August 2011

 

I can now reveal the illustration I did for Flamingo Magazine.… and here it is! It was for an article about the American artist Gordon Matta-Clark . To be fair I didn’t know who Matta- Clark was (yes my bad!) but I love doing editorial pieces because you get to do your own research into the subject matter and generate your own opinions and thoughts.

After reading about him I decided to do a self portrait of him and add lots of geometric and abstract shapes to mimic his enormous sculptures which often comprised of cut out walls and houses. These were often left in a raw state. Cutting through walls, leaving diagonal and horizontal shaped exteriors for the viewer to see the inside layers, this is what I wanted to show through the image. Matta- Clark would create these dramatic pieces of work which he often took man made structures, houses for instance, and completely changed their architectural function into art.

To read more about Matta-Clark check out this article about him.

 

You can also by an A3 Giclee Print via Flamingo Magazine’s shop. Nice.

 

 

 

Ooops. Sorry for the blip in updates. I started my new job about a week ago which is from Monday to Friday, still not used to getting up and going to work every day!

Anyway I’m happy to announce that I’m part of FLAMINGO Magazines very first Arts Project! I’ll be exhibiting a piece of work I submitted for the latest issue. So come along to the private view on the 25th August at Betty’s Coffee Shop down at Kingsland Road. For more details about the private view check out the Facebook Event and sign yourselves up for it. If you can’t make it down then no worries because it’ll be running from 26th August – 17th September.

 

 

I went to Boston a few weeks ago and so it feels odd not doing any illustrations. Plus I’ve started a new job which is from Monday to Friday so at the moment I’ve been getting into the swing of things. Now was the time to start earning dosh whilst doing illustration on the side, got sick of being skint all the time so makes sense to work.

Promise I’ll be doing more illustrations!