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I've realised I don't have my favourite work up on my blog, so now I'm about to remedy that if I can find my photos six months later.. This painting was the last one I did for school last year and is 182cm x 110cm. I was especially pleased with the floor and the tones on the figure.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-22905103584953926232011-12-20T21:14:00.000+00:002014-12-20T21:15:41.971+00:00Paul McCarthy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Paul McCarthy jumps about a dimly lit
class room, his body is covered in ketchup, he is wearing a long wig.
A medium sized doll is sandwiched between his legs and he appears to
be sticking a small plastic Barbie doll up his anus. Many of the
audience caught on the video of this performance have their hands to
their mouths. No-one is smiling. As McCarthy jumps around the narrow
aisles between the rows of chairs, the floor is now covered also in
ketchup and he loses his footing and falls back surely hitting his
head. Still he gets up and continues jumping about clearly in danger
of hurting himself and possibly the audience. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Class
Fool</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> (1976) is a classic
example of the kind of performance that McCarthy became known for in
the 70s and early 80s. Dan Cameron sums this up as “the experience
of watching a fellow human being descend into the state of
provisionally non human invites a sense of the uncanny, wherein the
standards for distinguishing between person and thing, or between
living and dead, are rendered temporarily inoperable” (2000, p.
60). McCarthy's work is the product of an age when students,
intellectuals and artists questioned accepted truths about society;
it is rich with art historical influences and socio-political
references. In the following essay, I intend to discuss how
Minimalism holds an influential grip on McCarthy’s sculpture and
how themes from the Viennese Actionists and the Performance Art
movement underlie his Performance Art. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Introduced to the concepts of
Minimalism during his early university years, aspects of this
artistic genre found their way into his work, especially his
sculpture. Minimalism is a term used in particular since the 1960s,
to describe a style characterized by an impersonal austerity, plain
geometric configurations and industrially processed materials (Want,
2007</span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.
Donald Judd who, along with Robert Morris was one of the principle
artists writing about Minimalism described it in his article </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Surface
Objects </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(1965) as a new
type of art in three dimensions that was neither painting nor
sculpture but superseded both of these (Want, 2007</span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">).
Another important element in a lot of Minimalist work is the scale.
Minimalists paintings and sculpture are characterised by a large
scale comparable to the size of the human body and in some cases
require or invite direct interaction from the viewer to show that
they occupy the same space as the viewer's body (Colpitt, 1998).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">McCarthy,
P. (1968) </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Dead H</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
[galvanised steel 72 x 18 x 66 inches]. Galerie Hauser & Wirth.</span></div>
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All these characteristics
(austerity, geometry, materials, scale and human interaction) can be
seen in some of McCarthy's works; </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Dead
H </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(1968),</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>
Dead H Crawl </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(1968/99) and</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>
A Skull with a Tail </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(1975 –
78)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Dead
H </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(1968)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
is made of galvanised steel and is a six foot high capital H laid on
its back so as to be recognisable as an H when viewed from above. The
uprights of the H are made from eighteen inch square sections and are
not sealed at the top and bottom so a viewer can look straight
through them from bottom to the top and the work is installed on the
floor in a way that allows the audience to do just that. </span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Dead H Crawl </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1999)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
is a version of </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Dead H</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
that is large enough to allow viewers to crawl through the straight
tunnels of the uprights. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>A
Skull with a Tail </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1978)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
once again of galvanised steel is painted black and consists of a two
foot cube with an appendage that is a hollow, square tube 6 feet long
extending from the cube along the floor in a crooked dog leg shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">McCarthy acknowledges the influence in
Skull of Tony Smith's sculpture </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Die!
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1962)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
which was a seminal Minimalist work in an interview with Stiles: “At
the same time it was a cube, a minimal cube, and that were painted
black. They were almost direct references to Tony Smith's sculpture.”
