| thank you! |
[May. 4th, 2008|09:49 pm] |
It's nice to know somebody is still reading !!
thank you!
Body:
hey lady lucy,
I dunno if oyu remember me.......im nosh, coral's good friend & partner in crime this side of the atlantic??
aaanyhoo, im also an artist and i hadn't done anything personal in about 7 years - just exploring other forms. i habitually check out other artists who draw/do similar hings and i started to read your various blogs.
the short version is that i bought the brushpen that you recommended and its TOTALLY got me back on track. I would sell that pen, every single stroke is perfection.
so i thank you form the bottom of my heart for sharing the knowledge.
*i may sound a bit ike a wingnut but i had gotton so bad that i felt i had 'forgotton' to draw cos i used the computer so much. shocking state of affairs.
I hope the MA year goes fantastically
in solidarity!
nosh ;-) |
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| 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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| drawing letter 1 ( to Kayle) |
[Aug. 13th, 2007|09:57 am] |
12th August 2007
Dear Kayle,
I am writing to you about our drawing exchange/ festival project.
I thought t could be useful to start a drawn/ sketched dialog with one another.
Putting some ideas down on paper and discussing them. Although I have now decided that however
beautiful an idea this is, perhaps it is better to blog it and get my ideas straight out there into
the world. Hope you feel the same.
I thought it would be good to do this in the spirit of that John Berger book on drawing that we have both read and find inspiring.
I thought I would write this letter about tools and materials. I am scribbling this letter quickly at work. It reminds me of how I was drawing and writing ten years ago. On paper, in notebooks in Biro. I would write down my thoughts and feelings and sometimes fictionalise them. I guess I had gotten into the medium of writing because it was at this time that I started reading. A single working girl in London requires something to occupy her mind with. Anyhow at that time I had a very low level administrative role in a business opportunities publishing company and I guess the office and the journey from and to home became my studio. My tools and materials were
notebooks, Biro's, envelopes, stamps ( a little time on newly available internet) PHOTOCOPIER!. The drawings and projects I did at this time set a trend for how I developed my work. I couldn't have developed the confidence I have now using pen/ pencil/ paper without experiencing the the previous tools of my trade ( office worker).
Around the time I got to know you I made a conscious decision to start using more sophisticated materials, or materials that I felt confident using and that produced exciting results.
I started using the Pentel Brush pen. I think I have you to thank you for this. Oh and the now extinct Karisma Colour pencils. My sister first highlighted these to me when she requested 100 of them in a box for her 21st birthday whilst studying graphic design at St Martins.
Anyhow enough of the polemic. I think you get my jist.
In the last few days I have been as usual making drawings in this sketchbook using the aforementioned
Pentel Brush Pen ( the tool you introduced me to). As I draw quite publicly my audience frequently comment on the quality of this tool. " Nice Pen, where did you get that ? " . Let us focus on this pen, that we have both used. What is it regarding this pen that makes it so special? For a start if I was writing this letter in that pen would you be reading this text from a different view point ?
Using that pen for me is like applying Irish Moss Aveda mascara to my lashes, but also whilst slipping into the most comfortable clothes. I remember when I first started using that pen thinking at last I have found a medium I am happy with and it feels so good. I called this pen "My magic pen".
Childish as it may seem, I still don't like to be anywhere without it. With the help of my pen I became
illustrator, poster designer, portrait drawer.
I became to make these drawings and designs at ease.
My desire at this very moment as I enjoy scribbling these thoughts and words down quickly is o re draw it all in that pen.
There is something about that pen that aligns my practice to comic book creators too.
Anyhow these are my feelings about this pen.
I thik I am pretty sure that I indebted to you for introducing me to this pen and end this letter by saying thank you and I look forward to your response.
Lady xx |
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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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| 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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| Drawing Exchange / Winter nights |
[Dec. 17th, 2006|10:35 am] |
Hi All
Hope you can make it down to this. We look forward to drawing with
you...
There's been some updates to the drawing event on Monday:
If you have any sound/music you would like to draw please bring it in
on a CD.
We will be also celebrating the winter nights
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THE DRAWING EXCHANGE
Monday 18th of December 7pm - 12 midnight
Bristol County Sports Club (BCSC)
40 Colston St
Free admission
This drawing exchange is about sound
The sound presented will be live and recorded
we will make drawing in response the sound
Several exercises will be put to the subject for experimental
orientation.
please bring paper and drawing tools. If you have any sound/music that
you
would like draw please also bring this in on CD.
We hope you can come
The drawing exchange is not a lesson, its is a drawing get together.
We have the Bristol County Sports Club till 1am we will finish drawing
at 10ish
and have a knees up.
The BCSC will provide; a paying drinks bar, homemade soup (1.50), and
comfortable well arranged space.
