| Diary Drawing |
[May. 1st, 2008|11:15 am] |
Hope you can make it. All the best LL xx
Diary Drawing:
Gabrielle Bell
David Blandy
Oliver East
Alex Fox
Miriam Katin
Sarah Lightman
Lady Lucy
Mio Matsumoto
Rutu Modan
Ariel Schrag
Rebecca Swindell
Private view: 7-9pm, 8 May 2008
Open: 8-23 May 2008 Wed - Fri 12- 6pm
A Panel discussion with Paul Gravett and exhibiting artists: 6.15-7pm, 8 May 2008.
The Centre for Recent Drawing presents Diary Drawing, an exhibition curated by Sarah Lightman. Diary Drawing, brings together disparate types of visual journals and autobiographical graphic novels to examine drawing and diary making as possess’ of thinking and acting fundamental to human experience. Diary Drawing explores the application of line as a means of documenting or transcribing intimate and individual histories to a public audience.
Lightman has included artists who use conventional idioms of comic making alongside more exploratory employment of materials: cigarettes are drawn on as well as sketch books and an online blog. The artworks included show diary drawing as a method of documenting performance, journeys, romantic disappointments, the survival of the Nazi Holocaust and cancer. This exhibition also includes artworks that use diary drawing as a method of pursuing fictitious autobiographies.
This show will tour to The School of the Arts, Northampton University, for Paraliterary Narratives; Reassessing the ‘Graphic Novel’ 6-7th June 2008
Acknowledged by The Times as "the greatest living historian of the comics and graphic novel form in this country", Paul Gravett is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster about international comics and director of the Comica festival at London's Institute of Contemporary Arts. In 2008, he curated Manhua! China Comics Now, the first exhibition of contemporary Chinese comics in the UK, part of the China Now festival. His latest books with Peter Stanbury are The Mammoth Book of Best Crime Comics (Robinson) and the forthcoming Incredibly Strange Comics (Aurum). www.paulgravett.com
The exhibition will coincide with the presentation as part of C4RD's online residency programme of published entries of the diary of artist Daphne Warburg Astor, who has kept a visual and written diary for forty years.
Press enquiries please contact Sarah Lightman 07811394315 |
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| Plan 9 Auction Friday 21st September |
[Aug. 30th, 2007|06:47 pm] |
PLAN 9 CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION
FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER 2007
Champagne & Chocolate Preview 6-7pm
Auction starts at 7pm
Church of St Thomas, St Thomas Street, Bristol, BS1 6QR
Plan 9 is offering a unique opportunity to buy contemporary art work from
established UK and emerging Bristol-based artists at our Contemporary Art
Auction.
Artists include Claire Barclay, Marcus Coates, Ruth Claxton, Sue Tompkins,
Hayley Tompkins, Harrison & Wood, as well as work from emerging Bristol-based
artists.
A special champagne and chocolate preview will enable potential buyers to view
the work and chat to the artists before the auction gets underway.
The work can be viewed two weeks before the auction on the Plan 9 website
http://www.plan9.org.uk, where viewers will be able to place bids in advance
and read more about the artists and their work.
All the work on sale has been donated and all proceeds will go toward Plan 9’s
future programme.
For further information please contact info@plan9.org.uk or Tel: 07813 728674
Artists:
Can Altay, Claire Barclay, Catherine Barclay, Chris Barr, Richard Box, Kieran
Brown, Ryan Brown, Julian Claxton, Ruth Claxton, Nimjo Chung, Marcus Coates,
Karen Di Franco, Anton Goldenstein, Colin Higginson, Toby Huddlestone, Marcus
Jefferies, Tom Johnson, Lady Lucy, John Lawrence, Dillan Marsh, Sophie Mellor,
Jack Newling, Eamon O’Kane, Mahali O’Hare, Annabel Other, Ben Pollock, John
Pym, Will Rounce, Ben Rowe, Mark Samsworth, Angus Sanders-Dunnachie, Lisa
Scantlebury, Elin Thomas, Sue Tompkins, Hayley Tompkins, Sophie Warren &
Jonathan Mosley, Simon Webb, Conor Wilson, Paul Wood & John Harrison and
others. |
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| DRAWING EXCHANGE 3rd April , Objects |
[Mar. 27th, 2007|04:48 am] |
http://www.irational.org/kayle/drawing_exchange/objects/
OBJECTS
A NIGHT FOR DRAWING OBJECTS
Tuesday 3rd April 7 pm - 10 pm Bristol County Sports Club ( BSCS) 40 Colston Street, Bristol
This evening is dedicated to the observational study of objects;
the things we carry, use, disuse and live with.