(1996, p. 459). </span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cameron
draws a parallel between McCarthy and Minimalism in their treatment
of the work in relation to the human body: </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“In
his sculptures from the same period, McCarthy developed variations on
the minimalist practice of incorporating the human body in ways that
undermined the apparently objective rationalism of the geometric
vocabulary” (Cameron, 2000, p. 58). Although A Skull with Tail is
too small to climb into, Cameron refers to the importance of the
viewer's interaction with the the 'tail' and the fact that it
represents a tunnel: “By attaching an appendage which is a type of
tunnel, the work can be read as degrading the sanctity of the cube,
in favour of a culturally loaded interior space which is visually cut
off from us.” (Cameron, 2000 p. 58).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Whilst Minimalism has played an
influential role in McCarthy’s sculpture, in his Performance Art
there are noticeable influences from other performance artists in
particular Yves Klein and the Viennese Actionists.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">McCarthy,
P. (1972) </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Face
Painting – Floor, White Line</i></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">
[still image from video].</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">As an artistic movement, the
roots of twentieth century Performance Art began in the early 1900s
when the Futurists performed in theatres and piazzas throughout
Italy</span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">.
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Performance Art arose
also among Dadaists, and at the Bauhaus school in Germany (source). A
significant driver for performance art in the 60s was artists looking
for liberation from market forces. This lead to innovations such as
circulation of art by mail, Happenings and performances. These
"Artists spaces" were thought of as more democratic than
galleries (Becker, 1994, p. 56).</span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Influenced by the German Bauhaus
school, Allan Kaprow was one of </span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">the</span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
instigators of the Happenings and would become a teacher and friend
of McCarthy. Kaprow described Happenings as “spatial
representations of a multileveled attitude to painting”. (Goldberg,
2007). McCarthy met Kaprow at the San Francisco Art Institute and
they remained friends throughout Kaprow's life. McCarthy drew
inspiration from Kaprow and well before this time had been introduced
to all the major art movements, including Gutai, the radical group of
Japanese painters and performers from the 1950's, Destructionist Art,
Performance Art and film during his undergraduate studies in Salt
Lake City (Rush, 2001).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Performance has been a common element
of McCarthy's work throughout his career beginning with early works
such as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Mountain Bowling
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1969)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
in which he carried a bowling ball to the top of a mountain and
bowled it down three times. In the 1970s and 80s he presented solo
performances like </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Class Fool
</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1976)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
and </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Death Ship </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1983)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
and more recently more comprehensive productions such as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Santa
Chocolate Shop </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1997)
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">which featured a cast of
6.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One of the concepts that McCarthy
adopted from earlier performance art was using the body to create
paintings in which the action of painting is more important than the
product. Artists such as Yves Klein explored this idea in
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Anthropometries of the Blue
Period </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1960)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
in which he had nude models covered in blue paint writhing on canvas.
(Goldberg). Parallels can be seen in McCarthy's </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Face
Painting – Floor, White Line </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1972)</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
where he tipped a bucket of white paint on its side and inched his
way along the floor face down to produce a smeared white line along
the floor. McCarthy later performed </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Penis
Brush Painting </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-style: normal;">(1974)
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">in which he dipped his
penis in paint and used it to cover a piece of glass. This was the
first of many works that would feature the male sexual organ in a
lead role.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Another group of
performance artists influencial on McCarthy was the Viennese
Actionists. Obvious parallels can be drawn with the fact that both
make performances that feature lewd acts and bodily fluids although
McCarthy is at pains to point out that he is not driven by the same
traumas as the Viennese actionists and while the actionists use real
blood, McCarthy uses ketchup and to him “it really is about the
ketchup” (Rush, 2001).</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Beyond their
cosmetic similarities, both McCarthy and the Viennese Actionists
share a desire to use performance to therapeutic ends. </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Otto
Muehl was one of the founders of this group and said that the artist
has the responsibility to change himself and society as well.’ In
this he was reiterating one of the central tenets of Aktionismus,
that art should have a cathartic, curative function within society.
