In this term I have been working into the idea of performance painting and taking inspiration from artist and writers alike. The artist Joseph Beuys for instance “ Beauty comes in the steering of us into new places where we transcend the familiar relation we had with objects.” And that “The actions or performances he staged were rituals to induce new ways of perceiving and to heighten the appreciation of everyday objects” I think this is an interesting way to look at performance and one I can develop into my own practise.
My use of paint will always be present in my work but I wanted to understand and develop interesting ways of viewing the work, from the perspective that the performance of actually painting is as much if not more the art than the actual product of painting itself. I have used video and photography to try record the performances and work from the environment itself rather than the studio to understand how this changes the work and the method of painting it. The constantly shifting natural world produces very different results when the light is constantly changing the clouds are constantly shifting, and the painter has to constantly adjust to these variables that you just don’t get from working in the studio. I also find the complexity of the preparation u need to paint out of the studio a completely new experience and on that feels like a draw back to the old renaissance and impressionist painters who were like travailing printers constantly working from the environment they were in.
This is some recent work where I painted from inside a small bridge in the entrance to Worsley woods. Its an old etrance to one of the large manner houses that it leads to, it is no longer in use and is in a state of dilapidation and close to falling down I think, but its got an appeal that I cant quite understand but have worked from it a lot during this project.
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| Working in the enviroment. |
For art and audience we had to work collaboratively to produce work with other people from your studio. These peaces that i developed with Ian Malhotra and Hattie Coombe, we where trying to look at the way that work can be displayed in an alternate environment. This use of context is key to the work and opposes the Modernist white cube idea with the opposite. We used projections to fill the room with our work with all the different textures and surfaces producing great effects to pieces of work that where initially made for this purpose.
This was a peice i painted in developmet of my mane project working from the enviroment and in it. Painting becoming the perfomance or the art and the result of that is this object or the painting which i have then projected onto the wall of the basement.
