BeBop / an early days sketch
I've been clearing through old work on my hard drives, as I prepare to move to a faster machine next week. I'm hoping it'll allow me to work more flexibly this autumn. As a result, I've been re-visiting a vast number of studies in progress, that have been reworked along the way, and ultimately become quite different pieces in their final iterations.
A Gallery in the Mews / Opening Vernissage
Really good to have two works, Blast FIRST and Evol, included in Marco Venturi’s new venture ‘Made in BrItaly’. A project that combines art and craft in a new mews gallery in central London.
Generator 2012 / a short film
A little before the launch of my 'Generator / process and progress' show in Nov 2012, the Catto Gallery commissioned a short online film, made in my studio during the run up to the opening. You can view it online here…
Words in Colour / Space, W10
The exhibition includes painting, printmaking, sculpture and photography with work by gallery artists Soraya Schofield, David Kiely, Kate Williamson, Dave Tomlinson, Barry Cawston Photography, Lily Urbanska and Chuck Elliott
Analogue to Post Digital, BFX Conference, 2015
I’m looking forward to presenting a recent paper at the BFX Conference this September, which Dr Sarah Sparke, CMIR, UWE (Centre for Moving Image Research, University of the West of England) and I have co-written this autumn.
Entitled ‘Looking back to go Forwards: tensions and missed opportunities. A case-study of continuities and breaks in practice and technologies’ the paper examines the ways in which current curatorial practice and pricing mechanisms may be putting a brake on the uptake of contemporary digital techniques being used, and commodified, both in the commercial gallery sector, and the wider arts community.
Curious Duke Gallery, a new pop up show curated by Jess Lloyd-Smith, September 2015
Jess Lloyd-Smith's Modern Art Buyer project is hosting a fabulous new exhibition of work at the Curious Duke Gallery, located at the top of Brick Lane, my old stomping ground throughout the nineties.
I'll be showing works including Radial / ONE and Blast FIRST alongside gallery artists Maria Rivans, Bonnie and Clyde, Jane Emberson, Emma Cowlam, Alexander Johnson and Rebecca King. Should be well worth a look.
Fresh Art 2015 at the Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth
Last chance to see a great mixed summer show at the Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth. Gallery director Mark Riley has selected works for a group exhibition featuring new work by Clark Nicol, Sir Peter Blake, Karen Nicol, Connor Ragus, Dominic Vonbern, Iva Troj and Rosie Sanders alongside seven or eight of my own recent pieces.
Transistor at the Hampstead AAF, June 2015
Good to be exhibiting work with the Transistor project at this year’s Hampstead AAF. The fair opens at 5.30 on Wednesday 10th June for the charity private view. It’s then open from 11am to 9.30pm on Thursday 11th, and 11am to 6pm on Friday, Saturday and Sunday 14th.
The Other Art Fair, June 2015
Fabulous to be included in the line up for The Other Art Fair’s inaugural event outside London, at the Arnolfini, here in Bristol.
With curation and selection by Paul Hobson / director of Modern Art Oxford, Cherie Federico / Aesthetica Magazine, Helen Legg / director of Spike Island and Bristol’s own Sickboy, the fair looks set to be full of local talent…
The Art of Doing More / Surface 3 vs Beautiful Crime / A short film
As part of the process of making the exhibition, Microsoft's team interviewed the artists and filmed their work in progress. If you'd like to know a little more, there’s a short film about the show posted on youtube here…
Is this the future of art? Photographers, painters and street artists use tablet technology to create digital masterpieces
The Art of Doing More, a pop-up exhibition in London's Finsbury Avenue Square, features colourful works created by eleven contemporary artists, made using a Microsoft Surface 3 tablet.
Surface3 vs Beautiful Crime
As the art world becomes more and more synergised with the digital age and all the technology that comes with it, artists are increasingly exploring the possibilities of meshing art with technology.
This exhibition, featuring 101 unique artworks, has given the artists we work with a fantastic opportunity to illuminate the Surface 3's ability to combine creativity, art and technology on the go, in ways they hadn't explored before.
Liam West and Ruthie Holloway, Beautiful Crime
Klint / reDux / A new series of work for the Beautiful Crime vs Microsoft Surface 3 exhibition
For the Surface 3 vs Beautiful Crime show, I've been riffing on a new idea, that combines the ghost of a previous study, Vortura, with my love of Japanese paper folding, notably the crane, digital print making, and the classic designs of the Le Klint studio, a widely celebrated lighting design company, who perfectly combined those two most critical of materials, light and geometry, from 1943 onwards.
Transistor at the Battersea AAF 2015
Celebrating my tenth year at the Battersea AAF, I’m exhibiting new work with Bristol based artist’s group Transistor at this year’s fair, alongside new work by Harriet White, Conor Wilson, Francis Elliott, Rob Manners, Ian Chamberlain and Dan Miles. If you’d like a pass for the show, please do get in touch, we’ll look forward to seeing you at the fair.
Lucid / RMX at the Catto Gallery
Lucid / RMX was my third show at Catto, based around the idea of digitally remixing the works, by appropriating ideas and processes more normally used in a music studio.
Lucid / RMX catalogue
Published in March 2015 to coincide with my second solo show at Catto Gallery, Lucid / RMX is a 36 page catalogue, with a foreword by Tim Green. Lucid / RMX takes the idea of the remix from the world of music, especially contemporary electronic music, into the artist’s studio. As such many of the works featured in the exhibition riff on the idea of being visually remixed, or are in some way re-engineered. I liked the idea of working with the concept of remixing works for the show, and experimenting with a broad selection of the pieces made for a more cohesive exhibition in many ways.
Lucid / RMX. An exhibtion of work at the Catto Gallery
Opening tomorrow night, a new solo show: Lucid / RMX at the Catto Gallery 100 Heath Street, Hampstead, from 6pm.
Two years on from my Generator show, the latest instalment of new work is ready to view at the Catto Gallery. Featuring 24 new pieces, selected from the best work produced over the past twenty four months. If you’re in the area, please do come along.
beBop 45
As the date for my upcoming show at Catto Gallery nears, I find myself in that strange hiatus between completing the artwork, and awaiting it’s return from the framers. In the meantime, I thought I’d post one of the new drawings here – beBop 45.
Colour Proofs, Jan 2015
I spent a fascinating day at Tapestry, on Goswell Road, last Friday. As the New Year comes in, so the date for my new solo show at the Catto Gallery in Hampstead comes into focus. The task in hand is to produce about twenty or so of the drawings I’ve been working on over the past two years, as full size editioned prints, all with Diasec mounts, and many of them laser cut.
Ascension / Re:MiX
New year / new post. I thought I’d start the year by posting a new image from a collection of twenty or so new works that I’m putting together for a solo show at the Catto Gallery, Hampstead. The show is set to open in March 2015.
This piece is a geometry that takes on some of the sculptural ideas of the Radial series and combines them with the squared form of Myriad. Titled as an homage to John Coltrane’s Ascension recordings, the colours spiral chaotically outward, and hopefully take flight as they spin towards the edge.