Artist
STATE SPONSORED ARTS PATRONAGE IS ONE THING BUT MAKING A LIVING AS AN ARTIST, QUITE ANOTHER.
Just how do you create a culture of more than just free entertainment from feel-good events? Essentially this requires a cultural shift of major proportions
OF LINEAR LOGIC, CREATIVITY AND THE RIGHT ANSWER
Something that I have never understood, or even least, appreciated, is the insistence in education that everyone should take mathematics, five days week for the majority of their school lives.
PUBLIC HOLIDAYS FOR AGEING FOREIGN MONARCHS AND HORSE RACES – HOW ABOUT ONE FOR THE ARTS?
I think the message here is don’t wait for self-serving governments or tech billionaires to pass on a few cents.
THE IMPROBABLE MOMENT
A painting such as this is just such a moment. The figure is caught in motion, in transition, while the other areas are motionless but enlivened with texture. Words appear as seeming dialogue – the visualisation of a soundtrack. In film recording, the sound and picture are treated separately and only brought together in the editing. Again, this is artificial. We experience sound and picture simultaneously however, while the picture can be isolated to a static image or still, words are traditionally spoken at three words per second meaning that the words in the picture cannot be literally experienced at the same time as the figurative and textural elements in the painting. This contradiction creates not so much confusion as layers of improbability.
FINE – THE ART OF DOING WHATEVER YOU WANT.
It has been a long time since I considered what constitutes ‘fine art’ or even ‘art’ and I’m surprised that the debate still continues or that anyone still feels the need to define either.