His aim in such works as </span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>SS
and Jew</i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>ish
Star Aktion (1971)</i></span></span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
was a form of social therapy through an act of self-abasement for the
Nazi period, a liberating reinterpretation of the self and society
</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(</span><span style="color: #262626;"><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Wilson,
2007). </span></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Engaging in a cathartic process was
also one of McCarthy's reasons for adopting performance:
“[Performance] allows me to intuitively act out unconscious and
conscious dilemmas in a character.” (Stiles 1996, p. 455). These
performances in which McCarthy takes on a character began with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Ma
Bell </i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">(1971). The artist
usually begins by donning a mask or covering his face with something
and removing some or all of his clothes. Also crucial as mentioned
earlier is the use of fluids such as ketchup, chocolate and
mayonnaise to represent bodily fluids. Chanting primitive words such
as “mommy” and “fuck” he performs repetitive actions:
“there's this aspect of getting into something repetitive, going
with that repetition to the point of discovery, and then sort of
letting go in that space” (Stiles, 1976, p. 452).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After 1983 McCarthy moved away from
live performances and instead recorded performance on video which
became part of installations such as </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>Bossy
Burger</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> (1991), he also used
mechanised sculptures to perform in his works in place of a person as
in </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><i>The Garden</i></span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">
(1992), a forest scene which on close inspection has a mechanised man
rubbing his groin up against a tree with his pants down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">While McCarthy's work is highly
original and distinctive it is clear that he draws on a range of
artistic influences. I have provided examples which demonstrate that
the geometric shapes, the materials, the scale and the opportunities
for human interaction or the consideration of possibilities of human
interaction were important elements that McCarthy brought into his
work from Minimalism. McCarthy later went on to develop and evolve
these elements. The cube became a recurring theme throughout his
later works with new layers of meaning added on, while the
relationship between the space of the art work and the space of the
body can also be seen as a central concern of much of his work. As
performance had been a popular choice for artists who wanted to
challenge the establishments of society and the art world since the
beginning of the twentieth century , McCarthy had many predecessors
to draw on and in this arena I have shown that while he didn't always
stick to the live aspect of performance art, he shared a desire to
challenge the conventions of what constitutes art and took
inspiration from artists local and international both for his bloody
aesthetic and his aims of going beyond existing painting modes and
surfacing of societal dilemmas.</span></div>
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Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-54558949370156970722011-09-07T10:44:00.000+01:002011-09-07T10:44:59.438+01:00bird<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">This was an animation I made by cutting out images taken from the recording made in 1894 by <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;"><b>Étienne-Jules Marey</b> and laying them over one of the desks in the studios at school that was white at the start of the year but is by now covered in the remnants of multiple students artistic efforts.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP52a2LxjVcY8zEFLckEDaUkSaOf1Skec0l0Hf9Z0PSiAJv67nxmJaIwVw8ClhV6oyDeScrwNRmStr-mpnG65dk0CC2gvXzGxuZQU22O-Yf7fronzkOY-Qfu2vwv73hrzsaN_0ww/s1600/birds-sml-4.