BlankPages, Issue 31
I was approached by Blank Media Collective and asked if I would be their 'Spotlight' artist in their monthly publication BlankPages.

Here is my spotlight article:

You can read the entire publication online here: http://www.blankmediacollective.org/blankpages

BLANKEXPRESSION 2011, BLANKSPACE LAUNCH
I was selected to take part in BlankExpression 2011 at BlankSpace.

BlankExpression 2011 is an ambitious and exciting showcase of works by twenty-seven emerging practitioners from London to Victoria, Barnsley to Tel Aviv and anywhere in between. Taken from an open submission call, works will engage, stimulate and challenge each and every viewer. With a wide variety of works spanning over a range of disciplines, BlankExpression 2011 there’s something for everyone. BlankExpression 2011 promises to be the start of something very special happening at the iconic 43 Hulme Street building.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:

Alexander Ashton /Andrew Broadey /Andy Nash /Andy Nizinskyj /Ben Sloat /Claudia Borgna /Daniel/Fogarty /Hadas Tapouchi /Hannah Brown /Hannah Wiles /Jane Lawson /Jen Ross /Jez Dolan /Jude Macpherson /Karl Kolley /Katrina Vivian /Lucy Ridges /Lyndsey Searle /Matthew Stanners /Michael Thorp /Rachael Gittins /Rebecca Wild /Rose Barraclough /Ruth O’Brien /Scott Kershaw /Shreepad Jonglekar /Stephen White

EXHIBITION CONTINUES: Friday 28 January - Sunday 13 February 2011

Images of the work I made for the show can be seen in the blog-post below. Here are some images from the preview night:

Photograph Credit: Gareth Hacking

Instrument by Rose Barraclough. Photograph Credit: Damien Hayward



Spinario by aniel Fogarty. Photograph Credit: Gareth Hacking

Tape Series by Karl Kolley. Photograph Credit: Gareth Hacking

Carousel by Andy Broadey. Photograph Credit: Gareth Hacking

Magic Carpet by Jude Macpherson. Photograph Credit: Jude Macpherson

There is detailed information on all the artists that exhibited, along with images of their work, and an opportunity to buy the exhibition catalogue here: http://www.blankmediacollective.org/events/exhibitions/blankexpression_2011_blankspace_launch

BLANKEXPRESSION 2011
I submitted a proposal for the exhibition BlankExpression which built on the ideas I put forward for CUBEOpen 2010 (See Below)

Here are some images of the work that I made, followed by a synopsis of the work.

Synopsis of Work
I am interested in how our society establishes institutions to ensure that the physical environment and people’s social behaviour remain under its determining influence. This has lead to a basic division between the minority who determine the topology of urban living and the majority who are forced to passively accept its given form in their daily lives. And as nature is seen to be a threat to the stability of the infrastructure of society; untamed and always moving towards anarchy, it is similarly repressed. Control is exerted upon the consciousness of people through the encoding of the physical environment into a highly complex structure of inter-related symbols that exhibit their separation from nature. A perfect example of this encoding of the physical environment can be seen in front of the new BLANKSPACE building, in the form of two square bushes that have been grown within a redbrick mount. Through ordering ‘nature’ into this repeated pattern within the constraints of the square concrete slabs, I am referencing the fact that most natural elements within a city are held within a fixed framework, intended as something to look at and admire from a distance.


Here are the two square bushes that have been grown within a redbrick mount, the initial inspiration for the work: