review of work in progress - march 2013

Year 2 - end of teaching block 2 report

The MA Fine Art story this year - Peter Missen 26/03/2013

Ceramics and Glass workshops now our new MA Fine Art Space

Poignant that we are back in the same space that was such a hive of activity during the summer

Still very pissed off that the fabulous facilities that formerly occupied our new MA space were cast out by the University authorities...

24/7/365 access would be most appropriate for a research degree I had this 25 years ago on my last Masters

degree!

My Influences

Francis BaconTriptychsThe number 3Binary notationHaiku poemsCodes

MA Fine Art end of year show

My RolesAssisting Maggie with coordination

CCi professional practice fund committee member

Treasurer− Community account is set up (£530 so far)

− Spent £7.95 on Tally clickers & £4.00 on mirror plates

Copy editor

Team worker

Been looking for locations as well...

Further Reading undertaken

Manwatching – Desmond Morris

Fuzzy Thinking – Bart Kosko

Chance – Margaret Iversen - Whitechapel Art Gallery

Dada - art and anti-art – Hans Richter

Kenneth Martin – Tate Gallery

This is the Order – Issue 3

Frank Stella – Robert Rosenblum

Mondrian – Whitechapel Art Gallery

Eats, Shoots and Leaves – Lynne Truss

Lost for Words – John Humphrys

Further research

Jeffery SteeleHouse visits

Interview

Talks at Exhibitions

The Rational Aesthetic

Powers of Three – relentlessenergy.com

Bridget RileyPaintings and Drawings 1951-71

Community work

Attend the SSCC meetings– Chaired one meeting

Attended Purple Door event – Jon Adams

Signed up for Help the Aged project

Facilitated at “Create 2013”

Gritty art with Jon Adams

Create 2013

Create 2013 – Art 1 group

Create 2013 – Art 2 group

Exhibitions

Solo show - exhibited 8 paintings at the King's Theatre Southsea in January

Exhibitions to come

Worked on an idea for a show in March - – Was a NIGHTNMARE!!!

– Good learning opportunity! (Marc will tell all)

GASP – liaison with the GASP selection committee for our MA student show in April– Chess set, Japanese jug, binary tablet triptych

MA interim show in June– Meteorite project

MA end of course show in September– Lots of stuff!

A Nightmare on Elm Grove!• Negotiated with Lou at Room 237

• 3 man show – Graham Humphreys, Marc, Me

• For March 13th PV

• One week show

• Secured £500 CCi PPF one-off grant

• All went “belly up” over insurance for Graham

• Despite visits to talk over the situation with 237 staff

• University H&S + Fire Officer visited Room 237

• Made them think about their space!

• Now closing for at least 4 months

• Screwed us for a September location for our MA show

Horror Symposium went ahead

Event poster Graham Humphreys with his poster

@Paint my paintings

Collaboration via the web

Contributed to the first 4 projects

Project 5 on the boil

Facebook/Twitter/YouTube

Organised by Vincent Driscoll

@Paint my paintings

Project number 1 Project number 3

@Paint my paintings

Project number 2 Project number 4

MA Fine Art ProjectsMeteorite

– Multiple installations, paintings, photographs

1,000,000 wishes

– Installation

Chance/Randomness/Indeterminacy

– Installations, film projection

Participation Project

– Standard 20”x30” boards

Pop up project – with pop corn holders

Life drawing

– Multiple media

Meteorite project

Planned Pop Up Art ProjectMeteorites crashed into the earth from another world

Various periods of time throughout history (Zelig)

Multiple locations

Photography at locations/green screen (Barry)

Produce wall prints and book of photos

Need smoke machine, Geiger counter, and lights...

Meteorite project

Sketch by Marc Beattie

Meteorite project

Sketch by Marc Beattie

Meteorite project

Components @November

Meteorite project

Component development

Meteorite project (today)

Meteorite project (today)

Meteorite project (today)

Meteorite project (cave paintings)

Concrete on canvas

Acrylic paint/pastels

Threes feature throughout

1,000,000 Wishes Project

Based on Pete Codling's 1,000,000 Pebbles Project

Wishing well with “bricks” made with Pete's pebbles

Binary pattern in the face of the bricks

3 pebbles per brick representing 3 bits

8 bricks per course therefore 3 bytes per course

6 courses in the well wall therefore 18 bytes total

Pebble themes in each course

Any donations will go to charity

1,000,000 Wishes Project

Sketch by Marc Beattie Sample bricks (face theme)

Chance/Randomness/Indeterminacy

Film taken on 12/12/12 – location Southsea beach

Search for 1 byte (8) of pebbles – nearly 14 minutes long

This year's participation project

Giving folks the sameCanvas board

Picture – scary samurai mask

TaskUse their own style

Produce an art work

Medium of choice

Two completed so far

Marc Beattie Johnny Hammer

Participations so far...

CCi Skills - Life drawing sessions

CCi Skills - Life drawing sessions

Pop up pop corn holders

• Plan to build a giant pyramid in the café

• Up to the roof

• Camera on a tripod in the corner

• Sit at a table near the pyramid

• With camera remote control

• Take photos as people look/pass by

• Photographically document what happens…

Eldon Café pop up…

Later this week!

Photo-documenting local exhibitions

Many Photographic Albums on Facebook

Visits to City Museum, Aspex, GASP, Southsea Library, Room 237,Make! Believe! Make!

Re-Place, Going home, "Talkin’2 to myself..." (Eminem, Recovery, 2010)

Defragmentation

Infamous - adventures in pop culture, CUT STITCH B*TCH KITZCH

Atelier Southsea grand opening

King's Theatre - Southsea

Documenting local exhibitions

Going Home - GASP

Documenting local exhibitions

Documenting local exhibitions

Re-place by Gillian Hawkins @ GASP

"Talkin’2 to myself..." (Eminem, Recovery, 2010) @ GASP

Documenting local exhibitions

"Talkin’2 to myself..." (Eminem, Recovery, 2010) @ GASP

Documenting local exhibitions

Atelier Grand Opening

Documenting local exhibitions

Atelier Grand Opening

Documenting local exhibitions

Atelier Grand Opening

Documenting local exhibitions

Defragmentation @ Southsea Library

Documenting local exhibitions

Make! Believe! Make! Alice Kettle @ City Museum

Documenting local exhibitions

Documenting local exhibitions

Documenting local exhibitions

CUT STITCH B*TCH KITZCH @ 237

Documenting local exhibitions

Infamous - adventures in pop culture @ 237

Trips to Exhibitions

• Professional Image Makers Convention

• London Hilton

• Professional Beauty

• London ExCel

• London Super Comic Conference

• London ExCel

• Focus on Imaging

• Birmingham NEC

London Super Comic Convention

Continued…

Codes – on ceramic slabs

Codes – on ceramic slabs

Codes – on ceramic slabs

Codes – on ceramic slabs

Codes – on ceramic slabs

Codes – on ceramic slabs

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