the notions of art as object with no real status

I’d like the notion of buying my paintings and pieces to be like the buying of a CD: it’s cheap, it’s art and hopefully it changes your life (or at least your day, or your week) just a little. Rather like a CD the object has no real status. Something evolved and created for and from the moment (or moments) I painted it, for that moment you enjoyed it. Something with none of the boundaries the coldness of galleries and gallery prices can throw up. This isn’t a comment on how other people do things, just the way I want to enjoy my creative process right now. I don’t object to galleries or having my work in galleries, but I do enjoy the notion of taking the financial status away and the piece of art having no real financial status. Art on market stalls, art left on the street, sold on ebay for 1p. I have been leaving a lot of art on the streets over the last two years, people often complain that they never have a chance to find anything and that the process is a little hit and miss…

Tomorrow, Saturday, I shall once more be painting at my stall on Netil Market, Hackney, London E8 (by London Fields park and just by the railway bridge in the little carpark by Netil House and Mare Street). Pieces of work will be on sale at prices ranging between £1.00 and £30.00. if you think they should be cheaper say so, gave quite a few away last week (will paint for food or cups of coffee though… )

And now I shall go enjoy this glorious weather and paint outside the front of the studio…

12" slice of vinyl, left behind a fence on top of a wall

12" slice of vinyl, left behind a fence on top of a wall. March 19th 2011.

Another Wilfred...

Another Wilfred piece, I do rather like painting Wilfred. This time on one of those 'nice' instant canvas decorations they mass produce and sell at Ikea, the ones that people get board with and throw away after a few months (once they've seen that all their friends have the same picture on their identical Ikea flavoured walls). They throw them away for me to find, paint one and recycle. I do like painting over these unwanted things, bit like the notion of those street artists painting over old walls and other people's pieces while leaving bits of what was there for people to see... And I do like the notion that Mother Nature is the finest of all street artists, growing her new leaves and fresh green things over decaying city walls and old unwanted pieces thrown away, over walls, over thrown away canvas or discarded 80's sounds systems. Wilfred would never be thrown away though, he's an original bit of classic 80's ghetto blaster who saw valiant service at the GLC Hip-Hop jam of the early 80's and gave good service on many painting and busking days back there. He now has a place of honour here in the studio bunker where he is often painted... Here's the latest Wilfred piece...

Time to drag my easel over to the open air of Netil Market

The Spring sunshine demands that this coming Saturday I leave the bunker studio and all the paint fumes and drag my easel over to the open air of Netil Market, over here in London E8. I shall set up said easel and paint live and direct next to a stall where you will find some of my smaller canvas pieces and well as bits painted on cardboard, on nice bits of 7" vinyl, in frames. Come say hello, time to carry on with last year's market stall / street corner / phone box / ebay / left field gallery space experiments in affordable art. I like the atmosphere at Netil, expecially when they have live bands and that excellent Chai tea stall in the corner is there... here are some fresh green leaves and work in progess in the bunker... http://netilmarket.tumblr.com/

Bronwen Little Eris Davies lovely lovely leaves! 11 hours ago


Sean Worrall

Netil Market is in the carpark next to Netil House, just by London Fields and Broadway Market (Broadway is the fashionable one with the expensice foodm Netil is the alternative friendly creative zone just a tiny bit down the road) with art,... vintage, affordable food, bands, msuic, books, shoes and al lkinds of strange things

Netil Market every Saturday @ 11-25 Westgate St, London Fields, London E8. 11am - 6pm. Just off Mare street, lots of buses to Hackney stop right by it, right by London Fields overground...

Sean Worrall thank you Bronwen, work in progress in the bunker, one of of those giant canvas finds from the street... i do like the idea of art on alernative market stalls rather than the formal eviroment of a gallery, I like the idea of art people can actually afford as well.

Bronwen Little Eris Davies yes it sounds really nice if i was in the area i would definitely mooch along looks like a nice bimbly time to be had! I am in london 9th april perhaps u might be there again!?

Sean Worrall

well if all goes well and all parties are happy then yes, maybe a regular Saturday thing. Now all we need are some cakes with scissors on or soemthing like that.

There's a Netil market facebook page here
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gi...d=276168656857&v=wall

Zoie Mccormack Did someone say cakes with scissors on them ??? Im ya Gal x

one old sketchbook battered and brused and coming to

one old sketchbook battered and brused and coming to an end and ready to be packed up on the pile on the shelf with all the others. One nice gleaming new untouched book waiting for a month of rides on buses, tube trains, visits to musical establishments...

Glorious day, just dragged a nice new box that once contained a

Sean Worrall

Glorious day, just dragged a nice new box that once contained a 32" flat screen TV, nce big carboard 'canvas' for today, time to paint it ready for thr weekend's activities... Oh and anyone coming to the Organ gig on Thursday gets in cheaper if they produce a sketchbook at the door and are obviously making use of said sketchbook... in fact you can come in free if you say you read it here. I'll be on the door. Thursday night Organ gig at the Victoria, Dalston, London E8, Lilies On Mars album launch party with DJs and things afterwards

Sean Worrall Here's the event, come and draw people at the gig - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=199613076731051

nothing left outside the studio... well besides these big piece of mirrored card stencils thing

No canvas finds today, nothing left outside the studio... well besides these big piece of mirrored card stencils thing that someone somewhere has cut a load of heart shapes out of and then whe nthey could cut no more, thrown the rest in the bin... only for the unwanted bits to fall my way where they have helped shaped things on top of last week's found canvas - new layers from recycled bits of throw away art waste

Sean Worrall But there is a canvas this morning, a small A4 size canvas with what looks like the start of a landscape on it and a piece of paper taped to it saying "for Sean".
10 March at 08:10

Monica Nelson Somebody threw out a bookshelf once and I pried the back off of it and it made a wonderful canvas ( and brought a lot of it's own character because of age and use). Doors thrown out during renovations...good to always walk around with a cart if one doesn't have a car....mirrors and glass (maybe a bit chipped) thrown out...everywhere one looks there's something to paint and draw on!11 March at 02:09

Sean Worrall

oh yes there always is soemthing, but I particularly like the idea of working with other people's unresolved unwanted unfinished or abandoned art. working over other people's marks while leaving traces, kind of why street art feels so good,... the bits that are underneath or on top or eaten at by the weather....

