Monday, 16 August 2010
MORE NOTIONS OF STREET ART...
NOTIONS OF STREET ART... Went out for milk this morning, found two big canvas beasts waiting for the bin-men, one with a big rip that will require more stitching (as did last week's found canvas) and the other with some kind of unfinished school artwork course work (I know this because a note saying 'course work' so is stapled to it), it looked like decent start, wonder if that's the end of the person's artistic output? Thrown out at the end of their school life... but no, not heading for the dump, saved and now probably heading for a gallery in September once I get to work on it... For this is one of my notions of street art, these abandoned (clearly unfinished) canvas pieces are my personal walls waiting for new layers, walls to be painted on, to be added to , worked over... my radar is tuned, forever on the look out for canvas or frames or... yesterday a flat screen computer monitor found on the street, now out back waiting for paint, the thing is broken, cracked screen, looks great when plugged in ...
Tuesday, 10 August 2010
The Harvist is in...
Neglecting things a little in blog land, not enough hours.... The adventure at Harvist Gallery is over for now, the three summer shows have now been and gone... three shows, more than fifty artists, it didn't work quite in the collective way we hoped it would, ended up me/us running a gallery and everyone else just sticking their work on the walls (or letting us stick the work on the walLs for them). It was a positive experience, most of it went well, most of it was a pleasure, lots of interaction, lots of interest from people, healthy reaction, some sales... It all got a little in the way of the process of making art... meant for a lot of healthy interaction with other artists... it was good... on to the next thing
Tuesday, 20 July 2010
THE 100 PAINTINGS SUMMER SHOW...
Today I'm herding artists together, slightly harder than herding cats... 40 plus creative creatures and now with added RUDENESS from Miss Roberts and her Rude Mechanicals....
PATRICK'S HARVIST GALLERY SPACE, 45 CHAMBERLAYNE ROAD, KENSAL RISE, NW10 (travel details via the gallery pages at www.organart.com)
Opennig night party/view Thursday 22nd July from 6.30pm onwards
One Hundred paintings on the gallery walls for ten days.. One hundred vibrant pieces of art and all on sale at a price of one hundred pounds. One hundred times one hundred... We're carefully selecting the art right now, there will be no more than four pieces of art per artist s...o you can expect lots of vibrant variety from both established and emerging art makers from London and beyond. Expect a variety of styles, contradictions, paint, print, pop art, street art, fine art, illustration, things that don't fit anywhere...
The show opens on the evening of Thursday July 22nd and will run in the gallery space until August 1st. Expect an opening night party with live entertainment in the cafe area while the art will be on view in the rooms of the basement gallery... Come meet the artists, come socialise, network. come make use of this space we Organ team have bee nworking with all summer...
We have a live performance, the tearoom area on the opening night, MISS ROBERTS AND HER RUDE MECHANICALS will perform a one off set. This wil lnot be a ful lband performance, it wil lbe Miss Roberts and some of the Rude Mechanicals with Rude Mechanicals songs, words, poetry, spoken word and visual peformance.
MISS ROBERTS AND HER RUDE MECHANICALS will perform a musical set at 8pm. DJ MARVIN will keep the evening flowing with his dance vibes until we kick you a lout al lyou all decided to leave....
Expect to always find 100 pieces on show, as pieces are bought new ones will replace them, ever evolving, ever exciting, always 100 paintings/pieces on the wall ...
There's a Facebook event page if you like that sort of thing
THE ART OF ARTISTS DOING IT ALL THEMSELVES..
ARTISTS INVOLVED INCLUDE
TAHIRA BEGUM
MARIA BRESONALLO
ALEXANDRA CARULA
BOUDICCA COLLINS
MARK COVERDALE
RUTH EGGINGTON
MICHELLE EVANS
GRIMES & JONES
EMMA HARVEY
GURDISH HAUGSDAL
JESSICA HILLS
PATRICK HOBBS
ANGIE HOGAN
EMILY JACKSON
EMMA KNOWLES
CHRIS KONING
HEATHER LENNOX
EM LOCKREN
SUSANA LOPEZ FERNADEZ
LOUIS MICHAEL aka MASAI
MIMI
BEN OAKLEY
ELIZABETH OSBOURNE
LULU PARENT
VIJAY PATEL
ASHLEY REAKS
SOPHIE REDPATH
ROB REED
CARRIE REICHARDT
MISS ROBERTS
JAY DEE SCOTT
NAOMI SHAW
MARIA SLOVAKOVA
CLAUDIA STOCK
INES SZAMREY
DIXIE TURNER
IAN WALKER
CLAIRE WARD-THORNTON
DAVID WILLIS
SEAN WORRALL
Sunday, 18 July 2010
paint what you need to get by in life...
Must stop this cut'n paste social media cross referencing, things are getting rather messy around here, almost as messy as it is under the Westway right now... Do like being under the Westway though, lot of history there...