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP52a2LxjVcY8zEFLckEDaUkSaOf1Skec0l0Hf9Z0PSiAJv67nxmJaIwVw8ClhV6oyDeScrwNRmStr-mpnG65dk0CC2gvXzGxuZQU22O-Yf7fronzkOY-Qfu2vwv73hrzsaN_0ww/s1600/birds-sml-4.gif" /></a></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-20108537622602379382011-05-03T10:03:00.000+01:002011-05-03T10:03:08.897+01:00self portraitBack at school and we spent the first four days in an intensive self-portrait workshop in which we were required to divide up the portrait into squares and use colour in new ways.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_GlwtumcNvbxmzMHWxYllTnmRhqyKbEBWY5X2GjgYSOXrupbfBMFz9X4q2fdINJYAlseN0ZuplrcYgtDHROhnA0L-z_FuH_B1V1m5lttegXBs8j3m1xqASvg73qOBAeaLhJWKw/s1600/mdas-self-portrait.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-_GlwtumcNvbxmzMHWxYllTnmRhqyKbEBWY5X2GjgYSOXrupbfBMFz9X4q2fdINJYAlseN0ZuplrcYgtDHROhnA0L-z_FuH_B1V1m5lttegXBs8j3m1xqASvg73qOBAeaLhJWKw/s1600/mdas-self-portrait.gif" /></a></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-33826151831058212162011-03-17T19:17:00.000+00:002011-03-17T19:17:48.369+00:00place 3<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXigS88J7jonuZjqVpZqzaIkjNF7bpjsUww0KBXwua19g8a2Dk4HmqbwR0m56yLBA2MsR54_UE30r4GWhoXEcS8GJZ4tDB9YQssl371HL5fsdvRkEh00AvTuhgZXbs6wTZ0yKJYQ/s1600/P1080760.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="484" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXigS88J7jonuZjqVpZqzaIkjNF7bpjsUww0KBXwua19g8a2Dk4HmqbwR0m56yLBA2MsR54_UE30r4GWhoXEcS8GJZ4tDB9YQssl371HL5fsdvRkEh00AvTuhgZXbs6wTZ0yKJYQ/s640/P1080760.JPG" width="640" /></a></div>This is another piece from our first assignment at Whitecliffe.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-82878424850743693262011-03-06T15:01:00.000+00:002011-03-06T15:01:25.036+00:00Red and Black Art Sale No.1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie2ENyOOlzJrksjMqB-RKXdtt4tW0Z5t223zbRGVNe7W9SStsXkysF2_OiMa44Y3F4b863B2nO7htNPSnBpiNHNz9EVxEf3qFvX8kVDkiHBkkt81Nx0Mmi0whgu-agqxqLiyArnw/s1600/IMG_0605.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie2ENyOOlzJrksjMqB-RKXdtt4tW0Z5t223zbRGVNe7W9SStsXkysF2_OiMa44Y3F4b863B2nO7htNPSnBpiNHNz9EVxEf3qFvX8kVDkiHBkkt81Nx0Mmi0whgu-agqxqLiyArnw/s320/IMG_0605.JPG" width="305" /></a></div>I'll post more images soon of the event, but this is the sign I put up for the art sale we had at our flat yesterday. Several friends from art school contributed art as well as others from the Whitecliffe community - not to mention my wonderful neighbour. Everyone had a superb time and we raised over $500 for Christchurch Earthquake relief, on a day when the weather made it pretty tempting just to snuggle up in bed with a movie.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-72617330527041239382011-02-28T10:11:00.000+00:002011-02-28T10:11:17.136+00:00loci - relation 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-68-ktHApbLs/TWty4HLSacI/AAAAAAAACDI/PMpLY_HZMlM/s1600/185900_1652498637163_1377940317_1590351_681628_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; display: inline !important; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-68-ktHApbLs/TWty4HLSacI/AAAAAAAACDI/PMpLY_HZMlM/s320/185900_1652498637163_1377940317_1590351_681628_n.jpg" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsgV5NIP9aencFm_5JNKj_7v3mHnySn-Wwg8NSnx7F2Xr0xOQZB9_PZ-49nH65R8-QKddfG0MirPC6eRCRZx4JDcrJ7SrseyUu7pii9B0KCpVdCGjaKqx7584uq2Zixt7LWRGUQ/s1600/IMG_0381.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsgV5NIP9aencFm_5JNKj_7v3mHnySn-Wwg8NSnx7F2Xr0xOQZB9_PZ-49nH65R8-QKddfG0MirPC6eRCRZx4JDcrJ7SrseyUu7pii9B0KCpVdCGjaKqx7584uq2Zixt7LWRGUQ/s320/IMG_0381.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirsgV5NIP9aencFm_5JNKj_7v3mHnySn-Wwg8NSnx7F2Xr0xOQZB9_PZ-49nH65R8-QKddfG0MirPC6eRCRZx4JDcrJ7SrseyUu7pii9B0KCpVdCGjaKqx7584uq2Zixt7LWRGUQ/s1600/IMG_0381.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; color: black;"></span></a></div><br />
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Matthew Sinnock, February 2011, Loci – <i>Relation 1</i> [magnets, steel, card, wood, canvas, paper, plasticene 21 x 30cm]Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-24169898818007510372011-02-25T07:58:00.000+00:002011-02-25T07:58:41.300+00:00loci - identity 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JmWyKZ3S390/TWdgAdv1WQI/AAAAAAAACCc/tprJcbJEMkQ/s1600/P1080786.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JmWyKZ3S390/TWdgAdv1WQI/AAAAAAAACCc/tprJcbJEMkQ/s640/P1080786.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br />
