Monday 12 April 2010

WHAT'S THAT GOT TO DO WITH IT?






Context is important to any art student or practicing artist. Part of the enjoyment of my artist research is making the sketchbook to put it into. One day, I would love to learn to book bind and letter press this part of my practice properly, but for now, pritt stick and moleskins will suffice.



SCRIBBLES AND QUIBBLES

As much as I like the prints from my first few weeks at Brighton, they are not really what I’m about - well not at the moment anyway. So here are a few pages from my sketchbook.

For the last few months I have been looking at the strange way our commuting culture allows us to go against our core primal instincts. Often on trains and tubes commuters will fall asleep surrounded by complete strangers. This in itself goes against our pre programmed psychology. To fall asleep, we must entrust our surroundings completely and in a society paranoid to the extreme, this cultural normality contradicts the social mistrust paramount to city culture.











So thats the technical blah out of the way. I just am fascinated by drawing and people. Especially when those people don’t know I’m doing it. Creep.


Wednesday 7 April 2010

WITH LOVE, FROM BRIGHTON





Just a snap or two of the work I did in the first few weeks at Uni. These were my first lino cuts and wood cuts.

CALL ME ISH... MILLIE, PLEASE.

Hello!

Well this is my first post on my redunculously NEW blog. I've never had one before but I have had many diaries. Hopefully this will be much more successful than any of those. Although it has taken me way too long to create it (if the designers at Blogger only knew) I will be posting away over the next few days.

xxx