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Sequential Drawing Research 2013: On-going studio-based work.

My studio drawing practice for M.A. collected in one place. The

work is automatic, subconscious and does not set not to illustrate

theory but obviously my reading around subject (especially film)

is influencing output. This is an ongoing project.

Studio Diary11: May 23rd Cartoon Droodles?

My biggest inspiration A book called Droodles which I got from a jumble salewhen a kid .most famous droodle is the cover of Zappas Ship arriving too lateto save a drowning witch (below)..so now you know is not pop art, minimalism

or a profound theory is DROODLES These drawings are profound meditationson the hinterland and liminal spaces between inbetween-ness in a multidisciplinary meditation on landscape, time and sequentiality specifically the firstand second sequential moments (my theoretical tagging of the invention of

cinema or was it animation? (1888 LePrince) and the second moment youtube1995.)..so now you know..then again it could be a droodle

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Studio Diary 10: 13th May: Sequential Drawings?A rapid set of drawings playing with idea of cartoon abstraction, comic strip andfilmsequential narratives on a fixed canvas?

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Studio Diary 9: 7th May Burolandschaft?

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A very hot day and studio a little cooler than expected which good. Stillmanaged to create three drawings despite also reading photo related itemsspecifically about early photography ( Lady Elizabeth Eastlakes Review fromLondon Quarterly Review).

Had a fascinating message from an architect doing a PhD at the University ofTasmania who picked up on the recent drawings. He said they reminded him ofthe German Burolandschaft workplace drawings of the Quickborner Team of1960s.

I did some hasty research (Googled it) and came up with drawings he referringto which were fascinating (see below). The connection is not entirely strange asI have been regarding these drawings a s cumulative memory maps of my

hometown/landscape. I am coming at it from a fine art viewpoint which moreinfluenced by artists like Simon Lewty (http://www.artfirst.co.uk/simon_lewty/)and Aboriginal Bark Painting (signifiers of place) as much as maps and graphicdiagrams. The idea of linking this further to architectural diagrams/theoryfascinating. I shall be delving deeper. Especially as the drawings above show

Caruso St John plans for the new Arts Council officesironically

http://www.carusostjohn.com/media/artscouncil/new_national_office/introduction/index.html

For one of the drawings I sectioned the page into staves or cartoon strips totry out some sequential abstract narrative notions I have. This could lead tosome large painted/drawn canvases for final show.

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Studio Diary8 : 30 April. Home.

Strange couple of days paintinganything but canvas though. Front of house,bathroom , shed you name it if it didnt move I painted it with white gloss. Afterthat i finally sat down in home studio to do some graphic work. The resulting

three drawings above. First one i consciously trying to stay small in mark-making. Middle one I did blind to see if it loosened things up and finally a veryfast drawing to try and preclude conscious acts. Finally I drew the countryalphabet above which comes from a slightly different angle and refers way backto a alphabet of symbols I built up in late eighties. I will scan some examplesfrom sketchbook next time I in proper studio to compare with image abovewhich actually more aligned with Mariscal than abstract expressionism or PaulKlee.

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Studio Diary 7: 17 April: Presentation andbeyondThe Bauhaus

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Presentation for MA students. A slightly odd experience. Especially whenintroduced as a graduate.

Back to studio and more subconscious un-directed drawing.

Hidden messages.crazy thoughtsmad equations..exploded peanutscharactersback to paul kleetaking the line for a walk..Bauhaus.

Found this fantastic image by Paul Klee of structure of the Bauhaus not unlikemy plan for M.A. drawings ha ha ha.it all connects.

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Studio Diary 6 : April 9th

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text drawing cartoon fragments Right and left hand drawing

cartoon text 1 cartoon text 2

Finally back in studio after Easter break and torn between the reading requiredfor the Film History paper for Amsterdam and keeping drawing experimentsgoing. In the end managed both. Above are drawings I did as usual trying not to

think almost automatic and the larger ones at bottom slightly different. Inspiredby some recent text paintings of my friend Zenon I played around with notion oftext as drawing. I then produced the strange calligraphy like hill drawing. Notsure exactly where this going but does seem to be laying on borderline betweencartoon, text and drawing. I was reminded a lot of the Abstract Expressionistdrawings I looked at a lot in the 1980s.

Also been flicking through a MarukamiCatalogue:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami

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Studio Diary 5: Couple of drawings

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Continuing the automatic drawings which I have started doing in studio whenwaiting for software to fall over or repair itself..or machinery to workor when Inot reading up about impressionist painting and photography I do these small

doodles..

I not thinking about them just letting them fall as they might and will analyselater.

Starting to look like graphic designers maps:-)

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Studio Diary 4: Digital Drawing?

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I finally managed to get some things working in studio after the old XP laptopthat I had managed to set up the larger tablet on failed. I have upgraded slightlyan old toshiba laptop thrown out by work and after ripping the now dead screenoff it have a serviceable digital drawing workstation at last. the new cheapMedion tablet (3.99 from Oxfam!) actually works ok with Windows 7. I then

drew a couple of digital versions of the daily doodle that I have been doing instudio when there. Not with any great research output in mind but just to keephand in and to start thinking about the glorious art object.

Below are these digital drawings and the comparable real works. Interesting towork with similar materials in digital and physical space. Two are digital rest aredrawn and scanned.

The strange thing is that the two digital drawings are much free-er and lessdigital than the hand drawn ones. I felt less prescribed as was trying out tabletand also trying out various brush sizes and effects whereas with pens I had anarrower range of mark-making available ironically ( a large, medium and smallsharpie for those interested in such things and a biro). When using biro as

thinner, scratchier implement I tried to match that in digital arena withphotoshop brushes.

