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Went to the Van Doesburg exhibition at Tate Modern

minim — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:20:34 +0000

Some awesome stuff in there, but unfortunately they had major fail when it came to providing seating for the crippled – enormous exhibition, only 2 benches in the whole thing, as far as I could see. I didn’t quite get halfway through it so will have to go back again. At least once. Possibly twice in order to get through the whole of George Antheil’s Ballet mécanique. Why oh why include the whole of a 16-minute film, with only two sets of headphones and nowhere to sit down???

Saw the Corot to Monet exhibition

minim — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:03:41 +0000

At the National Gallery with some friends. Some interesting work but overall not as exciting as other exhibitions I’ve seen there. Certainly nice to see friends though!

Waited in line for four hours

minim — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:34:51 +0000

… to get into the Banksy vs Bristol Museum exhibition. Yes, it was definitely worth it.

A dose of pre-raphaelitism

minim — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:05:20 +0000

My friend Sam has been travelling, and I finally caught up with her today in her last few hours before catching her plane back to Australia. Much chat of a superior quality was revelled in and we trotted along to the Royal Academy to see their J.W. Waterhouse show. Some very fine paintings there, but also quite a lot of sketches, which I always find particularly interesting – a number of sketchbooks and also sketch-studies for various paintings. Well worth the entry fee.

Art + conversation = win

minim — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 23:55:42 +0000

Went back to the Tate Britain and took djelibeybi along this time to have a better look at the Rothko/Turner exhibition – it really is extraordinary when you look at the Rothkos from his recommended viewing distance of 18 inches! Then met up with pocketsteve and we wandered across the river for drinks, then had a pub dinner with a vast amount of marvellous conversation and exploration of brand-new iPhones. A fabulous time was had.

Went to a seminar on art as research in Dundee

minim — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:20:42 +0000

I’m staying with a friend and collaborator of mine and she was going to this seminar, Who’s Afraid of Artistic Research?, on practice-based research, at Dundee Contemporary Arts, so I decided to tag along. Some interesting presentations, lots of notes taken. Brain is now some sort of soft, smelly cheese.

Went and saw the Rodchenko/Popova constructivist exhibition

minim — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:04:02 +0000

at Tate Modern as a little birthday treat to myself. Interesting. Now I want to do things with lines!

Messed around with illustrator

minim — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:29:34 +0000

I felt the time had come to finally work up my “Guardian of the dumb idea” doodle into something a little more official. Woollyjitters says he looks like a trout playing golf. I don’t know that he’d take very kindly to that. At any rate, I’m fond of him.

Messed about with collage and drawing

minim — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:02:08 +0000

The horrors of this week all got too much for me, so after spending the morning finishing reading Murder on the Leviathan I decided to give myself the day off and spent the whole afternoon on the couch, listening to music and messing about in my journal – I completed 6 entire spreads! Plus added a bit to a few more. I don’t think I’ve ever done that much in a session ever before. Definitely feel better for a little random creative thought, although the headache is as bad as ever.

used my watercolour pencils…

minim — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:44:48 +0000

to liven up the rubbish drawing i did when in france. it didn’t work very well so you’re not going to see it, but hey, it’s the effort that counts, eh?