all this is balanced with the garden and family of course.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have several open submissions that I am interested in and the deadlines for these are looming, so the need to make some new work is urgent. I was in the studio all day yesterday, preparing boards for something a little experimental, more of which later. This morning I had some admin for FFR but in just a short while I shall be heading back out to the studio to continue prepping the boards. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I like the preparation time before any actual painting commences; it seems to me a meditative period, sanding the boards, brushing them free of dust, building up the layers of gesso, more sanding. All of this time allows for freer thoughts about my intentions for the piece to emerge, as they did yesterday and I am feeling really optimistic about this next body of work. I am becoming very interested in the way the layers of thoughts become part of the preparation time, become part of the work; the whole process is a layering of physical and mental exertion that I find completely enthralling and exhausting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the week between Open Studios, I took some time off to visit <span style="font-size: large;">The Tetley</span> and attend a talk about the current exhibition, <span style="font-size: large;">Painting in Time</span>. <a href="http://thetetley.org/painting-in-time/">http://thetetley.org/painting-in-time/</a> Three of the artists were present, one via Skype, along with three "interviewers". The talk was interesting and inspiring; I relished listening to a conversation about art, its process and thinking behind it. The whole thing was inspiring and I am hoping to be able to attend more in the future. I wrote notes during the talk as I knew I'd forget what was said if I didn't and I will blog more fully about the talk in my <span style="font-size: large;">An blog: </span> <span style="font-size: large;"><i>A Portrait of an Artist as a Very Late Starter</i></span>, as soon as I have time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It just means the studio door will have to be closed and we shan't be able to sit outside and enjoy the sunshine. Never mind! I'll have home made cake, tea and coffee available to tempt visitors as well as <span style="font-size: large;">lots of works on my walls </span>and in the browser, plus the prints of the works entitled Laminar Flow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thank you to all the lovely visitors who made the effort to visit. Your interest in my work and the lovely conversations are very much appreciated and make all the effort worth while.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The total number of visitors on Saturday was 52 - a big increase on last year! Fewer came on Sunday; a total of 21 and just as valued. All in all it was a most enjoyable weekend, the sale of a small piece on paper, the icing on the proverbial cake! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's nearly upon us! This coming weekend, <b><span style="font-size: large;">June 6/7th</span></b> and the following one, <b><span style="font-size: large;">June 13/14th, 10.30am - 5.30pm </span></b>North Yorkshire Open Studios takes place. My studio at Stonegrave will be open and I am going to show a wide variety of work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The prints of my series, Laminar Flow (seasons), are ready and mounted and I have just four of the original paintings to put back into their frames, ready for hanging on the wall. The other two walls will show a smaller series of works that I made last year and a couple of larger drawings. There will be pieces in my browser, other works stacked up for you to look at and a slide show of how the Laminar Flow series developed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The prints are a very limited edition, with two complete sets of twelve, so you will need to be quick if you want any!</span><br />
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Sue Goughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16204489139893416187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124941679212812075.post-24786335936840551222015-04-17T02:13:00.000-07:002015-04-17T02:13:49.230-07:00Looking forward<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been ill with a kidney infection, not nice but the antibiotics have sorted me out and the sun is streaming into the house today making me feel much better and giving me the energy to start tackling the tasks I have been unable to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is a lot of work going on towards the<span style="font-size: large;"> Rally for a frack free Ryedale on 25th April in Malton</span>. I am very behind with making the banners and placards but think I'll manage to get them all done next week. Plus cakes, always we have cake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My entry can be found here: <a href="http://www.nyos.org.uk/Artists-Makers.aspx?&fR=64&nR=114">http://www.nyos.org.uk/Artists-Makers.aspx?&fR=64&nR=114</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My studio has been very neglected so far this year; I have managed to reorganise and tidy it ready for when I have time to get out there and make work. At least it is ready for North Yorkshire Open Studios. I am really looking forward to it this year because Jenny Pepper <a href="http://www.jennypepper.com/">http://www.jennypepper.com/</a> is opening her studio up as well, so it will make our venue really worth visiting with two artists on site and of course, cake!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am feeling a bit desperate about studio work; missing the routine of it, especially as this was going to be the year where I concentrate on that as my major activity. Unfortunately my work with Frack Free Ryedale and Frack Free Kirby Misperton has taken up lots of time, energy and head space, which leaves me in the wrong frame of mind for my own work. Still, once the rally is over I hope to be able to concentrate again.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have finally taken the plunge and having a series of works on paper reproduced using giclee printing. As a rule, I don't like doing this but these twelve pieces make up one work and to sell one of the originals would destroy it. Therefor I am very excited to say that thanks to Ian Mitchell's recommendation, <a href="http://www.ianmitchellart.com/">http://www.ianmitchellart.com/</a>, I am happy to be working with Norton Print and Frame, <a href="http://www.fineart.co.uk/directory/fruit-art-ltd_100032.aspx?DirectorySearchPageId=5">http://www.fineart.co.uk/directory/fruit-art-ltd_100032.aspx?DirectorySearchPageId=5</a>, who are excellent. I will be going to check the proofs on Tuesday and then will give the go ahead for a limited print run of each. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The series, called<span style="font-size: large;"> Laminar Flow</span>, is one that was made as an <span style="font-size: large;">experiment;</span> I wanted to try and express what each season feels like and how they form a whole cycle and to do this, I made twelve pieces, acrylic on paper. Each painting started out the same or as near the same as hand made paintings can be, and then each successive painting had one more layer added, equally as identical as I could make them. The twelfth painting is therefor much thicker and heavier than the last. There is one painting for each month of the year; my concerns about the passing of time and memory reflected in each. These were made a few years ago, have been in a local pub for a year and generally forgotten about until I had them home again and realised that they were too good to be stuck on the storage rack. I'd be happy to sell the piece as a whole but devastated to break them up, hence the giclees.</span><br />