The other interesting thing is the process of trying out some new textures wassame in both processes. Maybe I have used digital pad enough now to feel morecomfortable with it whereas before I always felt inhibited by the technology . Butdoes any of this constitute new knowledge? I started reading ScrivenersHertfordshire essay on knowledge and the art object as preparation for the artobject as cartoon character series.

http://sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpades/vol2/scrivener.html

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Studio Diary 3: Art Magazines & research culture

I spent most of today in studio again for first time in six weeks as illnessprevented me from being there. I went in today with the supervision meetingyesterday for M.A. in the back of my mind. Clarifying the subject of the M.A. as

Graphic Research has helped greatly. However my next decision is how far Ipursue the Frayling argument between now and next September. In what form Iinvestigate the research question when defined (has to be submitted as a newproposal by 7th January) so something to work on over Xmas and finally howmuch of this can I move forward as interrogation of own practice leading to apossible PhD?

To that end I started looking through old art magazines in studio going back to2001. I was looking for mentions of academic research culture in an attempt tofind out when this started affecting what artists produced and the way theyworked. Without going into detail it did seem that by 2003 it was observablewithin magazines to a degree which it wasnt earlier. There is a whole PhD inanalysing this subject in relation to magazines and wider art practice fashionsbut for now i simply cuttiing out references then analysing them as best iIcanwith cartoons drawn over the top. This could develop into a range of artefacts orbe a dead end but seems a useful way of directly looking at shifts in artist self-definitions and institutional advertising.

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Studio Diary 2: Drawing or painting?

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Spent the afternoon in a not too cold studio (it has basic radiators thankfully) as

starting to come out of over two weeks of severe chest infection. After looking atthe neo-primitives below I thought Id try black acrylic paint straight to canvasand compare it with other methods. Pencil and chalk, paint this was because Iforgot to take some Sharpie pens to the studio. So I could theoretically call thisan experimental artefact led methodology although I can only gain qualitativedata. I have posted on facebook so be interesting to see what reaction I get.

I was vaguely thnking of the kind of memory painting Arshile Gorky did (most ofhis major works refer however subliminally back to his Armenian childhood) butafter Id finished the last piece I realised that todays news about HurricaneSandy and the associated imagery had leaked into my sub-conscious. I therefore

named the drawing Sandy.

The smaller image in the gallery of two badges is from 1987 and were a coupleof examples of laminated drawings that I sold in aid of Greenpeace at my show

that year in Hornsey Library. Proving that nothing changes and I was doingBurgerman before he was knee high

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Looking closer other influences which I can see in the drawings include Leger,Mariscal, and Miro all major influences on my late eighties work so it feels like Ihave somehow carried on from a point then of semi-abstraction before I wentmore figurative and lost some of my spontaneity. I picked up a book from mylibrary at studio called Arshille Gorky: The Breakthrough Years. Which I will

examine along with my present reading. I was heavily influenced by a book Isubsequently lost by Harry Rand called Arshile Gorky: the implications ofsymbols (I have now found it as paperback on amazon although out of print).The Gorky fascination is not so much in his application of paint but far more theway he created memory symbols analogous to Miro. These repetitive symbolscame from his childhood. I repeat similar motifs from my past almost like analphabet and maybe analysing where this came from would be productive. Infact at one point I did try to make a pictorial alphabet of simple symbols. I willtry and find the examples I drew. We then stray into both semiotic and literaryterritory. I will leave the deeper examination of this to the research pages

This entry was posted innew paintings,Outsider Art,painting,StudioDiaryonOctober 30, 2012

Studio Diary 1: Practice based research?

Ok so here I am back in the studio at the beginning of the second year of myM.A. by registered project and after a summer of drawing related research I amstanding in front of a very old work on paper (c.1988) and two new canvasesdone over the summer in the time not spent researching Fraylings Categories(which wasnt much). So what do the canvases have to do with research if

anything?

I am struggling already to codify or analyse the works from any kind ofmethodological perspective. The ideas embedded in the paintings are intuitive,visceral (acrylic paint applied to canvas) and come from a half-formed naive ideaof comic forms from looking at various comic and graphic novels and studingPhilip Gustons work in some depth especially his drawings. I did read the book

Night Studio by Musa Meyer which I remember was quite a harrowing accountof how his depressions and rages affected his family ( Musa is his daughter). Itdid however convince in describing the sheer effort that went into his work.

I suppose if I mined back into other works on him I would find material relatingto his genesis of the comic forms that replaced his earlier abstract expressionistperiod. I also own the book Sweeper up after artists by Irving Sandler which Iwas half way through and which is very telling in its depiction of the fraughtnature of post Abstract Expressionist careerism in New York in the early 1960s.But is this researchit is art hostorical research for sure but unless it impacts onmy physical creation of an object could it be said to describe anything but

contextual knowledge. To impact on the creation of an art object surely it hasto be more profound than that?

I am just asking questions here as at the start of a difficult journey. Turning

intuitions, feelings and observations into theoretical research is a hard task. I

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am not convinced as I start this Studio Diary that it at all possible but I maylearn something else in the process.

I am standing looking at the works. Day One. I photograph them so as to showthe similarity in pieces created nearly twenty years apart and in very different

locations and circumstances. Maybe that affects how I create images. Maybe thecontext is more important than I thought.

I am also awed by the quotation from Dickens that I discover Guston had on hiswall, which he held to, about complete devotion to the cause. I have never liked

sunday painting but never had the means to devote my life to painting and thisthe reason I have stopped painting for long periods. I found an interesting articleonline by chance detailing Guston in the studio by Dore Ashton.

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This appears to be completely available online at:

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Now heres some art history to get my teeth into.

Quite a start..but is it research?

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research,Studio Diary,Studio PracticeonOctober 10, 2012.

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