GREAT ARTISTS: THEY STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GREAT ARTISTS(GIANTS) BEFORE THEM AND REMIX THEIR WORK, AND THEN ADD SOMETHING OF THEIR OWN
BOWIE: I’M MORE LIKE A TASTEFUL THIEF
GOOD THEFT: honor, study, steal from many, credit, transform
WHAT DO I LOVE? SOUND, MOVEMENT, MY KIDS INNOCENCE AND IMMAGINATION, STRONG SUCCESSFUL FEMALE ARTISTS STATEMENTS, EXHIBITIONS OF OTHER ARTISTS
TRACEY EMIN: “So if I’m going to tell a story about being a woman, who is successfull, I’m going to tell a story of, when people say no to you, you don’t listen to them. You just do what you have to do and do what you want to do. And, in the education system in this country a lot of it is set up on class basis. So if you come from very working class background or you speak how I do, you’re not expected to do well. And here I am. Because I didn’t let anybody stop me and I didn’t listen to anybody and I did what I believed in what I wanted to do. Because I had a vocation. Art is a vocation in life. It’s not a job, it’s not a career, it’s something you do, it’s not to do with money, it’s something you feel you have to do. And you can’t stop yourself from doing it.” BBC WORLD SERVICE (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaJeUDcqOF4)
KATE MYER AND FRANKIE BOYLE EXHIBITION: Kate is a London-based contemporary abstract artist who creates circular forms with airbrush and acrylic. Kate calls herself “a lifelong feeler of the world. My work is a response to sound and sensation. I’m considered a highly sensitive person, and I suspect I experience a form of synesthesia — when I hear music or feel energy, colour choices become completely intuitive, as if the painting is a visual translation of vibration itself. Often on circular forms, my work aims to reflect not just how life looks, but how it feels”
I saw Frankie Boyle’s work initially at Saatchi at The 4o Years Long exhibition. I really enjoyed her light installation, white tubes filled with multiple colours that changed slowly with the meditative calming sound which was accompanying it. Frankie’s lights changing collour really reminded me of my own paper lamps and their
IDEA: Both artists have used sound as inspiration and I thought it really resonated how I react to sound/music/vibrations when I think about my work. And I didn’t think anything of it until, just this morning, I had an “enlightenment” moment in the shower and had to get out and run up the stairs and write down an idea before forgetting it. I don’t even know if this idea makes any sense but I just have to try it, I have to experiment with pouring liquid acrylic paint and using vibrations to spread it on canvas. Like Tracey Emin said, who cares if it doesn’t seem to make any sense and people tell me not to do it? I just feel like I have to do it.
POURING PAINT IDEA FRIDGE TRIPTICH