For more information please see:
http://irational.org/kayle/drawing_exchange/ |
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| They shoot horses don't they ? // Ballroom dancers around the room. |
[Oct. 19th, 2006|11:29 am] |
http://www.longpauses.com/blog/2006/08/collins-and-jost.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_dancing
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They_Shoot_Horses%2C_Don%27t_They%3F
http://www.myspace.com/theyshoothorses
Saw "They Shoot Horses Don't They ?" last night. A few months ago we had a dance competition
in Seymours family club for a night called disco ordination. This dance competition only went on for about hlaf an hour if that and it was fun, but They Shoot Horses is about a sadistic dance derby set in depression era US. If you are looking for happy endings, Dirty Dancing, Stricly Ballroom, Saturday Night Fever, blah blah this film aint gonna give you any. It's about People being the ultimate spectacle. It's so ahead of it's time, and
has parellels with how we watch reality TV.
In my own life I am using my studio ( It has a table and chair) and although I like being tucked away where no one knows where I am in my fantasies, Reality is that I do like to chatter chatter chatter and do feel free to come and say hello. It's so great having a space. Am about to head down there now.
So I am looking at competitive dance in my drawings but as in Ballroom dancing. and from
ballroom dance magazines from the 50's 60's and 70's, from a publication called Ballroom dancing times. I guess what interests me in making these drawings are the attention to detail of a publicity shots, published in an enthusiasts magazine that have only really be seen by ballroom dancers. Yesterday I managed to get hold of some more karisma pencils, there are still a few in Bristol Fine Art. I layed all the drawings out to look at the yesterday. It was dust free up in Art Husband's studio, so we went up there.
I've decided I think they will work well in a line or maybe in blocks of four, so you can pay attention to them. I have drawn more than I thought I was going to, probably about 37, so that's good. Need to make a few more.
So if your in Brighton over the next few weeks you should come and see Desination Blatz.
http://www.phoenixarts.org/exhibitions.htm#blatz
Tomorrow school kids customizing T shirts, got them so great spray paint.
Friday Whitstable to meet http://www.adamchodzko.com Gruelling journey to do in a day ( 8 hours) but should be fun none the less. |
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| Dancing Times in colour |
[Jul. 19th, 2006|03:09 pm] |
Yesterday I started work on a new series of drawings.
They are in colour, well each drawing uses one colour selected from my depleted stock of Karisma colour pencils.
They are big, well bigger than before and they feature
the ballroom dance champions of years gone by.
Afterwards I took them round to Art husband to have a look.
The consensus is good. I like them and want to make some more ! |
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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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| camp-lady |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|05:04 pm] |
The things I do for my job.
I documented an event called The Peak Oil Olympics in Bristol. It involved camping in the Woods without a tent and without a sleeping bag and Canoeing across the tidal Avon. My shoes are muddy.
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| I also feel really in control of my pen |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|03:23 pm] |
Also, I feel really in control of my pen. This happens sometime you might think all the time, but sometime I actually become very satisfied with each and evey drawing I am doing. I notice it in the Being Lady Lucy series the most. I remember feeling like this about the lost sketchbooks that were stolen this time last year by the mugger who got me at knifepoint outside my frontdoor. I think it has taken me a while to get my confidence back and really learn to love the drawings again. I wonder where those drawings are ? I wonder what happened to the mugger after he theatened me that night with his knife? I wonder too much sometimes. That is why I like to be in control of my pen. |
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| Don't Do Tricks again |
[Jul. 12th, 2006|03:15 pm] |
Just seen some work in progress from Don't Do Tricks.
James has made me do some drawings that I found realy difficult but
in the edit of the film they look great. It really feels like we
are properly nearing completion of this epic project.
On the 2nd September you will be able to come to launch of it and but a DVD with comic book and sound track tracks for the meer sum of 5 pounds. We are gonna have a party down at The Cube to celebrate.
More info to follow, after the sucess of last weeks Discoordination I feel revitilised about the idea of putting on parties.
In other news I have a illustration of Xtina to do for Plan B. |
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| Last Chance Saloon /on tour |
[Apr. 27th, 2006|07:26 pm] |
Who remembers Last Chance Saloon. Circa late nineties, early noughties.
Run by Sue Prince who does this: http://www.nudemagazine.co.uk/about-us.htm ?
Anyhow the reason I was thinking of Last Chance Saloon was that it's your
last chance in London to see the Drawing Room exhibition that I am in Drawing Links
this weekend.
Ends 30th April.
Scroll down to see details or click
http://www.drawingroom.org.uk
Drawing Links is then going to these places
Hope you'll be able to make it there too
12 May - 11 June 2006
International 3
8 Fairfield Street
Manchester
M1 3GF
2-21 August 2006
Outpost Gallery Norwich
10b Wensum Street
Norwich
NR3 1HR |
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