Monday, January 26, 2015

The Virtual Archive: Lorna Green

From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women's Art Library, my site-specific installation of digital prints with content derived from the Women's Art Library, will be on view at Goldsmiths College from 2 - 30 March, 2015.


In  tandem with the project, I am inviting selected artists with documentation in the WAL archive to send me images of recent work to feature on this project blog. 


Lorna Green is a sculptor and environmental artist who makes work in public places. She describes her practice: 


I have worked throughout the UK and overseas in urban and rural landscapes, indoors and outdoors and have made sculptures which have been both permanent and temporary. My sculpture is site-specific in that it relates totally to the site, taking into consideration the architecture, landscape, history, economy, ecology or mythology of the area.



Conch shell and drawings for El Eco del Pasada


El Eco del Pasada / Echo of the Past, 28 x 18 metres, White lime & pigment, Tufia,Gran Canaria. Photo: Javier Suarez


El Eco del Pasada video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=niS3sorZfog  



La Mouette/The Seagull,  4 x 9  x 2 metres, Paint, branches, 2014, Tessy-sur-Vire, France


I use a wide variety of materials relevant to the project -- wood, stone, bricks, steel, brass, bronze, plantings, rope, sand, water, glass, light, plastics, even feather, silk flowers, cans, hay and snow. I enjoy working on both large and small scales.




River, 2011, 8 x 12 x .5 metres, Limestone gritstone, glass, paint. Entrance to Darwen Leisure Centre, Lancashire, UK


La Cloche Perdue, 2013, 7 x 1.5 metres, Wood branches, cane, paint, Savoie, France


Lorna Green:                    http://www.lornagreen.com


Women's Art Library:       http://www.gold.ac.uk/make/


Anne Krinsky:                   http://www.annekrinsky.com 


From Absorb to Zoom:    http://www.annekrinsky.com/annekrinskynews.html



Monday, January 19, 2015

The Virtual Archive: Tricia Gillman

From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women's Art Library, my site-specific installation of digital prints with content derived from the Women's Art Library, will be on view at Goldsmiths College from 2 - 30 March, 2015.


In  tandem with the project, I am inviting selected artists with documentation in the WAL archive to send me images of recent work to feature on this project blog. 


In her earlier acrylic paintings Tricia Gillman layers decorative motifs, natural forms and geometrical marks. Here she describes her recent drawings, made on found materials. Moment was selected for the 2014 Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition.


Moment, made on a piece of torn cardboard box, is a material layering of fragments of thoughts, partial words, "now" marks, which evolve into a physical presence over time.  




Moment, 40 x 43 cms, 2014, Drawing materials on torn cardboard box



Connect, 30 x 20 cms, 2014, Drawing materials on found cardboard



These drawings mark a sea-change for me. After 30-odd years of engrossment with the challenges, delights and skills of "picture-making", my priorities shifted towards a desire to register unadorned, primary experiences of time, of just being there. I felt the need to jettison all references outside the mark itself; the touch, the movement, the pulse, the indexical evidence of behaviour as a mirror or a paradigm for being. 


Day by Day 13 x 15 cms, 2014, Pencil on sketchbook back


Today, 24 x 20 cms, 2014, Drawing materials on Newsprint



The different series of drawings explore ways of making "a diary", something that records (time, movement, sensation, thought) but does not set out to evoke or refer, except as a by-product of materials and processes. The desire is to accrue a surface which can absorb, retain and breathe evidence of an investment in being, awareness and value of time past and future, held within time present.



Each Day, 25 x 24 cms. 2014, Drawing materials on found cardboard



Tricia Gillman:                   http://www.triciagillman.co.uk


Women's Art Library:       http://www.gold.ac.uk/make/




Tuesday, January 13, 2015

The Virtual Archive: Katie Pratt

From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women's Art Library, my site-specific installation of digital prints with content derived from the Women's Art Library, will be on view at Goldsmiths College in March 2015.


In  tandem with the project, I am inviting selected artists with documentation in the WAL archive to send me images of recent work to feature on this project blog. 


Katie Pratt makes abstract tactile oil paintings that navigate the space between accident and intent.  



Aztral, Oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm, 2014

Pratt describes her work this way:


I make paintings that start with casual gesture or spilling paint on canvas. The initial action marks friction between intention and chance. I examine and contemplate the patterns and trends in the splashes and organize them using systems and categorization. Protocol is devised upfront and procedure is applied objectively to all incidences - whether trace or obvious - within my own invented legislation. However there is slippage between theory and interpretation, and so the systems evolve in complexity or degenerate as they are implemented. 



Bluixcity, Oil on canvas, 170 x 150 cm,  2013


Heonmemeron, Oil on canvas,  30 x 35 cm, 2014


The work alludes to chaos theory as well as structural evolution, say, a river's tributaries, social networks or urban sprawl.



Lacenet, Oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm, 2014


Kupfercoombe, Oil on canvas, 90 x 60 cm, 2014



Tuesday, January 6, 2015

The Virtual Archive: Julia Vogl

From Absorb to Zoom: An Alphabet of Actions in the Women's Art Library, my site-specific installation of digital prints with content derived from the Women's Art Library, will be on view at Goldsmiths College in March 2015.


In  tandem with the project, I am inviting selected artists with documentation in the WAL archive to send me images of recent work to feature on this project blog. 


Julia Vogl's engaging artworks invite public participation. She describes her practice and some of her projects:


I am interested in mapping place, person, community and architecture. Inspired by the Modernists and William Morris, my social sculptures teeter on design and community work -- ultimately creating colorful abstract data visualizations with people.


In Forecasting Me, I engaged a corporate fashion trend forecasting group to predict their future with shoelaces.



Forecasting Me, Qualifying the likelihood of your future plans, Special commission by WGSN for their W1 Air Art Project Space, London, 2013



I invited visitors to Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust in Bristol, to contribute a stone to a resin-cast Victorian grave ornament urn, symbolising their living relationship to the site.

Future Memorial, In collaboration with Arnos Vale Cemetery Trust, 

Bristol, June 2014- July 2015



I traveled with the Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair this summer, inviting the public to draw a line across the mapped car showing where they were from and where they would like to go.  

   

Past mapping Future, Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, 2014: London, Liverpool Biennial
and Folkestone Triennial



I also have a drawing and print practice inspired by maps and people and am currently working with Luxaflex Roller blinds on integrating my designs into the home.




I made this work with the London Brain Project. It is a representation of a lifetime of seizures from one Epilectic man. 


Timewell Timeline, 2014, 17M x 1M, 72 silkscreen printed panels on card, vinyl, wooden molding and data. Swiss Cottage Library, London