A book of Misprints - Fair Trade

Two recent work from a 'Book of Misprints.' These details are from a body of 80 prints. The print is 3-4cm on an A4 page.

A book of Misprints - HEAD

Recent work from a 'Book of Misprints.' These details are from a body of 80 prints divided into 7 chapters: Fair Trade, Long Time Man, Pure, Oldest Profession,Venus as a Whore, Extra virgin, Head. The print is 3-4cm on an A4 page.

A book of Misprints -Venus as a Whore

Recent work from a 'Book of Misprints.' These details are from a body of 80 prints divided into 7 chapters: Fair Trade, Long Time Man, Pure, Oldest Profession,Venus as a Whore, Extra virgin, Head. The print is 3-4cm on an A4 page.

Holiday Snap

This is one of my favorite photo's from my recent holiday.... it is close to the Barbican Arts Centre.

The Surreal House

I saw the exhibition 'The Surreal House' at the Barbican Centre. A diverse collection of art, objects & film, set inside a labyrinth of spaces designed by an architect. Featuring pivotal artists, architects and film makers including Salvador Dali, Marcel Duchamp, Alberto Giacometti, René Magritte, Man Ray, through to more contemporary figures. My favorite piece - was a film featuring Buster Keating - the title of which escapes me.

Another work from the Saatchi Collection

I photographed this work at the Saatchi Gallery in London. Its not my taste or aesthetic, but it was a good piece to document rather than just 2D works...

From the Saatchi Gallery III

Another painting from the Saatchi Gallery in London. I was amazed I was allowed to take photographs....

Barbican Sky Towers

Brutalist architecture is a style of architecture which flourished from the 1950s to the mid 1970s, spawned from the modernist architectural movement. I went a tour of the Barbican Estate recently, well worth a visit if your visiting London: http://www.barbican.org.uk
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Granny Doll (1999)

Go Green Vote Granny (2000)

Granny Smith ( 1996 )

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Continuing with my posting of earlier art works - that are old enough to make me feel like its someone else's work. Some of them I find embarrassing, but I have made them, so here they are ( including the previous 3 posts ).

Mustard ( 1997 )

BlackBird

Detail from painting 'Black Bird' (1998). From the same series as the previous post: Milky Bar White.

Milky Bar White.

Detail from a painting  - long since thrown out. From 1998.

Bridge of Remembrance.

This is pretty old - from 1986 when I was a student at Vis Com, Christchurch.  I've kept the photograph as its a great example of a warm toned, fiber based print. I think it was Brovira Speed  - which is a matt paper. The image sits 'in' the paper (instead of sitting upon the emulsion of a coated paper) with the warm tones of the paper coming through the image.

Extra Virgin

Venus as a Whore

Detail, from my recent show at CoCA. 
The image is 3-4 cm in size upon an A4 paper.

Monarchy - Oldest Profession.

Both examples are from a body of over 100 prints.
artwork copyright of the artist.

Codependency

From 2009. A luna type landscape constructed out of anti-depressant medication. More of this work can be viewed on my website, at www.aclinicalpractice.com

artwork copyright of the artist.

Preview

The graphic is the invite to my printmaking exhibition at CoCA in Christchurch.

SHELL [1992]

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Figure Drawing #1

Figure Drawing.

Cripes, this is way old... back when art courses had figure drawing classes! From 1987 when I was studying at Christchurch Polytechnic, the tutor was Dee Copland. I have good memories of an enthusiastic Dee.

Skull

Nokia mobile pix. Alleyway in Melbourne.

Kaleidoscope

I was at the survey exhibition of Olafur Eliasson at SFMOMA. At entry point of the exhibition you had to walk through a kaleidoscopic tunnel. I wasn't sure if photography was allowed, & I do know better..... but I took this quick snapshot.

MEAT

Oil on canvas, 2009. Painting by Garth Steeper.

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Conservative NZ

From 2004. Screen-print on paua shell laminate. Shown at Compact Space.

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Toilet Art

Above - 'I Think My Work is Kind of Crappy'. And below, 'I Want to be Famous & Exhibit at Gow Langsford.' Screen-print on toilet paper. Both of these were 'rejects' & never exhibited, they are from a body of work titled 'Learner Artist' an exhibition of 2004. ( to view this show go to http://aclinicalpractice.com/Site/Archiv_1./Pages/Learner_Artist.html )

A while back, I remember going to an art opening at the Gow Gallery in Kitchner Street, and needing to use their toilet; in which on the wall was a small framed piece. It presented the in-house joke line 'I want to Be Famous & Exhibit...' Regardless of its origin & context I thought this self parodying was certainly not self-effacing, but quite pretentious. I can imagine Gary Langsford sitting on the toilet & chuckling to himself about this line. 

In some ways the Dealer gallery /artist relationship is akin to Pimp/prostitute, meaning Gow Langsford is really just brothel. In line with this thought;

HOOKER / tired on peddling his wares on the street. 

seeks MEANING LONG TERM RELATIONSHIP WITH DEALER.

( & promises not to sleep around )

 

Work copyright of the artist.

Extra Virgin

These shown examples are from a body of work produced from 2002-03. Exhibited in two incarnations -'Your Place or Mine?'  And the latter 'Your Palace of Mine? (Ma'am). I felt much of the artwork too derivative from the sources they were appropriated from - brothel ads & vintage N.Z postage stamps. For me, the works presented in this blog were more successful (despite the kitschiness) because of their simplicity  - perhaps the inherent nature of paper cutouts.

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Heavy Metal

'Heavy Metal' was both the title & framework for a group show. This exhibition was held in 1998 at a Christchurch venue. Using a light sensitive photographic emulsion product to coat the metal block, an image of a metal gate was then printed upon its surface. 

All artwork copyright of the artist.