tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90668077487727134942024-02-19T08:09:46.437+00:00Jolly Green MonkeyPAINTINGS.. DRAWINGS.. WORKS IN PROGRESS.. EXHIBITIONS ..Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-54035184110730517632014-08-29T23:37:00.000+01:002014-08-29T23:37:16.743+01:00Observations From the Back Room<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
These are images of an exhibition I held in Edinburgh with the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheNewObscurists">'New Obscurist</a>' group called Observations From The Back Room.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">'Tomorrows World' Oil, acrylic, enamel and concrete on board.</td></tr>
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Panoramic view of the main gallery space showing works by myself and <a href="http://www.allanjrobertson.co.uk/">Allan Robertson</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Installation by Mark Powell, with silversmithing, found objects and handmade masks.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Work by Allan J Robertson</td></tr>
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<br />Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-47992753108595562572014-05-06T03:31:00.000+01:002014-05-06T03:31:04.774+01:00Exhibitions: Translations at the Moray Art Centre<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Poster for an exhibition I will be having with <a href="http://allanjrobertson.co.uk/">Allan Robertson</a> and <a href="http://www.eligius.co.uk/">Mark Powell</a> at the <a href="http://www.patriothallgallery.co.uk/">Patriothall Gallery</a> in Stockbridge. This exhibition will be under the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheNewObscurists">'New Obscurists'</a> group.</div>
Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com1Stockbridge, Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, UK55.958501122853384 -3.206795454025268655.958223122853383 -3.2074259540252688 55.958779122853386 -3.2061649540252684tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-34431109427794520482013-06-27T17:50:00.003+01:002013-06-27T17:50:52.974+01:00Walking - progress<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
Images of a work I am doing at the moment which will form part of a larger group of paintings. This painting started with me working out the ratio of space from top to bottom. I wanted to split the board into 3 equal lines - the sky, wall and pavement. This was then overlaid with drawings of the figures. I did the figures first building up the detail on them and making up the skin tones by building up layers of washes of colour. I then did the detail in the wall.</div>
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Finished images of the painting to come soon..</div>
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Images of the Parralax Art Fair I took part in last year.</div>
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This image and the one below show the process of measuring the pieces for hanging and layout. This was helpful to work out what works to take and how to lay them out due to the space constraints in the venue.<br />
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My work in situ with the other artists work around.<br />
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The layout of the work, due to the small scale of the space available I chose to go for a mix of mainly smaller scale work with a couple of larger paintings.<br />
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Below are images of part of a triptych I am working on for a forthcoming exhibition. The images show progress from initial marking out of the painting on the ground to the blocking in process. More images to come and info on upcoming exhibition!</div>
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An example of one of the paintings I did for my recent painting at the <span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://www.theoldambulancedepot.co.uk/">Old Ambulance Depot.</a></span><br />
Starting off with the patenation of the copper I drew on the design for the monument (based on various monumental places around the world). This painting was done as a double to the other painting I made for the exhibition called Monument which showed a German WWI monument, run down but brooding. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>The Making o</b></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><b>f
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Alex Tobin</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">It’s raining
heavily when Augustus Veinoglou lets me into the Old Ambulance Depot.