Matthew Sinnock, February 2011, Loci – Identity 1 [human hair on paper 21 x 30cm]Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-24737914603403360442011-02-24T04:18:00.000+00:002011-02-24T04:18:19.539+00:00loci: exhibition<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SsI-As49G4g/TWXbEu-8JAI/AAAAAAAACCQ/bP35nq_-mXI/s1600/loci-invite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SsI-As49G4g/TWXbEu-8JAI/AAAAAAAACCQ/bP35nq_-mXI/s400/loci-invite.jpg" /></a></div>If any of my favourite people would like to come along and see about 1,000 pieces of work produced over the past 2 weeks by year one BFA students, let me know, I'd love to have you there.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-59297697576547460122011-02-22T18:26:00.002+00:002011-02-22T18:26:52.960+00:00OMG I am my mother<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25Lcc1Kcvm0/TWP_tEpP5GI/AAAAAAAACCE/HJtORs_2wEg/s1600/IMG_0335.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="320" width="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-25Lcc1Kcvm0/TWP_tEpP5GI/AAAAAAAACCE/HJtORs_2wEg/s320/IMG_0335.JPG" /></a></div>I had hoped this wouldn't be like this in the morning.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-84150481555208514542011-02-22T18:18:00.000+00:002011-02-22T18:18:25.552+00:00letterbox<iframe width="480" height="295" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/M9cbwFdg0TU?fs=1" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe><br />This is a montage of stills from some work I'm doing for my first assignment at school. Sorry about the Ken Burns effect. Didn't have time to figure out how to kill it.Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-7687310047653554302011-02-19T11:54:00.000+00:002011-02-19T11:54:44.785+00:00loci<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sd_QoXNyRk8/TV-ubtP4EKI/AAAAAAAACBg/zs7JAZdRfb0/s1600/hood2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-Sd_QoXNyRk8/TV-ubtP4EKI/AAAAAAAACBg/zs7JAZdRfb0/s400/hood2.jpg" /></a></div><br />
working on an assignment for school. loci: identity, place, site. so much fun. <br />
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this started off as a letterbox that i was going to somehow show in it's assembled and disassembled state.<br />
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the possibilities and the need to produce 8 pieces by friday are keeping me awake..Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-64283362657570605392011-02-09T20:41:00.000+00:002011-02-09T20:41:50.562+00:00last roll of kodachromeI love this bit of street art captured in 2010 on the last ever roll of kodachrome film <br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2011/02/last-kodachrome-slide-show-201102#slide=21" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="405" width="608" src="http://www.vanityfair.com/images/culture/2011/02/last-kodachrome-ss21.jpg" /></a></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-1007213556436507832011-02-08T19:00:00.000+00:002011-02-08T19:00:44.938+00:00Lucas and the ice cream<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3dTmH_NYVyFjkRambEKUkqzIybAVlyZi5gU20hZRcuzaagKWtBoUe5lkdCELdvOx4vCW-BuCgxpk8hiN8ttCy5U0OQ_WObv1M99MM3bw0E3MNDvRLRk2dypI4r98USFLq57I5FA/s1600/lucas-icecream.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3dTmH_NYVyFjkRambEKUkqzIybAVlyZi5gU20hZRcuzaagKWtBoUe5lkdCELdvOx4vCW-BuCgxpk8hiN8ttCy5U0OQ_WObv1M99MM3bw0E3MNDvRLRk2dypI4r98USFLq57I5FA/s400/lucas-icecream.jpg" /></a></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-31290244500855842192011-02-03T17:06:00.001+00:002011-02-04T02:00:44.391+00:00Brixton to Tower Bridge in 84 seconds<div>I went through periods over the past 6 years where I felt compelled to take huge numbers of photos and try to capture and communicate what it was like for me in Europe, away from friends and family, swallowed up in a big city. </div><div><br />
</div><div>This compilation from my camera stuck to my bicycle handlebars captures some of it. I also included this in my portfolio submission for entry to Whitecliffe to which I was accepted on Wednesday(!)</div><div><br />
</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="444" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/743wRj92t3I?fs=1" width="625"></iframe>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-26716328360879901802011-01-27T09:51:00.000+00:002011-01-27T09:51:35.784+00:00really big<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXcrFprbh4c4qS5AocB2fWmAZVkua1Ry0c8wba3prTqGykpdn4RhnCWfTkeE1fmu7iomOdomBzSITyKY1q9y16H271kNgDDhZekNxm318UZwZI-i25jpxDHgN52G6rNvPRNkGJ9g/s1600/P1080617.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br />
