These are the long-awaited drawings I made for ‘Grow’, an exhibition I made work for, in Gateshead at the beginning of the year. They are all based on drawings and studies I did when I visited the traditional wooden boat-builders at the North East Maritime Trust.
I was in London at the weekend. We ended up in a members-only club lit only by candlelight and cucumber-water (try it, it’s amazing) on the tables, playing music from the 1920s-1940s and it felt like (what I imagine) was just like a speakeasy from the time of prohibition in the 1920s.
I thought I could do the Charleston.
As it stands I wasn’t so great at it and the throbbing vein in that bald man’s head told me so.
Last week after months of painting, being rained on, snowed on, repairing leaks, weather-watching, tea drinking, pink hair, blue hands and numb feet I finally finished painting my shop shutter for Gateshead Council commissioned project Shop Art.
Big thanks to helpers, tea-makers and kind word-sayers.
You can see my work at 336 High Street South, Gateshead, NE8 1EN.
For more information on the project and the other art works click here.
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I’ve had an exciting day looking at photos of robots, eating avocado and toast and drawing lines and circles.
I’ve also been looking through all my sketchbooks for something I wrote down months ago which I didn’t find. Bummer. BUT I did find loads of drawings I’ve done since I moved into the studio. I’ll try to upload them over the next few days/hours/week/months/however long it takes so that you can see what I’ve been up to.
Watch this space.
Just got an email to say our ‘GROW’ exhibition at The Gallery, Gateshead (on til 12 March check it out) is featured in this/next months issue of Living North magazine. There’s a bunch of words about what I do/did and in the background (I’m guessing because I was too silly to scan/take photos of my work before it went to print) they’ve put one of my other drawings. I was sent a pdf of the article but I can’t seem to upload it onto my blog so you’ll just have to buy/borrow/steal one or just take my word for it.
Or even better, go see the exhibition…
Reminds me of the Hvass and Hannibal exhibition I saw last year.
Politics is beautiful
I have drawings in a group exhibition which opens tonight 6-8pm at The Gallery, Gateshead Library.
The exhibition is a collaboration between artists from The Shed studio and older artists/organisations designed as a mentoring scheme to encourage interaction between different ages and is based around age and the sea.
Laura Hebron and Helena Seget,
Liam Murray and Mark Todman,
Lisa Gara and Clare Satow,
Kate Eccles and North East Maritime Trust.
Work includes drawing, printing, textiles, jewellery, ceramics and 3D.
Exhibition dates:
Saturday 29 January – Saturday 12 March 2011
The Gallery, Gateshead Library,
Prince Consort Road, Gateshead, NE8 4LN
Tel: 0191 433 8420
Absolute festive wonderment from my hairy handed friend and animator extraordinaire Nick Cobby.
3 French hens, excellent.
via: Nick Cobby