There's always doors, pieces of wood, cardboard, got a nice flat screen computer monitor here that has now become a canvas... always something to recycle and paint on (and then leave out again)

11 March at 10:02

The Vins And Eva canvas left outside the studio

The Vins And Eva canvas left outside the studio here earlier (see futher down this profile for more details) this week. This is how it looks before I touch it....

Sean Worrall And now about to be worked on as part of the forthcoming show of collaborations

ah, Monday morning, new canvas found, in one of those industrial waste bins right outside my studio... I rather like this one (photo later), the work of VINS AND EVA as in http://ilovetofuckyou.blogspot.com/ - looks like a finished piece, wonder why they left it in the bin outside the studio?

Sean Worrall there was also some very high heel boots left outside the studio door last night... first I shall paint them, then paint on them...

Rip Cruncher Careful Worrall, you might just get what you wish for.

Sean Worrall Now we're on a roll, nice big canvas with a rich red orange and very dark blue pisce with a heart scratched in the oil paint and it all got a little bit wet in the ran outside. no idea who did this one or indeed if it was any more than coincidence that it was outside in that rain today... drying out in the corner of the studio now...

Sean Worrall high heeel shoes, stuffed polecats, old canvas beasts, bring them all here.. I spotted something intresting and picture fram shaped outside Netil House a little while ago... back in a bit...

Sean Worrall A nice big framed embrodery sampler is what I spotted...

Sean Organ there's a great big hexagonal wooden frame outside this morning with "V+E" stenciled on it... looks like an old fashion mirror frame from a bedroom dressing table...

Steven Rawlings Looking good Mr Worrall. Like what you've done. Definately a show (or just a rather nice working method) in the reclaimed cavases. Keep up the good work Sir

Sean Worrall Thank you Mr Rawlings Sir, I do see it as an interesting working method - found thingd recycled or things brought in to be changes, marks that I wouldn't naturally make myself, marks waiting there to be worked with or on or around. I do want to extend all this to a 'show' or 'exhibition' or some kind of interactive thing in a space where people can bring pieces in to be worked on and things evolve through a week as pieces are worked on and people come in and contribute and add marks or thoughts or...

Steven Rawlings Mr W Sir, I think that sounds like a bloody good idea for a show. Love the idea of the pieces evolving during the show.........now all u need to do is find some time between organing, resonancing, painting, giging etc etc. makes me tired just writing it all

Sean Worrall Ha, let me jsut finish this album review and then just need to find the right place to do it all in in terms of a venue/gallery/space, an empty shop I can use for a week or something... Somewhere where people can come in a see the art and also where they can bring their unresolved pieces of work (or anonymously leave work if they prefer) or want to come work on other pieces or... a bit like the art bin last year only we save it all from the bin and give it new life...01 March at 12:52 ·

Steven Rawlings Must be an empty Woolworths somewhere! For a bring not buy 01 March at 13:06

Sean Worrall indeed there must. Actually spent quite a bit of time trying to find an empty shop last year, nightmare with red tape and business rates and such. Need to get on the case again. The place I was seriosuly chasing last year is still standing there empty, Hackney council couldn't talk to me about rates though, mainly becasue they said the shop didn't exist even though it stands there on a main street and I gave them photos of it...01 March at 13:13

Sean Worrall Anyway, not found a canvas today, so far...01 March at 13:15

Steven Rawlings

Was that the one with the big (gallery size) space below?
Shame - could have been a really nice place for collaboration/making/living. Always keeping an eye out South of the river for suitable places for live/work/display - will let you kno...w if find anything. No canvas fairies today then...See more

01 March at 14:11

Sean Worrall

yes, that's the one, we negotiated a great rent for such a stupidly big place but the crucial thing was the business rates, and Hackney Council couldn't talk to us about them because they claimed and still so claim the building does not exi...st! We are talking a mssive space on a main street...

Now what would be very nice, just for once, would be for someone to say, here's some space... spent so much time organising space last year...

no canvas faires yet today, no high heel shoe fairies either, mind you haven't looked outside for an hour or so... hang on, let me go lookSee more

01 March at 14:25

Sean Worrall Well now, this is getting very mysterious, more high heels, this time very high, almost new black ankle boots and this time with a message inside, "paint me"... and right outside the door...01 March at 14:39

Steven Rawlings Now that does sound interesting.......i'll leave you to it. Off to get my hands dirty with some clay (and a camera)01 March at 14:52

Sean Worrall I now find the need to look outside every five minutes...02 March at 18:22

Steven Rawlings and..........anything out there? Shoes, canvases, humans wearing shoes,
messages 02 March at 18:31

The first daffodil out of the studio bunker

The first daffodil out of the studio bunker darkness that has been the start of 2011, bring on the spring now please (work in progess....)