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<img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxxZAqpufHtVQ1pA7Sl93AkcQ5W2BzImgR6pHXPfqFOT-GbP3EwgDJjy_pM1Jx4yzkhj2Wiy9orBpYg4Ihqaat9rcsq6KMqCcArh5d9_2euBqNOJ2WRf7EN7yKpsCEkn11-nmsHg/s640/P1080612.jpg" width="480" /></a></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-64864572752246163722011-01-12T19:23:00.000+00:002011-01-12T19:23:01.666+00:00painting stage oneAlso started a painting that may appear in a movie my friend Kobi is making..<br />
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</div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-2655739729875135302011-01-04T23:04:00.000+00:002011-01-04T23:04:11.253+00:00New year, new paintingVery pleased to have completed my first painting in the newly organised spareroom/studio. I have an easel that can do biiig pictures on and space to be messy!<br /><a href="http://goo.gl/photos/xgPKiHUeny" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLdWOcEEKOdX_g-tdkbTaaUTlqIkSE1EickEQxbx-l5u95iX6uVNAtX6URzSJTV64jxe5a_uZfykW5sbq2tzLYlRqtqUciMy1ux6e8upkMb1zkiWVXGfLlYkR-4PuPZa4-Jk_T/s512/P1080524.JPG" border="0" /></a>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-47673289832836683122010-08-15T18:25:00.000+01:002010-08-15T18:25:24.386+01:00go car go<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFIAGpkbzAw/TGWgdM9e6KI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/8ywtmMoDBv8/s1600/P1080220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhC-HU_I1KZl6_xk-kROGivv8oL5WpI2zjk18qQn7Z9ic2f4KBJP3fHwywLbOlMDc19CvGCitdsIXF30XmiuoprIaWDcm6tap6c6LjKOJcslA17hP4gr1yhCEj_GtGADFKrGUbrA/s1600/P1080198_2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhC-HU_I1KZl6_xk-kROGivv8oL5WpI2zjk18qQn7Z9ic2f4KBJP3fHwywLbOlMDc19CvGCitdsIXF30XmiuoprIaWDcm6tap6c6LjKOJcslA17hP4gr1yhCEj_GtGADFKrGUbrA/s200/P1080198_2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT-Gz7is9kdG0l4o8ArHKeUbEqfPv_gZBbYEz-SmPsMqv1I8ZZwRHJAib0SZHMrV4xc4B2DjP2sDp6YbpqhFFcoGMeWiyQTl0BMX8Seu439Sr-rwBL-c3ABmOd8Hu5CBosRi1NaQ/s1600/P1080222.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFIAGpkbzAw/TGWgdM9e6KI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/8ywtmMoDBv8/s1600/P1080220.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_cFIAGpkbzAw/TGWgdM9e6KI/AAAAAAAAB5Q/8ywtmMoDBv8/s200/P1080220.jpg" width="200" /></a><br />
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Trina and Leandro joined Denise and I in Barcelona for a few days and after seeing other people zooming about the city in these funny little yellow cars, Leandro got it into his head that we ought to do it. We had a hilarious time, what with our unwillingness to follow the instructions of the GPS system that was telling us where to go and its tendency to tell us after we passed a street that we were supposed to have turned up that one it was amazing that we found our way around as well as we did.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 18px;"><pre style="font-family: Monaco, 'Lucida Console', consolas; font: normal normal normal 1em/130% Monaco, 'Lucida Console', consolas, monospace; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: initial; outline-style: none; outline-width: initial; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><blockquote>We had seen the bright yellow "go cars", with their speed racer black stripe, zooming up the hill and through Barcelona the night before and we all were excited about the idea of having our turn at stylishly taking in the view. Matt (an IT genius) had googled and youtubed the cars finding the site, booking and researching what it would be like.</blockquote><blockquote>I was crapping myself about driving one (we had a go car per couple) I had never driven on the right side of the road before and European traffic has always given me the heebies. But once inside the go car and on our way it was great fun. Matt looked extra sexy in his open black motorbike helmet, somehow pulling off a "Chips" look. I looked more like the escaped special needs version of the biker from Village People.</blockquote><blockquote>The three wheel mopeds flew across the streets, naughtily we hit speeds of up to 60 miles an hour, albeit down hill. (Matt and Denise insisted theirs was slower, sure guys, good excuse).</blockquote><blockquote>We got terribly lost and then stuck in a traffic jam on La Ramblas while the GPS lady started to sound more like a repeating rapstar than a navigation system, that is if she was talking at all. But the fun factor was through the roof and Matt now has some great photos and video footage of us buzzing our way round the immigrant quarter and up the mountain, past Colombus and winding through many small side streets, beeping our horns cheerily as peoples faces brightened to see these crazy little yellow speed cars.