Artists work for Frieze Art fair 2011

Christo and Jean-Claude

Jonathon Monk

Paul Chan

Barcelona design meets London design at Vyner studio

Utilitiy Positioning: In the V&A

Utility Positioning: Barcelona

Utility Positioning: Cat contribution

Utility Positioning: Dry flat

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Utility Positioning: Hanging up and Drying

Utility Positioning: Hanging out and washing the Paper

This is an experiment which came about after photographing different practical placements of objects I have found. In a way it was like setting up a photo shoot whilst being unaware of what my aim was or what the photos would really look like. These are a few of the images I created.

Utility Positioning

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Other Windows: Pablo Bronstein - Sketches for Regency Living at the ICA

Sketches for Regency Living is suitably titled, the installation and very much "take over" of the ICA is like a huge drawing including choreography,live music,furniture and drawings. My visit (because that is what it felt like) reminded me of the experience as a child when my mum used to take me to old country houses or the Brighton Pavilion where I was aware that we were looking at something which had an important history, that people used to live and use the space.Yet Bronstein's sketches have been done in a simple and minimal way, there is no heavy wallpaper of regency fabrics to be distracted by and only a few fancy frames. Instead the take over looks as if it has been created by an architect as it is an easy space to understand and clear to understand.

I would particularly like to share the corridors stairs with you. The floor which Jennie Moncur was re-commissioned in 2008 to install is taken into account and complimented by the series of black frames running along the corridor walls. The frames emphasise the black and white floor pattern and compliment so well one could easily think that Bronstein himself had designed the floor . The frames contained drawing designs of different details of decoration for the façade of the regency building. The experience of walking up the stairs and looking at the pictures felt very comfortable and continued to bring back the experience of looking around a historic house.

I think the whole experience of Bronstein's work within the gallery feels very natural. The relationship between the architecture of the gallery and Bronstein's work is almost indistinguishable,it feels as if the gallery walls and floors have co-operated to join in the theatre.

It is this relationship with the architecture which led me to include his work in "Other Windows" section. I particularly admire the simple and comfortable way he has presented his work to be experienced and also the extent of detail all his "sketches" bring about to such a whole experience.

Night Window

Summer Blue

Utility Positioning

Other Windows : Samantha Blanchard-Solitude

I found Samantha Blanchard's work in an exhibtion in Hertfordshire. I obvousily feel a connection with her work because of her use of windows, I'm particuarly interested in how the piece carries a feeling of "emptiness" . Each photograph has the blank sky as a focus and is only framed by the edges of the landsacape. These "empty" landscapes are then surround in the frame of the window which just seems to emphasise the emptiness. I like how this piece does still feel alive in the space, as the white window frames tries to disguise itself against the white wall. The window frame also makes you aware of the experience of the inital act of photgraphing in the empty landsacpe.

An orange haze which draws us outside to stop and open the front door and look.

Pinot Pascali the Arte Povera artist explained when asked why he made his work, "The essential thing is that they give me strength, they demonstrate that I exist".

(Pino Pascali cit.Germano Celant po.cit.,p223)

“The Old Town Disappeared in One Night”

(Inspired by Hans Ulrich Obrist’s 2006 interview with Ai Weiwei. )

Half the Tate floor is covered in sunflower seeds,
Grey and white mini stripes on the grey floor.

Ancient pots; “cultural objects”
Covered with B&Q’s basic shades, running up and down their necks.

Plans and paper buildings to be built,
Which Cats claw at night and cover with piss.

And Mum’s redbrick home has gone.
Someone has covered the whole town in concrete.

The Paper Place Statement

The Paper Place

"Art is primarily the record of an intellectual process rather than a visual experience"

Leonarda da Vinci

I'm writing this before I "make" the "art". I have chosen to exhibit a record of my thinking instead of a "piece of art". I have chosen to call this installation The Paper Place because of the vast amount of paper I seem to collect within my practice as an artist through my studio work,my community placement and philosophy. This piece is an ultimate collage of the year.

I toyed with the word studio other than place but that would insinuate oil painting and clay pots and then maybe I would have had to put newspaper on the floor. Instead this space is more like a kind of messy office. A hopeless attempt to "sort out" the random and abstract nature of creative thought. This thinking includes most of the paper I've been given,or have used or have made during this second year of my course. Paper is a tool:a tool for writing ideas on and remembering things,a way of capturing light and colour ,a surface fro reading,it is a site to be cut out and changed,it can become a template or a means to promoting an event.

This paper is an attempt to express my practice as an artist,or perhaps a writer,or a philosopher.

This paper place is not a room,it is not a fixed space it can be de-constructed and transported. Although this is a large amount of my paper I still have a paper place in my room at home and I have a small paper place in my bag too. We all have paper places, it may be the stack of of phone books ans letters you have piling up on the stairs or the books you carry around in your bag. Even whilst writing this I was interrupted and asked to fill out the paper pages of the census booklet...

The Paper Place

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This was an installation in the inner balcony of our lecture hall made in a collaboration between myself and Oliver Hull.

The installation was particularly sensitive to the interior architecture of the balcony for example the line of photos we arranged on the ceiling which weaved in and out of the many lights and fans. The lecturn like desk was also defined by a line,a line of opened books in which assumptions and narratives were able to made by the viewer.

The installation was built on the idea of libraries and narratives which was reinforced by the librarians of our university invidulating the exhibtion as well as the title which is resonate of referencing and imagined pcitures. .

The Art of Framing

The past "Art of Framing" photos come from an exhibiton I held at uni recently. They are a development of my previous work with frames and show my continued interest in responding to the architecture within the space I work in.

"The Art of framing"

This piece developed from my earlier work with frames, this time I worked with a pile of frames instead of treating them as individuals. The frames lean against the corner wall, the last frame has the blank white paper slip which it comes with,the white carries down to the sketchbook onto the floor which is sanwiched between glass. The sketchbook is framed by a glass sheet on top and underneath. The sketchbook itself has a single centre metre's worth of photo, the negative of a usual cropped photo.

"The Art of framing"

This is a piece of painted wood. It has a indented line down the midddle. It was given to me to a tool for folding paper. The indent running vertically through the wood runs along the indented line in the wall, following the crease line.

"The Art of Framing"

The frame is the left over from plastic vacum forming,the frame has been cut into. The frame frames the edge of scuff marks on the wall. It brings attention to the marks and makes them appear to run into the frame.

Examples of "Empty Frames"