Today I have been to my studio at Rogue to prepare for my forthcoming live performance I'll be giving at Toast next week. Please come along and see it (details below).
Pictures below show me marking out a grid on a 1m 80 x 1m 80 piece of plastic. Within these marked spaces I paint my 'picture-language' using a mixture of white acrylic and PVA. I'm using sketches I made in 2008 of an invented 'picture language' inspired by looking at the movement of people, as a reference for the marks I paint on the plastic. This activity is about me deciding on the scale, method and process I will use for my performance as well as taking into consideration aesthetics and my feelings about all these elements that make up the piece.
I am publishing these 'behind the scene' pictures because I am hoping that students find seeing what an artist does in order to workout a method of working useful. They really are the first few steps I have taken to prepare for my performance. Like beginning any new piece of work, it is a bit daunting to make those first few marks on a clean space - the whiteness of a canvas or cartridge paper, but it is only once you begin that you can start making decisions you couldn't possibly make without trying it out in practice.
I am publishing these 'behind the scene' pictures because I am hoping that students find seeing what an artist does in order to workout a method of working useful. They really are the first few steps I have taken to prepare for my performance. Like beginning any new piece of work, it is a bit daunting to make those first few marks on a clean space - the whiteness of a canvas or cartridge paper, but it is only once you begin that you can start making decisions you couldn't possibly make without trying it out in practice.
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