A series of drawing exercises will be set that enable exploration
of subject and experimentation into drawing practise. If you have
any suggestions for an exercise please bring it with you.
This is not a drawing class; it is a drawing social.
Bring paper and drawing utensils, including boards and easels (if
you use them).
The BCSC will provide; a paying drinks bar, a ploughman's (£2.00),
jukebox and comfortable well arranged space.
This event is part of an ongoing drawing exchange program.
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| I have much to tell you. |
[Feb. 19th, 2007|02:38 pm] |
As per usual, I have much to tell you, but you might have to wait untill we meet again properly.
In the meantime. Tonight I am going to The Karen Kilimnik at Serpentine.
I am super excited about this as in Independent Heroine zine *1, I published a very sweet letter
from Karen.
On flowerey notepaper A5 size
April 3rd 97
Dear Lucy,
Thank you for you nice letter that Lisa and Nora forwaded to me.
I'm so glad you liked my paintings. I'll try and look for a slide of
a painting to mail to you with this letter. I'm sorry it took me so long to answer but I am
a terrible letter writer. I still have thankus from 5 years ago that I keep meaning to write.
With very best wishes and good luck with your magazine. It sounds great.
Karen ( Kilimnik)
http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2007/02/karen_kilimnik_20_february_9_a_1.html |
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| Being Lady Lucy : Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004-2006 |
[Jan. 3rd, 2007|02:37 pm] |
Hi.
Hope you can make it down to this, be great to see you there
It's my Solo show . . .
All the bestest as ever
LL
Being Lady Lucy: Drawings and Sketchbooks 2004-2006, Unit 2 Gallery, London Metropolitan University 20 January to 10 March 2007. Curated by Eddie Chambers
Exhibition preview : Sat 20th January 2006 2-4 PM
Artist in conversation with curator Eddie Chambers
Thursday 8th February 2007 7pm at Unit 2.
This exhibition brings together several bodies of work by the enigmatic Bristol-based artist, Lady Lucy, produced over the past couple of years. The exhibition also features a selection of the fascinating source material from which the artist draws inspiration for her candid and fascinating studies of human existence, be that existence real, imagined, remembered, or meticulously constructed.
Lady Lucy is an artist like no other. Her chosen medium is drawing and to this end, she is constantly in the process of producing an extraordinary range of drawn art works. Her appetite for the act of drawing is vociferous. Never, it seems, is she without her beloved sketchbook. Compulsively, she draws at every opportunity. In the main, she takes as her subject matter people around her. People she knows, people she meets, people with whom she comes into contact, and people she observes. In the case of the people she observes, these are drawn from the printed page as frequently as from real life.
From The Importance of Being Lady Lucy, text for exhibition brochure, by Eddie Chambers
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Unit 2 Gallery
London Metropolitan University
Central House
59-63 Whitechapel High Street
London E1 7PF
http://www.unit2.co.uk |
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| From one side of the country to the other and back again.. |
[Sep. 23rd, 2006|12:29 pm] |
This morning got my World Filmography series back from Norwich. It was very well packaged although I have got to remove the curator tape from it. Also this morning I have been in contact with Adam Chodzko who has agreed to mentor me. It looks like I'll be taking a days trip to Whitstable in a few weeks time to meet the artist in his home habitat. I am fairly excited about this. Infact that week I will be travelling to and from the other side of the country rather a lot. I have to hang The Brighton show and it's my Dad's and Step Mum's 60's birthday barn dance in Kent and have to come back to Bristol inbetween to work on
The Arnolfini project. Mind you I am used to sitting down and reading after doing hours and hours of invigilating so I don't think I will mind the travelling too much.