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Sue Goughhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16204489139893416187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7124941679212812075.post-15323843493592160472015-03-28T16:04:00.002-07:002015-03-28T16:04:49.996-07:00March ends - an update<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My piece for "Democracy Rocks", <i>The Mud and the Sheen*</i></span>, is a first for me, because I have never made an installation of my own work before. I am pleased with the results, although, against my better judgement I have scattered too much preparatory work at its base, losing the cleanness of where the loops of paper almost touch the floor. If I ever install it again, elsewhere, I will avoid that. In the end, it was installed near a back corner of the gallery, simply because it was easier to suspend the work from there and it looks good; the added height of the gallery ceiling enabled me to increase the height of the work too, making it even more relevant to the meaning of the piece. I have really enjoyed the challenge of creating a two dimensional print and presenting it in three dimensions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The private view was quite well attended, there has been a lot of media interest too. I hate posing for photographs, why is it that newspaper photographers always seem to work to such awful, cliche ridden ideas of what makes a good photograph? It makes me laugh and shudder at the awful banality of it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I enjoyed being part of the team that set up this extraordinary exhibition that includes work by young people and professional artists. I can thoroughly recommend a visit and when you do, don't forget to post a vote for your favourite pieces and write on a post it note about what democracy means to you, using the polling booth. You might even like to have a go at drumming on one of the decorated ballot boxes!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Artist <span style="font-size: large;">Ian Mitchell</span> <a href="http://www.ianmitchell-art.com/">http://www.ianmitchell-art.com/</a> recommended <span style="font-size: large;">Norton Print and Frame</span> <a href="http://www.fineart.co.uk/directory/fruit-art-ltd_100032.aspx?DirectorySearchPageId=5">http://www.fineart.co.uk/directory/fruit-art-ltd_100032.aspx?DirectorySearchPageId=5</a> to me as the best people to approach about having some prints made of a series of paintings I made a couple of years ago. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I continue to be fascinated by ideas that explore the passage of time. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Called <i>Seasons</i>, the piece comprises 12 paintings, 30 x 40 cm, acrylic on paper. An experimental series, each piece started out exactly the same, or as near as I could get it, given that they are paintings. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Each successive piece was added to in the same way until I reached the final, twelfth painting. The paintings each represent one month of a year and are a result of careful observation of colour and light levels. NP&F have produced some superb photographs of each painting and I am really looking forward to going back in a few days to look at the proofs before we go ahead and produce a short edition of ten of each painting. I plan to have two full sets available, and the rest can be sold separately. The point of this exercise, because I would not as a rule produce prints of my paintings, is that I cannot sell any individual paintings from the originals as they collectively comprise one piece of work. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been battling with finding time to complete this work. I keep being distracted by the anti fracking campaign in this area where I live; we are on the front line of the fracking attack here and it is very, very worrying. I am trying hard to keep positive by doing positive things to help the cause, but it is extremely draining on my mental strength, which is not conducive to my creative production!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However: I am excited!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have no idea how long the piece actually is; several people have asked me, so I suppose I should attempt to measure it before it is completed because I expect more people will ask the same question. It is not a piece of purist printmaking; rather the visual version of a room filled with talk, the talk all being about the nature and importance of democracy and voting. As I have progressed with the piece, I have found more and more information that relates to the subject, which there is not really room to include, but which I will include in some of the single pieces I am going to make, and the artists' books. It would actually be quite nice to do some paintings too, to see how the ideas translate into richly surfaced pieces.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I worked on the piece again for a day last week; there were gaps that I wanted to address; some gaps are OK; causing "pauses" in the conversation but other areas were crying out for more coverage. I am very pleased with the Thermofax screens; they are so easy to use and made reproducing my hand drawn tally blocks and the printed quotes very easy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The mix of mono, collograph, lino and screen print within the piece works too; the balance between the hand drawn aspects of the mono printing and the rest is particularly interesting to me. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This shot above shows the ballot box work and some experiments I have made on wider pieces of paper, I love the translucency of the Chinese paper and its strength.</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">At one stage, because the work is so long and I was trying to identify the areas that needed more work, I was printing with the work on my left in folds on the floor while on the right, it was held up and draped on my wooden clothes airer. I had to be very careful not to trip up! See for yourself:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks to all of you who take the time to read this and as always, I welcome your comments.</span><br />
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