</blockquote><blockquote>I would recommend it to anyone going to Barcelona or the other cities where it is available, it's not cheap but it was worth every penny, it's still making me smile inanely just remembering the experience. Though I would say it would be great if the GPS was more interactive and you had more choice of setting an itinerary and destinations. Plus I think the lady in the small GPS box in car 36 might need a reboot. Cheers guys, brilliant fun and a great laugh!</blockquote></pre></span></blockquote>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-10675562445136175272010-08-02T19:13:00.000+01:002010-08-02T19:13:36.964+01:00Barcelona<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-YFdCCcKM84HL24pOjLzJkdXPdhyphenhyphen5hTlUYZsivqe1oIPbzDsa-uf5xPCrL2BOeigRnir5TvyG0uFR9gYA7xqcsluuObHB8rLIxgcJrGJPd0-C0J7jpVNPll8-7zX6oV6Ti4-bQ/s1600/IMG_0002.JPG"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM-YFdCCcKM84HL24pOjLzJkdXPdhyphenhyphen5hTlUYZsivqe1oIPbzDsa-uf5xPCrL2BOeigRnir5TvyG0uFR9gYA7xqcsluuObHB8rLIxgcJrGJPd0-C0J7jpVNPll8-7zX6oV6Ti4-bQ/s400/IMG_0002.JPG" border="0" alt="" style="clear:both;float:left; margin:0px 10px 10px 0;" /></a> Been doing lot's of relaxing and a little painting in Barcelona. Days are full of trips to the fresh food market, siestas and dodging all the people who fill the streets. Nights seem to start late and finish just before the sun comes up with drumming not far from our window. Very good to be back here.<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-12874263992885463602010-06-15T21:36:00.000+01:002010-06-15T21:36:25.365+01:00standing up<a href='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFIAGpkbzAw/TBfgNuYF0rI/AAAAAAAAB1k/GCYjxVHKIi4/s1600/IMG_0671.JPG'><img src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFIAGpkbzAw/TBfgNuYF0rI/AAAAAAAAB1k/GCYjxVHKIi4/s320/IMG_0671.JPG' border='0' height='150px' alt=''style='margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' /></a><a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMGygszjnqDSliYJVRL56cT1eTxMogV_qL57VtCywhQ7gdxCZlGnpF0DEaz4jZwX1LIIpJUha8KtkKSuNQ-zG-nKcqJ7GAOb1ro10-pOUpS-gCKxsGElSS42nBrmT4OJXTYUzYYQ/s1600/IMG_0672.JPG'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMGygszjnqDSliYJVRL56cT1eTxMogV_qL57VtCywhQ7gdxCZlGnpF0DEaz4jZwX1LIIpJUha8KtkKSuNQ-zG-nKcqJ7GAOb1ro10-pOUpS-gCKxsGElSS42nBrmT4OJXTYUzYYQ/s320/IMG_0672.JPG' border='0' alt=''style='margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' /></a><a href='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBloCIjtro2iKSE7q7OTYzDJT5t9WuIsIVs8u2L4CEDrDSwoCKAm3-hsgG2osw5-zif9YNN0heCgwzj6k9mCozGcKzcs812j7Gmoo6BTadgcv80JC5oFdSwGgO6W84xo_Rm849QQ/s1600/IMG_0670.JPG'><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBloCIjtro2iKSE7q7OTYzDJT5t9WuIsIVs8u2L4CEDrDSwoCKAm3-hsgG2osw5-zif9YNN0heCgwzj6k9mCozGcKzcs812j7Gmoo6BTadgcv80JC5oFdSwGgO6W84xo_Rm849QQ/s320/IMG_0670.JPG' border='0' alt=''style='margin:0px 10px 10px 0;' /></a> <br />
3 paintings I did this evening. nice way to start the mini-weekend.<br />
<div style='clear:both; text-align:LEFT'><a href='http://picasa.google.com/blogger/' target='ext'><img src='http://photos1.blogger.com/pbp.gif' alt='Posted by Picasa' style='border: 0px none ; padding: 0px; background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: initial; -moz-background-origin: initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: initial;' align='middle' border='0' /></a></div>Matthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9282624.post-53854832664140618762010-06-09T13:35:00.000+01:002010-06-09T13:35:45.758+01:00Blinding Light<div style='text-align:center;margin:0px auto 10px;'><a href='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFIAGpkbzAw/TA-JNRlOHGI/AAAAAAAABy0/-pC20UiQKNg/s1600/P1080109.JPG'><img src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_cFIAGpkbzAw/TA-JNRlOHGI/AAAAAAAABy0/-pC20UiQKNg/s400/P1080109.JPG' border='0' alt='' /></a> </div>feeling a tiny bit like a character from TRON i visited Anthony Gormley's <em><a href="http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/Antony%20Gormley/">Breathing Room III</a></em> today and managed to get this photo before i got told offMatthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06282183583566563379noreply@blogger.com0