Outside the Depot, an increasing layer of water floats the building
like an artificial island. Indoors, curators Veinoglou, Scott
McCracken and Allan J Robertson have coordinated a series </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">of
highly consonant installations into a sort of pan-European
archipelago. It seems feasible that </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Making of It</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
might have floated here.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Two hours before opening, the
exhibition is more-or-less ready to go. Everyone is busily squatting
around something: Deniz Guvensoy and Irfan Donmez around the bundles
of red Turkish flag balloons they are preparing; Veinoglou, McCracken
and Clare Flatley around laptops, talking with Swiss artists Dominik
Lipp and Bruno Schlatter over Skype. Lipp, currently shirtless, is
gesturing excitedly to a massive felt-tip pen wall-chart behind him
in Switzerland. He and Schlatter will be conducting a game of
something-like-chess with the crowd here in Edinburgh. As a test run,
I roll some dice and show them to the MacBook camera he’s viewing
the exhibition through, for which he thanks me profusely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">This casual ease
of international communication is a recurrent theme in the
exhibition. The assembled works, based on notions of process,
represent a fictional European utopia where national boundaries are
fluid and pass through each other. For all the disparate cultures
present, the works are surprisingly congruous, and communicate
fluently. As you walk around the space, fragments of sculptures and
paintings disassociate themselves from each other: budding off into
independent organisms, or serendipitously coinciding with their
neighbours. The whole exhibition is vividly fractal in nature –</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
humorous</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
colourful, resembling itself at each level.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Talking to
Veinoglou and McCracken, this visual affinity sounds more fortuitous
than planned. The show has grown naturally from acquaintance and good
networking. Each work was developed in the space in accordance with
the central stimulus, “Process”. This organic development works
in the exhibition’s favour, producing a great amount of visual
rhyme and thematic consistency.</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
Eilidh</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
McPherson’s colourful painting </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Do
the fish even know it’s raining?</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">,
for example, sits next to McCracken’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Uncertainty</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
like a close sibling. Flatley’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Process</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and Veinoglou’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Newcomer</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
neatly benefit from their closeness to each other, each amplifying
the other’s structural motifs.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Martin Campbell’s
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Workshop</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
dominates the entrance to the exhibition. It’s intriguingly joyful
and technical in equal measure – a functional wax-making
workspace cast as installation. Later in the exhibition, Campbell
will hold an actual workshop here. Joseph Calleja’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>1.2.4.8.16.</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
– a row of glass panels held under its own weight by a clamp – is
tense, eerie and fragile, and seems to defy physics. Roz McKenzie
does something very different with glass: her </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Greed</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Puff
Piece</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
are political and quite hilarious.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">While </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Making Of It </i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">posits
an alternate version of Europe, Donmez’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Alternate
Body</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
reconfigures human anatomy in a similar fashion, to particularly
squeamish effect. It may be enlightening to imagine the countries of
Europe changing places with each other – the same thought
experiment with organs is unsettling. Andrew Smith’s series of
textured paintings are similarly disquieting – somewhat dark in
tone, depicting corrosion of buildings and people.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Niko Mantzios’
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End of the Protagonists</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
and Robertson’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Hinterland</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
share a clean graphic style and urban subject matter. Where
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is stark and bright, </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Protagonists</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is warm and quirky. Guvensoy’s </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Bosphorus</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
considers the titular Strait at the edge of Europe. Pyramidal stacks