Tonight come and see the QWACK F. at Cube
Lady and the MPC were going to be doing something, but have
decided to save that for another time and sing the skateboard song " I ride my Skateboard yeah" and try out a new performance idea...
I have a lot of drawings to draw... |
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| menus |
[Sep. 5th, 2006|10:58 am] |
So it's all been about menus in the last week.
On Friday there was some heavy duty cooking action from LM, AF and LL.
It was for an after screening talk about Lucy Skaer and Rosalind Nashashbi's new
film Flash in The Metropolitan. The artists had literally flashed their camera lights in the Metropolitan ( The Metropolitan of New York, where else !) of an evening and filmed the ancient, roman ? Statues and machettes in the flash. The artists where a little disapointed because it was suposed to be
on 16mm but the cutter rang the artists in the final hour before the screening and explained that the film wasn't finished. It all took place on the first floor of
an old warehouse in Bristol called The A Bond. It felt like this event wasn't in Bristol and as we prepared and ran around cutting and spreading many people arrived from the Bristol Art scene and we were hoping that they would like our menu.
We picked all our dishes from the menus samples on the met museums website. (More or less)
We presented
Tuna Salad on Sesame Brioche
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Spannish Tortilla
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Zuchinni and tomato tart
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Smoked salmon with a dill lemon and honey sauce
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Dates syuffed with blue cheese and walnuts
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homous
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olives
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bread
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It seemed that people liked it as there wasn't very much left over.
The artists also loved the concept which made us happy.
Afterwards at the pub it seemed that Being LL has been working it's
wonders. RN said she found this when googling herself...
http://www.beingll.com/wordpress/index.php?cat=433
So that's the food menu over and done with.
Oh except for last night we were in Wagamamas and I notice that
on the paper menu sheets on the table they have a space for
you to draw pictures. So Wagamamas gets points for that !
And the other menu I am talking about Is the DVD menu. and it looks great. But do you know what i am gonna make another post about that and it's going to be Saying BYE ME. |
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| D is for Drawing |
[Jul. 18th, 2006|09:37 am] |
http://www.dmagazine.org
I met Yane Calowski this weekend, the man behind this publication. It's a great read, lots of great drawing off artists who I have never seen before... |
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| Revelations: from 8.11.05 / Diane Arbus at The V and A |
[Apr. 15th, 2006|06:24 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, art and life, artists, diane arbus, feminist, germaine greer, jem cohen, lists, new york city, photographers, photography, v and a museum | ] |
How could I come to the Diane Arbus retrospective/ celebration/ biographic at
The V and A and not write in my very own book of revelations.
I am intrested in Diane Arbus not only because she was the fore runner of
modern masters of today such as Todd Slonz and Nan Goldin.What really strikes me about this show is the attention to detail given to the photographers practise.
Documented is what camera she used. The Rollieflex and Nikon 35 mm. Such classics. How she made notes and lists in her diary and notebooks and how these
ideas were proposed to magazine editors.
Diane Arbus's mehods remind me of the wonderful Jem Cohen film Lost Book Found. which reminds me of the book Joe Gould's secret.
I shall re read what Germain greer has to say about Arbus. Who made a claim that in her use of ordinary and street people she took power over them to make her photography. But to me this is pure vanity. Germaine doesn't like the photo that was taken and there probably is a spookiness about it, as Arbus died soon after.
Arbus makes revelations to the viewers through her work. We truly see the world
as we have never seen it before when we view her work.
Different personalities and wondrous humanities juxtaposed against each other.
If anything this show makes me know that it's important to make lists, to get things done. It makes me feel like this relevant and possible to be an artist today. It's just a shame that one morning in 1971 Diane Arbus wrote suicide on her list of things to do that day. |
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| ll_t2 |
[Apr. 11th, 2006|09:03 am] |
| [ | Tags | | | art, art for sale, art press, artists, book of books, drawing room, lady lucy, london, press clippings, the times, world filmography 1968 | ] |
Oh you pretty things
My art is to buy, according to The Times.
In the real paper there is a picture too...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,585-2127630.html
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