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Thursday, July 26, 2012
New pics for my Hastings Arts Forum page
While at the Arts Forum yesterday I realised my membership had run out so I paid up and today have been updating pics on my page of work. There is a problem with them displaying until my membership is updated so I have put them here - they are rough collages of as a means of showing more than the allowed 20 images on the page.
my page on the Forum (when it's fixed) http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/artists/artists-page/gallery/ShirleyG/
my page on the Forum (when it's fixed) http://www.hastingsartsforum.co.uk/artists/artists-page/gallery/ShirleyG/
Day out at Hastings: Gary Hume at Jerwood, Victoria Kiff and Alistair Kendry at Hastings Arts Forum & Robert's Curios
What a day I had, beautiful weather, art and people. Only the night before I realised I had left it to a bad time. We have a week of sunshine and high twenties temperatures, I could have gone Monday or Tuesday but, I left it till Wednesday, the day all the Olympic lanes came into operation. I check the BBC traffic cameras at 8.30 in the morning and the traffic looked not too bad but I still expected it to be worse. In fact, the roads were almost empty - the warning have been very effective - everyone's left town. It was only on the way back when I was only 5 minutes from home, near the Olympics, that I spent 1/2 an hour trying to get round the home traffic dealing with less lanes on the A12 near the grounds.
1. Gary Hume At the new Jerwood in Hastings
Gary Hume is another YBA that I didn't know about. Simple shapes, glossy paint in colours you just want to eat. The first one, 'four feet in the garden', is like many of them, pretty big and when you first look at it you see it as a black abstract shape till you get closer and you start to see feet and the subtle details of indented outlines of toe nanils etc, and, it's very shiny - bling bling, I can't resist. These are works you definitely need to see in a gallery to get the full effect. Often I see paintings, especially the old masters in dimly lit galleries for their protection and I just can't wait to get back to google to see up close clear images of them. The images below just don't capture it for Hume's work - it just looks illustrative here. There was a great 1/2 video of the artist talking about his work and this was really inspiring - especially the bit about the temptation to add more which ruins your first pure simple idea. I can really learn from this, especially in some of the very closeup portraits of parts of faces I want to do and in some of my very closeup flower paintings experiments I want to develop.
Click here for more about Hume.
I had afternoon tea in the Jerwood Cafe - looked nice but took a long time to come and had some stale edges on the little morsels.
And the building itself sits right on the seafront amongst the old black fishermens' sheds.
2. Victoria Kiff & Alistair Kendry at Hastings Arts Forum Gallery - The Sea and It's Creature/Gilt
I met the lovely Victoria and she showed me around her new studio overlooking the sea. It's a very exciting time for her with lots of exhibitions coming up over the coming year. Definitely one to watch and perhaps invest in now before the prices skyrocket and they're just so lovely and full of feeling. Alistair had taught me some wonderful freeing art techniques in a few classes I did with him - a great teacher as well as artist. His sumptuous gold leaf, new super greens, textures and free strokes were wonderful too. His huge gold leaf picture at the other end of the gallery as you enter deserves a place in a very large open space. At £800 surely someone will snap it up - oh if only I had the money and the space.
I have bought a few of theirs works (there goes the holiday but I couldn't stop myself) and will post them when I pick them up - can't wait.
click here for their artist statements and details of the forum's other exhibitions:
hastingsartsforum-alstair-kendry-and-victoria-kiff
Keep an eye on Victoria's site for her upcoming exhibitions: www.victoriakiff.net
1. Gary Hume At the new Jerwood in Hastings
Gary Hume is another YBA that I didn't know about. Simple shapes, glossy paint in colours you just want to eat. The first one, 'four feet in the garden', is like many of them, pretty big and when you first look at it you see it as a black abstract shape till you get closer and you start to see feet and the subtle details of indented outlines of toe nanils etc, and, it's very shiny - bling bling, I can't resist. These are works you definitely need to see in a gallery to get the full effect. Often I see paintings, especially the old masters in dimly lit galleries for their protection and I just can't wait to get back to google to see up close clear images of them. The images below just don't capture it for Hume's work - it just looks illustrative here. There was a great 1/2 video of the artist talking about his work and this was really inspiring - especially the bit about the temptation to add more which ruins your first pure simple idea. I can really learn from this, especially in some of the very closeup portraits of parts of faces I want to do and in some of my very closeup flower paintings experiments I want to develop.
Click here for more about Hume.
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| Gary Hume - Feet in the Garden (on the left) |
I had afternoon tea in the Jerwood Cafe - looked nice but took a long time to come and had some stale edges on the little morsels.
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| Afternoon tea at the Jerwood |
And the building itself sits right on the seafront amongst the old black fishermens' sheds.
2. Victoria Kiff & Alistair Kendry at Hastings Arts Forum Gallery - The Sea and It's Creature/Gilt
I met the lovely Victoria and she showed me around her new studio overlooking the sea. It's a very exciting time for her with lots of exhibitions coming up over the coming year. Definitely one to watch and perhaps invest in now before the prices skyrocket and they're just so lovely and full of feeling. Alistair had taught me some wonderful freeing art techniques in a few classes I did with him - a great teacher as well as artist. His sumptuous gold leaf, new super greens, textures and free strokes were wonderful too. His huge gold leaf picture at the other end of the gallery as you enter deserves a place in a very large open space. At £800 surely someone will snap it up - oh if only I had the money and the space.
I have bought a few of theirs works (there goes the holiday but I couldn't stop myself) and will post them when I pick them up - can't wait.
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| Victoria Kiff- Portrait |
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| Alistair Kendry - Red boat storm 2 |
hastingsartsforum-alstair-kendry-and-victoria-kiff
Keep an eye on Victoria's site for her upcoming exhibitions: www.victoriakiff.net
Jenny Saville Exhibition - Modern Art Oxford
It was just as well I had combined the Saville exhibition with my trip to 'Art In Action' Fair in Oxford, as the latter's car park was washed out with all the rain we've been having till now and they were bussing people from a farmer's field which I declined and went home - I wasn't getting my wheelchair which I need for exhibitions, into an electric golf buggy train thing to the bus then the bus to the show - life's too short. The trip was still worth it for the Saville exhibition.
Loved this exhibition - HUGE paintings of flesh. I'd seen her work online before but when you stand in front of these 10-20' pictures of big women, intersexuals, cosmetic surgery operations (she watched operations) and cows hanging in abatoirs (she lived near one), you are just overtaken by them. And then there are her beautiful recent drawings of her pregnant and holding her first child, based on Davinci cartoon. I can now see why Saatchi took her on and I am beginning to see why the YBAs took off - there was a lot of talent. (see also my Hastings review of Gary Hume, another YBA (young british artists - late 80s graduates which includes Damien Hirst.)
Loved this exhibition - HUGE paintings of flesh. I'd seen her work online before but when you stand in front of these 10-20' pictures of big women, intersexuals, cosmetic surgery operations (she watched operations) and cows hanging in abatoirs (she lived near one), you are just overtaken by them. And then there are her beautiful recent drawings of her pregnant and holding her first child, based on Davinci cartoon. I can now see why Saatchi took her on and I am beginning to see why the YBAs took off - there was a lot of talent. (see also my Hastings review of Gary Hume, another YBA (young british artists - late 80s graduates which includes Damien Hirst.)
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