of Turkish flag balloons surmount a series of map-based meditations
on boundaries and coastlines. Taking up the wall at the end of the
Ambulance Depot, </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>Bosphorus</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
is an appropriate demarcation of the exhibition’s border, marking
the edge of this crypto-European archipelago. Outside the Old
Ambulance Depot, a Bosphorus made of rainwater cuts us off from
continental Edinburgh.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">Union (or</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
ununion</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">)
is currently a prominent element of public discourse. The Eurozone is
newly introspective; Scotland is considering what being a “nation”
should mean. </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US"><i>The
Making Of It</i></span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
proposes a method of union at the human, sociocultural level. It</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">
emphasises</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US">
the value of cultural networks and fortuitous international
acquaintance – celebrating altruistic interaction beyond the
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These are some pictures showing the progress of a painting I made for my recent group exhibition, the 'Making Of It'. The painting is Untitled at the present. I used a large very thick piece of wood to make the painting on, several people commented that they thought it was a door frame.</div>
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After sanding, priming, sanding, priming etc. I drew out the figure and blocked in the basics. </div>
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Then the coat got some colour and I roughly painted in areas of shade. More layers on face/hands as well.</div>
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Once I had finished the coat area I began on the blue checked fabric at the bottom, adding in light and shade.</div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The performance involved Dominik and Bruno giving instructions to members of the public they chose (via a camera on our end so they could see the crowd) who they then told to draw certain things on to the board they were being projected onto. This continued until the board had been covered and at the end of the night when everything was shut off the final results could be seen.</span><br />
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<br />Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-34800682619438974172012-06-02T21:34:00.000+01:002012-06-02T21:34:38.883+01:00The Making Of It<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This exhibition involves 14 artists from around Europe working with totally different mediums/subject matters. It should make for an enjoyable and ever changing exhibition! As well as 2D works there will also be live performances by <span style="color: lime;"><a href="http://ragandboneworkshop.co.uk/"><span style="color: lime;">Martin Campbell</span></a>, <span style="color: lime;">Augustus Veinoglou</span></span> and <a href="http://www.dominiklipp.net/"><span style="color: lime;">Dominik Lipp</span></a>. Also some of the artists, for example <a href="http://www.allanjrobertson.co.uk/"><span style="color: lime;">Allan Robertson</span></a>, intend to make paintings during the duration of the exhibition allowing visitors to see the space changing if the keep coming back. We also have a dedicated blog for the duration of the exhibition were we will be posting images and video of the performances and other artwork in the exhibition - </span><a href="http://themakingofit.wordpress.com/"><span style="color: lime; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://themakingofit.wordpress.com/</span></a>. </div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We are also involved in two festivals for the duration of the exhibition - firstly the <a href="http://www.embassygallery.org/"><span style="color: lime;">Embassy Annuale</span></a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/LeithLate/117256438361179"><span style="color: lime;">Leith Late</span></a> festival on the closing night from 6-9pm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway the below painting will not be in my upcoming exhibition but is going to feature in some future plans... </span><span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I will be posting more info on the upcoming exhibition soon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My recent exhibition at the <a href="http://www.whitespace11.com/"><span style="color: magenta;">Whitespace Gallery</span></a> was a show involving myself and <a href="http://unicornskin.blogspot.co.uk/"><span style="color: magenta;">Roz McKenzie</span></a>. The work was a mixture of drawings, painting and contemporary stained glass. To see more of Roz's work click on the link above.. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My work mostly involved drawings but included the watercolours and oil painting hung on this particular wall. The big painting is titled 'Arsenic Mine' and is based on drawings and photographs I took in Cornwall of abandoned arsenic mines which ran down to the cliff edges. I have previous posts on this blog and my other <a href="http://www.andrew-smith-artist.co.uk/"><span style="color: magenta;">website</span></a>. The watercolours were looking at 10 Downing Street and the Houses of Parliament. I was interested in the odd way in which these places represented the heart of our 'democracy' while at the same time looking like a cage. I found the image of tourists staring at fairly mundane scenes through bars at the police officers within like some sort of bizarre zoo. