CORE 80 CD

I have been very busy of late, so haven't had too much time to post new work up on the blog. I have received the new issue of 'the modern gentleman' as well as sending various other pieces off to print, so its all starting to come together for the final hand in next Friday...

THIS IS ART - STAMP

I have mentioned making some form of stamp for the 'This Is Art' work, I have had discussions in and out of school about doing this, as it may be the easy option out of doing a sticker, however as I am also making a sticker I feel the stamp would be a good addition, for example it could be used if the stickers ran out...

ALEX FARRAR - THE IMPORTANCE OF THE SIGNATURE

I have been a fan of the artist Alex Farrar for a while now. His work is very simple, yet really intriguing. He uses a lot of legal wording and whatnot within his work, making his pieces seem more important than they maybe are, which again is sealed with signatures and whatnot...

THIS IS ART - CHOICES

Having re-looked at the 'Facility For Thought' work and looked at some more reference points I have decided to change both the format and the text that is on the sticker, only slightly but in the context of the design I guess its a pretty massive change. I have changed the name for a start to, 'This Is Art'...

I PROMISE NEVER TO - BOB & ROBERTA SMITH

I saw this image a while ago on a blog and was intrigued to what it was and who did it, I recently stumbled upon it again and quickly found out who did it. The people who did it are British artists Bob and Roberta Smith and was connected with a show they did in New York at Pierogi back in 2002...

PLEASE DO NOT

I found this photo the other day and it made me laugh, amazing that someone has done this in some art gallery somewhere in the world so small that probably nobody noticed, brilliant. Completely taking the piss out of the gallery culture altogether, maybe that of 'This Is Art' will change that!

ART IS ANYTHING

This is a picture I found the other day that I felt was appropriate to the 'This Is Art' work. The statement 'art is anything you can get away with' is an interesting one, because I feel this is right in so many senses due to the fact that if someone wants something to be 'art' and they are given the power to make this decision...

FACILITY FOR THOUGHT - THIS IS ART - IS IT ART

After finishing the second instalment of 'The Changing Face Of The Modern Gentleman' I'm now back to the 'Facility For Thought' work. I've had this work at the back of my mind constantly however, looking at different ways of doing it and what I want to be producing for it. I've had many conversations on the subject too..

THE CHANGING FACE OF THE MODERN GENTLEMAN - PART TWO

I got the second instalment of 'The Changing Face Of The Modern Gentleman' off to print yesterday, which was really great. The second paper focuses on the flip-side of the notion of a gentleman, looking at gentlemen's clubs and magazines. The paper is narrated by a man called Vivian Henderson...