by Alan Todd | Sep 14, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting, Sculpture
Today I re-read Joan Kee’s book on Korean contemporary abstract art in the light of seeing Jonathon Kim’s work at the West Thebarton gallery and on the back page of the recent edition of Artist Profile. What struck me was the phrase ‘activating the space...
by Alan Todd | May 6, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
In 2020 I embarked on a deliberate attempt to use time as an idea. Interestingly, the whole COVID scare came to embody much of what I was thinking about in terms of slowing down time. Suddenly people had more time than they knew what to do with and the lack of daily...
by Alan Todd | Feb 6, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Painting
I’ve been experimenting with the idea of the film strip and working in both positive and negative. A film strip in negative allows for text to sit over the top of a dense tonal base. In some ways this is preferable to large areas of white. This is part of a...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
I went back to my time making films as a way of understanding what I was trying to achieve. Image and spoken text in film need not relate at all. In Pulp Fiction, the two erstwhile hit men discuss hamburgers on their way to a job. While we may pay attention to what...
by Alan Todd | Dec 6, 2019 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting, Sculpture
Over fifty years I have worked in sculpture, drawing, photography and theatre but always saw myself as a painter. In my teenage years it was all I wanted to do but firstly my school art teacher saw little in what I was doing and decried my use of colour and then in my...
