Blackburn Town Exhibition attempt

I recently put my drawings up in an empty shop our course rented. They came together in the space really well. I put them up in manor of David Shrigley's "How are you feeling?" Exhibition I went to see in Manchester.

Putting drawings/photographs together creates different meanings than when they're alone. The mixture of original, printed unedited scanned, automatic and more intentional drawings came to great effect.

I had a critique with a visiting lecturer from Chelsea, Sean Dower. We discussed automaticism, what worked, what didn't. Artists suggested included André Masson and Austin Osman. I've decided that original drawings and scans mixed together were enough. No changes of colour in the future, no changes in quality of paper. Ill stick to black and white for now I think, pen on high quality paper. I'm thinking of putting up scans of the same image on the same wall.

Joan Miro/David Shrigley

After a recent tutorial with a visiting lecturer Pattie Ellis, the improvements i have made has been a suggested artist (Joan Miro), addressing my screen prints and a small idea related to David Shrigleys drawings.

His paintings and drawings are automatic. His work upsets some of the visual elements of a finished painting.

Pattie noticed and suggested not using default printer paper. The Small idea related to David Shrigleys work is that he uses high quality paper. With the contrast of his whipped one time drawings on such nice paper is a kind of witty way of pulling his work up to spectrum of higher art. I will be using paper. I had gone to see his exhibition "Who do you think you are?" in Manchester before hand so I was familiar with his work.

Edvard Munch, suggestive painting

My work is similar to Edvard Munchs because we both draw/paint the lines and colours that effect the inner eye, from memory without the details in front of ourselves. This is the reason for their obvious emptiness.

"Anxiety" 1894



"Golgotha" 1900