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Downing Street/Parliament watercolours with reflections.</span>Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-19480052112142578912012-04-02T16:58:00.000+01:002012-04-02T16:58:17.405+01:00Redruth and the world of tomorrow...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Having just finished my last exhibition at the Whitespace gallery and I am now in the process of making work for the next one I am having in June. This exhibition will be quite an exciting event involving artists from a wide variety of countries and backgrounds/styles. Watch this space for more info...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As part of my proposal I plan to show a quadriptych of paintings with the each showing a different aspect of the others paintings in some respect. I am examining what I think of large scale utopian dreams with the often harsh reality of these movements. The obvious ones being nazism, communism and 60s building programmes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'The world of a past-present, today', collaged imagery. This painting is taking various images and collaging them together. In this picture I am looking at the utopian ideal of clean lines, straight buildings and huge plazas. But even in this image I am looking at creating a sense of unease, the image is empty - no people or any nature either. And the building could just as easily be a prison as a modernist housing block.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I hope to show these paintings plus 2 more and one large piece (space permitting!) in the next exhibition.</span></div>Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-91711214856822954292012-02-27T00:39:00.000+00:002012-02-27T00:39:43.692+00:00Exhibition at the Whitespace Gallery Edinburgh<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am having an exhibition at the <a href="http://www.whitespace11.com/">Whitespace Gallery</a> in Edinburgh from the 10th till the 15th March. It will be open daily between 11am and 4pm. The opening is on the 10th and drinks will be served! We hope to see you along, the address us 11 Gayfield Square, Edinburgh, EH1 3NT.<br />
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<br />Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-65758936804796959472011-07-19T00:31:00.000+01:002011-07-19T00:31:27.183+01:00The Tin MineI finished the Cornish Tin mine painting a couple of weeks ago, thought I would post the results on here. After some painstaking dot action I was able to complete the grassy foreground area. I was most pleased with the (subtle) results. No one will probably even notice the dots, I am however quite happy to know they are there and that there are literally hundreds of them. Next painting I do it on I should really keep a count and mark it somewhere on the canvas.. Anyway here are some pics:<br />
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Dots in the sky, dots on the ground...<br />
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I was back in Cornwall recently and was within a stones throw of the site this painting represents. It was interesting to go back and see the area again after over a year.<br />
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The moon and shadows.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">I used it as an opportunity to show works on copper previously exhibited, as well as a new painting on copper.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A view of one of the walls showing works by (from left to right) Allan, Scott, Allan, me, Scott and Allan. The works by Allan are mostly watercolour on prints and Scotts are acrylic on canvas. My painting is oil and enamel on copper. The size of the space was unexpected however it did give us an opportunity to spread the work out more.</div><br />
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A view of the wall on which I hung my copper pieces with a work by Allan (far left) and works by Scott (second from right) and Allan (far right).<br />
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</div>Another shot of the space with my works and various works by Allan, Scott and myself.<br />
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</div>Works by Allan (far left), myself, Scott, Allan and Scott again (far right).<br />
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</div>Various works by Allan and Scott on the walls of the gallery. The space was both interesting and tricky in displaying art works as it had been previously an office, therefore the walls were both long and very bitty.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Works by Scott (left), Allan (middle) and Scott (right).</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The main space of the gallery which was very light, being on the third floor.</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Another shot of the works by Scott (left), Allan (middle) and Scott (right).</div><br />
