So, I’m currently a part-time tutor on the Foundation course at Hereford College of Arts and each week I take a discourse session in which the students talk about something that interests them to the rest of the group. This week one of the students mentioned the work of Charlie Engman which I found really interesting, particularly his ‘Domestic Diorama’ series.
These look to me like tubes of meat, or chicken carcasses squeezed into uncomfortable positions until you realise they’re human bodies- I find them creepy but strangely compelling and the series makes me imagine some sort of secret murder has taken place. I think their vulnerability is emphasized by the fact that the bodies are a bit blue and goose pimply looking i.e. real people rather than the tanned honey toned limbs we’re used to seeing in modern advertising and imagery.
A friend of mine has been working on a community garden project in Cardiff. Recently the project was featured on TV as viewers voted for the charity they believed was most worthy of the donation money, and the community gardens won! take a peek at the website and see what it’s all about.
I have a craft blog, this is where I procrastinate, although all work is good work? maybe one day I’ll make things out of socks to fuel my rock star lifestyle. Anyway, although it’s still in an embryonic phase take a look here:
This is my most recent creation, I feel slightly ashamed about his lack of arms… but I do like his little belly button, although he will never be able to scratch it.
My friend Alistair recently drew my attention to a competition being held by Dazed and Confused Magazine entitled ‘Decade drawn out’. The brief was simply to illustrate one of a selection of magazine covers taken from the last ten years and put your illustrative mark on it. This is my entry:
and original:
The prize is the chance to be commissioned by Dazed for a future edititorial project, Fingers crossed! the image can be viewed on their website, here
Having recently learnt to crochet during the snow of the last few weeks, I was delighted to receive this link from my friend Holly, let’s just say I have all of next years Christmas presents sorted out already. I think Holly pretty much sums this up by saying ‘Imagine if you were created to simply sit on loo roll to make it look “pretty” ‘
Today I was very excited to find an old (ish) polaroid camera in my local charity shop for the princely sum of £0.95, unfortunately though something seems to be stuck inside and rather than spitting out the black protective cover from the film out then allowing you to take pictures it simply kept disgorging my precious polaroid films exposing them all. The price of these films today means that I was very sad for a while and looked mopishly at e-bay for half an hour as I wondered how long my last box of films would last me. until I spotted this website:
which suggests that someone else might be taking over the production of polaroid films in the near future, which makes me considerably happier, but for the moment I still have my eye on a pack of black and white 600 film from e-bay, hands off!
If you’re reading this, I imagine you’ve worked it out by now, but www.laura-jane-evans.com has been re-designed and re-launched courtesy of UNIQUEsite
It’s lovely to see everything come together after a few initial sketches in a coffee shop meeting, I’m looking forwards to updating and working with this site over the next few years.
The other day I decided I really need to get in gear and promote my website and work ready for the Brighton show in London. With this in mind I sent some work to Creative Review in the hope that it would be put onto their feed of work, and it has! http://www.creativereview.co.uk/feed/june-2009/09/spiritualism
Last night I went with my friend Kyle Bean to the Bodhi Gallery, Brick Lane, London to hear David Wilson talk about the new video he’s created for Moray Mclaren and the song We got time. It was a great evening, before and after the presentation SeeNoEvil showed personal work from contemporary animators and film-makers and then we were treated to a talk about the techniques and inspirations which went into the video.
I’m definitely looking forwards to seeing what David comes up with next.
Shows free and open to the public
Saturday 6 June – Thursday 11 June
Opening hours: Saturday 12noon – 8pm
Sunday 12noon – 6pm
Monday – Wednesday 10am – 8pm
Thursday 10am – 4pm
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Friday 5 June 4 – 7pm (business) 7pm – 10pm (friends and family)
