Saturday, 27 February 2010

the big wall canvas

Where is the spring? Where are those green shoots of new life? Need it to arrive now, had enough of this bad life and not being able to get out, need the new leaf growth, buds of trees, need those daffodils, need this to be a creative productive positive busy year of painting and energy and enough of this being stuck in doors in the cold and the bad light looking at the bleak trees and the winter defiantly hanging on... Sun trying to fight through the wind and rain today, need to get out there, need to get out and make art outside, share art outside...

There's the big wall canvas, been treating this like my own wall in here through the winter months, adding marks, layers of graff-leaves and spray paint marks, the marks you would associates with tags and street graffiti, marks on top of marks, the new covering the old, layer over layer, far from finished and new marks to be added and new leaf growth, more layers on the canvas wall, many layers to be added yet... should have been documenting it as the layers build up...

Got a great e.mail yesterday from someone who had found another of the seven inch vinyl pieces... Enough, time to get out and paint, oh, the sun has gone in, 1pm and I need to turn the lights on in here again...

Time to organise a show...

Wednesday, 24 February 2010

Week Six of the virtual street experiment


Week Six of the leaving work on the virtual street experiment, back to painting on found reclaimed recycled cardboard this week and a piece called "S15082422" (the size is 14cm x 37cm). Last week's vinyl piece of work is off to Newcastle yet again (am I being collected?). Once again the piece is on Ebay and the opening bid price once more is just one penny, view it (or even bid for it) here on Ebay. I'm rather enjoying this...

Richard Hamilton's 88th birthday today, the father of pop art? Certainly of British pop art

Back to this big canvas piece I've been working on here for a few months now, been revisiting the wall that is this big piece of once very white canvas to add more marks since last Summer. This isn't street art but it certainly is influenced by the excitment of the marks street artists make, the idea of fresh makrs and new spray over old marks, I use leaves rather than letter forms but it is graffiti, green growth over walls, the Captains Table and Trillian greens sprayed out of paint cans...

Monday, 22 February 2010

And they are so much better in the flesh


"Thank you very much... that was a great surprise, I saw a blue one up this week and felt disappointed that I wouldn't have it... And they are so much better in the flesh, I was really quite taken aback by the colours, I really love them, just perfect, thanks. And just what I needed having got home with a horrible sore throat and drinking a lemsip. Thank you, they're great, I love them...." read the e.mail from this week's happy 'winner' of last week's 1p piece left on ebay... a black seven inch piece of leaf covered vinyl. But a black one couldn't leave here alone, so a blue one went with it... and yes, you really can't see the colours of any of this art on line, can't see the colour, the texture, you don't feel the need to touch...

I do rather like this recycling of old vinyl records that remain here from the days when I had a record company hat to wear. And I do rather like leaving them to be found on the virtual street at places like Ebay or the real street... no more feedback from the ones left to be found, wonder if they were found or went in the bin or....

Thursday, 18 February 2010

"Is this like some sort of Banksy thing? Will it be worth a lot of money?"

the 1p multi media leaving art on the virtual street experiment goes on, week five is a blue vinyl seven inch record, find it here on ebay. Last week's has been packaged up this morning ready to go to East London, deepest Deptford. There are 24 of these singles, mostly black vinyl, this one is an old Dream City Film Club/Rhatigan single we put out back in the last century - never sold it, bee nhere unplayed andsd unloved, will it gind a loving home now?. Some of these seven inch leaf covered singles have gone on line at ebay, some left on the street, once all 24 have gone then that is it, this series of leaves on seven inch vinyl will be gone. There's a couple for sale in Graffik Gallery, Ladbrook Grove, West London...

Got an e.mail from someone called Mike who found one of the seven inch vinyl pieces in Greek Street, Soho, this week. He seemed rather pleased with his find. "Is this like some sort of Banksy thing? Will it be worth a lot of money?" he said, "are there any more?"
Maybe some on a tube train somewhere later on... Wonder what happened to the rest, need one of those tracking things that put on geese to see where they fly...

Case show opening tonight at Signal Gallery, you'll find more about that on the art pages of Organ over at www.organart.com

Tuesday, 16 February 2010

Batch of fresh leaf-growth on black(and blue) 7" vinyl

A repost of a Twitter - well a Twitter explanded a little beyond 140 bites... the links will take you to Twitter page or... This is what's been happening with cold Montana and vinyl that once lived for the music of Gog Magog, Rhatigan and Dream City Film Club...

Sean_Worrall - Batch of fresh leaf-growth on black(and blue) #recycled seven inch vinyl, find ten of these pieces left around #London tomorrow - www.organart.com/aartvinyl1.htm #streetart

There's 24 of them in all, these seven inch leaf pieces... That's all there ever will be, they've all numbered on the back...

Saturday, 13 February 2010

Some art isn't meant to last forever....


The fourteen painting "wall of love" collection of canvas pieces that exists at Graffik gallery (Portobello Road, London) right now, will be taken down once this weekend is over. The pieces may exist on Canvas but these walls evolve and no, this isn't quite street art but it is in the spirit and so this paintings will exist in this state for one more weekend, unless that is someone chooses to allow them to stay as they by buying them. Anything left of the wall will be treated just as any other wall covered in those marks of a street art nature and the canvas pieces will evolve some more... None of these paintings are ever finished. Of course in any of them are 'sold' there's no reason why the next person can't work on the canvas should they choose... just as this current set of vinyl record paintings were once pieces of music I released on my record label (ORG) and are now a set of circular paintings... some art shaped things just aren't meant to last forever

Wednesday, 10 February 2010

The 1p PAINTING EXPERIMENT PART 4, THIS WEEK ON VINYL



And on goes the 1p multi-media painting experiment and leaving a piece a week out in the virtual world to be picked up physically by the highest bidder. This is piece/week number four, last week's piece sold for £1.21. So far pieces off to Newcastle and Liverpool. Lots of feedback and questions and such, I'm rather enjoying this...

This week we move from cardboard to black vinyl and a seven inch vinyl record. never played, fresh stock and a punk band from London and a single released in 1995, band called Gog Magog, not that that matters now, you can't play it anymore (well I don't think you can...). Came out on my label ORG Records

So once again you can find the piece on ebay here, you can bid on it, you can watch it, seven day auction... out there on the virtual street...

Meanwhile, out on the real street, you might just find some around Soho tomorrow where we might just be for the preview of the Faile/Bast show(s), more of that on the latest Arts new page over at www.organart.com, lots of news over there in Organgrinding land...