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Brighton Art fair 2011

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Just woke up after a long day rigging the show at Brighton. I was showing my CD engravings, people liked them and I really should do some more.

The PV was heaving, they had to stay open for extra time so everybody could get in. I checked out Alexander Korzer-Robinson again this year. His altered book sculptures gets better and better. It’s very easy to copy Joseph Cornell but very difficult to say anything new.

Off to help at Origin in London  tomorrow where Susi Hines and Maya Selway are showing. I need an assistant or three ….

Autumn shows

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Brighton Art fair : 12 PM Twelve Printmakers 

Dates : Thursday 22nd September 6.00pm – 8.30pm (ticket only)
Friday, 23rd September 11.00am – 7.30pm
Saturday, 24th September 10.00am – 6.00pm
Sunday, 25th September 10.00am – 5.00pm Venue : Corn Exchange, Church Street Brighton, BN1 1UG

It’s great to be back again this year. I’m showing the lithograph/monoprints from my Changeling series Bestarios de ensueño as well as reviving some of my CD engravings based on song titles. Come and snap up your copy of Trout mask replica.

CATOS 2011 : Open studio

Dates : Saturday 1 October 2011. 11.00 – 6.00pm.
Venue : My studio.

The annual CATOS safari where you can observe me in my natural habitat. I’ll be working on the box works for the Minories show so it’s a chance to see how they are progressing and also to see the prints from Brighton.

Such Stuff : an event of film, performance and drawing

Dates :

Launch event : Friday 21 October 2011. 7.30 – 9.00pm. Includes a performance and the first screening of the film. There is also a preview for press/networking on the same day, so please get in touch if you’d like a personal invitation to that.

Static show : Saturday 22nd October to Tuesday 6th December 2011

Closing event : “Everything must go.” Monday 5 December 2011 6.00 – 8.00pm
Performance and public auction of work.

Venue : The Minories 74 High St. Colchester, Essex CO1 1UE.

This show brings together several parts of my working life and has been really exciting to make. It combines film, performance, drawing and box installation and has become my requiem for all that redundant media and all those forgotten messages.

I hope you can come to the launch event, which is the only time you will be able to experience all the work in it’s entirety. At the end of the static show we will be pulling the show apart in an event called “Everything must go”. Such Stuff will then only exist in our memories, leaving “not a wrack behind” so I hope to see you before it goes.

Such Stuff at The Minories coincides with the opening of Firstsite at the same location. This beautiful building is designed by Rafael Viñoly as an internationally important arts centre.

Such Stuff at the Minories : I love the burnt stick

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Just finished a week on the big drawings. Aaaaaaaaaaaaah that’s better, to have finished the animation and to have got back into my comfort zone. There is something about charcoal – the most primitive and the most sensitive of materials. I also found out from a science programme on the radio that carbon was one of the first materials to appear after the Big Bang. We are made from soot and silicon. Perfect.

Now I can start on the box installations. Despite the wobbly moments I love this job.