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This is a body of work I produced for the exhibition, a series of 22 small scale works on wood. Each looked at the city from the often distorting and surprising angle of looking upwards. I used a variety of Media on each, individual images can be seen on my new website soon to be updated (links to which will be posted on here).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">An image showing two works I made (Left and Centre) using copper leaf and patenation with various chemicals as well as oil paint and spray paint. The work to the right is by Allan Robertson, a fellow exhibitor (more of whose work can be seen at http://www.allanjrobertson.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A view of the second room of the exhibition showing works by Allan Robertson (two paintings on the right) and Scott McCracken.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Two paintings by Scott McCracken (more of whose work can be seen on his website at http://www.scottmccracken.co.uk/)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A view of the main room of the gallery showing the view opposite my own paintings.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The exhibition was a great success, as the first one I have had since coming back from Germany and graduating. I hope to produce more works for a joint/collaborative show coming up in November as well as Scratching the Surface Part two at the end of March.</div>Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-58654152836634044332011-02-14T10:55:00.001+00:002011-02-14T10:56:13.008+00:00EXHIBITION : Patriothall/Arts Com?lex<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW55IJ6zov7x4AFms2DQs5K2ywZh9wtMqOBZif997zNx2q4M7dJ4N8oQnqhiAzaQ-bDfZZbv6caZONnnpMiaOJpDeraVqJMANOusha-7cjzPG0B9qR6WbLtRvBwPoolcXBN9VfNZRBuJnN/s1600/page0003.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW55IJ6zov7x4AFms2DQs5K2ywZh9wtMqOBZif997zNx2q4M7dJ4N8oQnqhiAzaQ-bDfZZbv6caZONnnpMiaOJpDeraVqJMANOusha-7cjzPG0B9qR6WbLtRvBwPoolcXBN9VfNZRBuJnN/s640/page0003.jpg" width="451" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I am having an exhibition in two parts, at the Patriothall Gallery in Stockbridge, Edinburgh. The first part will show new paintings, the second part in the Arts Com?lex near Meadowbank Stadium, Edinburgh will showcase drawings and studies.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Exhibition Statement : </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Scratching the Surface is an exhibition of work by three Edinburgh based artists presented in two parts. These exhibitions bring together Scott McCracken, Andrew Smith and Allan Robertson who all work within the medium of painting.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>Each artist has his own motivations and observations, but they are united in their appreciation and practice of paint’s materiality and the possibilities of painting as a contemporary medium.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>The first exhibition will be hosted at the Patriothall Gallery in Stockbridge and will show recent paintings by the artists.<span style="line-height: 17px;"> </span>The second exhibition will take place at Arts Complex at St Margarets House and will showcase recent drawings, prints and smaller works</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Artists Statement:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #2a2a2a; line-height: 17px;"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">Andrew Smith's recent work has been a continuing evolution of previous years' paintings looking at the city in the context of civil liberties and notions of how society is sculpted. Andrew's paintings are representations that are realistic, blending into abstracted forms of the city from the distorted perspectives. </span><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: 24px;"><span class="ecxApple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">I am interested in the strata of society, how this is manifested, be it visually or in a more subtle manner and questioning it through a visual means. The human environment, that is to say one that humans have specifically and systematically sculpted, has been a particularly strong theme that permeates through my work. What interests me about these environments is both their psychological effect and the social/ideological issues that they establish as well as the layers of history they reflect.</span></span></span></span><br />
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The paintings are the small copper paintings I have talked about in previous posts. One of the main inspirations of the pieces was the artists Paul Bril and Adam Elsheimer (images of work available on the National Galleries of Scotland website online collection and in the gallery itself on display). The idea of cabinet paintings inspired the scale of these paintings, a small painting placed in a small room in the house for contemplation and privacy.<br />
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'Mass Games' 20 x 15cm. Acrylic on incised, patenated copper. £350<br />
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'Off Work' 20 x 15 cm. Oil on incised and patenated copper. £350<br />
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'Mass Games' £350<br />
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The paintings are all for sale at £350. Please do pop into the store to take a look at;<br />
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Edinburgh<br />
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Tel. 0131 337 9284Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-13551126543506507232010-09-27T19:12:00.000+01:002010-09-27T19:12:43.818+01:00Public Art Erfurt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Here's some pics of public art from Erfurt, Germany<br />
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A pretty excellent use of a tree I'd say and rather witty too!<br />
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The whole town of Paderborn was revolved around the cathedral (at least in some aspects). The cathedral is the resting place of the relics of St Liborious who draws massive pilgrimages once a year when they are removed from the crypts for public display. It was very interesting looking in the cathedral which was very badly destroyed during the second World War. You could not tell it was refurbished, apart from the stained glass a lot of which was designed by modern artists. In this sketch I wanted to capture the cathedral from a lower angle which got in the Palace of Charlemagne in the mid-ground and the park in the foreground.</span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7nAEMWOTkZCYM4wF-kxXii5doAGLUOZlAkijsvskM6yUynPMPPYOrXqD9lziyUlGGr4OxiAXT5XmT0x3GzSs03OJe1jyhArHBR7oQG-NRcIPeY34ZDGXFoDSnAvw04xDkCIH6KW4aIl2/s1600/Paderborn,+Germany,+Drawings,+Sunsets+081.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 281px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhE7nAEMWOTkZCYM4wF-kxXii5doAGLUOZlAkijsvskM6yUynPMPPYOrXqD9lziyUlGGr4OxiAXT5XmT0x3GzSs03OJe1jyhArHBR7oQG-NRcIPeY34ZDGXFoDSnAvw04xDkCIH6KW4aIl2/s400/Paderborn,+Germany,+Drawings,+Sunsets+081.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508338930563794626" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">When in Paderborn we were staying in the glass workshop of the company Glasmalerei Peters. Peters is a well established and worldwide glass company that produces modern glass project from various buildings, from embassies to renovated churches. They also restore glass. They were very welcoming to us and we enjoyed staying in this building which was full of mad glass everywhere. I wanted to sketch this to capture the original building with the modern glass attachment.</span></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2c2RN0WWyED7AwT-BfTfr_TQiGqbiWkQBSbfiZ5BHWka4aqYHRhKpkmonruwXgTBW3hv29pP4ALXhMe4ouCbSwHuwrLexQ8FFZQvWusJXwlOSbVPJuGOQkYSA1elscZX70b0aI9yuDb-f/s1600/Paderborn,+Germany,+Drawings,+Sunsets+089.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 285px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2c2RN0WWyED7AwT-BfTfr_TQiGqbiWkQBSbfiZ5BHWka4aqYHRhKpkmonruwXgTBW3hv29pP4ALXhMe4ouCbSwHuwrLexQ8FFZQvWusJXwlOSbVPJuGOQkYSA1elscZX70b0aI9yuDb-f/s400/Paderborn,+Germany,+Drawings,+Sunsets+089.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508338919407427234" /></a><br /></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">This sketch is of the medieval city wall of Paderborn. I liked the way it was incorporated into the modern world, history peeking out of the cracks in the city.</span></div>Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9066807748772713494.post-65479620779338204342010-08-01T18:05:00.005+01:002010-08-01T18:26:11.600+01:00Arsenic Mines<div>Here's some pictures of a large scale painting I am working on. It's of Tin Mines in Cornwall and is based on the strange structures left behind on the landscape after the centuries of mining in the area.</div><div><br /></div><div>The remains of what were arsenic mines and processing buildings were dotted all over the landscape close to Lands End. Cornwall was once the world's biggest producer of arsenic, besides copper and tin. See <a href="http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/story/earlymod.htm">http://www.cornish-mining.org.uk/story/earlymod.htm</a> for more info if you are interested. Now all that is left are strange structures rising out of the orange soil like standing stones. The landscape is bleak but beautiful with a strange mix of windswept cliffs and half buried mines dotting the cliff edges. The soil too has a weird colour, the heavy metals present prohibit any type of farming.</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pQHZCCuUZ2rn_nm1JznrA79oo7K7WoEHZxvTDoC_Cr9-kAxWI5M66vJGlEeb_JyeRB9Rj_udd0chnRsd2hvz-XFIBweVVe7JzKnM97TNiRJiow9SpqF7d6B_v1eBXz2dP3pO475zEeN1/s1600/Germany,+Edinburgh,+Dean+Village+080.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6pQHZCCuUZ2rn_nm1JznrA79oo7K7WoEHZxvTDoC_Cr9-kAxWI5M66vJGlEeb_JyeRB9Rj_udd0chnRsd2hvz-XFIBweVVe7JzKnM97TNiRJiow9SpqF7d6B_v1eBXz2dP3pO475zEeN1/s400/Germany,+Edinburgh,+Dean+Village+080.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500489717880207810" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis34qqUs1Dr4HyKqcx6iwY4SIgF8lhREPaSFxtN_qXMG7uTtdwF_P44ZVsanb28R1KlZV-So7IJpgvOUZ0pxah6zM3-kFH4ikRoj3WOggdavVYilsfa7X_Bkx_eiIlZwJ8Ni0SYU-Lk8tR/s1600/Germany,+Edinburgh,+Dean+Village+082.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis34qqUs1Dr4HyKqcx6iwY4SIgF8lhREPaSFxtN_qXMG7uTtdwF_P44ZVsanb28R1KlZV-So7IJpgvOUZ0pxah6zM3-kFH4ikRoj3WOggdavVYilsfa7X_Bkx_eiIlZwJ8Ni0SYU-Lk8tR/s400/Germany,+Edinburgh,+Dean+Village+082.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500489714965253410" /></a><br /><div>In this painting I am working on it in oils, ink and gouache. I intend to have it finished in the next week or so ready for exhibiting and will buy a few more canvas/board of a similar size to do a few more. The subject matter fascinates me, a 'wild' landscape that when viewed closer reveals centuries of heavy industrial activity.</div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGphG8whInXu61dK2DLEdKUs6_pVXCMqCMMeldc3OM5eKH6D8UdpJaD3bDYZ6YlO2n2BN7eV1mOOmw35DFDcIOQ6a7NjCjaZnkz_zOpMbGHtrJxQmZgfuM-44Huw6bTMIKw-PtzAkIj1O/s1600/Germany,+Edinburgh,+Dean+Village+072.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 266px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgGphG8whInXu61dK2DLEdKUs6_pVXCMqCMMeldc3OM5eKH6D8UdpJaD3bDYZ6YlO2n2BN7eV1mOOmw35DFDcIOQ6a7NjCjaZnkz_zOpMbGHtrJxQmZgfuM-44Huw6bTMIKw-PtzAkIj1O/s400/Germany,+Edinburgh,+Dean+Village+072.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5500489704106084130" /></a><br /></div><div>A close up of the concrete pillars. The weathering effect of the Atlantic Ocean made these very beautiful and aged. More detail to come..</div>Jolly Green Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03756091120379071849noreply@blogger.com2