So how was yesterday?
Oh yes, sun, high winds, rain, hot sun again, drawing, people watching, pop stars, sports stars, silly questions, "hey dude do you know Banksy?" good questions, "are they leaves or hearts?" old friends, new friends, good people, good art, Carrie's truck, real Notting Hill people, the place has so much soul if you scratch the surface a little, paintings sold, paintings shared... really good to meet you yesterday, thanks for coming down... The paintings of the cup of coffee and the sandwich sold rather quickly when they came out of the bag around mid day, the cup of coffee painting exchanged for a cup of coffee bought by a lady from New York, the sandwich painting by a couple who thought it was an excellent idea and said they would come back next week and that I should paint something else for them to go buy in exchange... Now what should it be...? A whole new aspect to the what is affordable art question... paint what you need to get by in life... Some fruit? New boots?
Carrie's ceramic tile covered truck stole the day again, always the star where ever it goes
The ongoing what is affordable art question? what price a cup of coffee?
Social media cross reference number 457
Sean Worrall The ongoing what is affordable art question takes me to Portobello Road once more this Saturday. 10am until 5pm I shall once more be under the Westway over here in (hopefully Sunny) West London.... this time as part of the new Portobello Art and Design market (under the Westway where the Mutate shows were) and hopefully selling some very very reasonably priced art.
No free art on the streets (or in your trees) this week, well I might leave a piece or two somewhere on the way there, or maybe on the way back home from the market... you shall know me by the trail of art... come have a look, come say hello, the photos of the market are on the Love Portobello Facebook page...
I shall report back to you fellow artists and designers next week and tell you if the thing be any good or not, looks good in the photos and under the Westway is always good... land of THe Clash, Hawkvibes, Crash and such...
Come down, say hello, come see.. expect art on cardboard, on vinyl on canvas and more, expect prices to start at... oh let me see, maybe we'll have some 1p pieces, yes why not... maybe some pay whatever you want pieces... expect affordable art. Maybe I'll paint a cup of coffee and and some food and the price will be that you go get me a cup of coffee and the piece is your in exchange...
Don't know who else has a stall there this week but the photos on the Love Portobello Facebook page look interesting...
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Love-Porto
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=138759786142345&ref=mf
Sunday, 11 July 2010
And then on Saturday art was left in a tree...
And then on Saturday art was left in a tree in London NW10, up above a summer street party... and Facebook said....
Yesterday at 11:10 ·
Sean Worrall today I shall leave three new paintings in a tree in College Road, NW10....
Ian Skinner
That is a splendid idea.
Yesterday at 12:47 · ·
Sean Worrall
always look to the trees... leafhearts? Leaves or hearts?
Yesterday at 12:54 · ·
Jamie Malone
Hehe that's a nice thing to offer the trees : ) and the people should they look up
22 hours ago · ·
Dewi Evans
I used to live near there...
21 hours ago · ·
Meryl Barton
...Just a Shame It's not Our Own C L Uper Bangor....Dream on X
18 hours ago · ·
Sean Worrall
Now that would be good, College Road, Bangor... one day... still have a booming Welsh voice in my head telling me things like I'm not looking or that drawing is 90% looking, 10% doing.... One painting still up in the tree, the highest one I left...
17 hours ago · ·
Sean Worrall
Update, saw someone walk past the studio window this morning with the third painting from the tree on the corner (up early on a Sunday morning painting here), I like this leaving pieces where I can see them... wonder who he was? Today is Resonance FM day, I shall leave three paintings on the Southbank on the way to the to the studio (on air at 9pm... See more with a bag load of Organgrining and some music and what have you - www.resonancefm.com or 104.4FM in London, haven't been on for almost a month... Organ break as it were, a whole three weeks without listening to any new music, for the last 20 odd years I've scribbled at least one review of something new every day, there's a mountian of new CDs here to catch up with..)
6 hours ago · ·
Jamie Malone
as i say : ) very nice idea.you must have many paintings? http://miracletelepathy.blogspot.com/
5 hours ago · ·
Sean Worrall
yes I paint a new piece most days, I treat my pieces like walls, ever evolving, fresh marks over old marks, no work is ever quite complete, there's always room for some new "graffiti" marks or some extra leaf growth.. .Some pieces are worked on for months, some for hours, some are almost instant - spray paint and screen print, stencil and drip, ... See moreresist work, doesn't take too long to make a satisfying mark and some art just needs to be left on the street to in a tree or outside a gallery, some art needs to be painted on a real wall or an old abandoned car or...
5 hours ago · ·
Jamie Malone
thats great : ) and i really like your work, i live in north london, so when i am out and about i will keep my eyes and ears out for a piece
5 hours ago · ·
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And two more penny pieces were left virtually.....
Sean Worrall For those who can't find pieces on the street there's always the ongoing virtual leaving on the street 1p ebay experiment that so far has seen art posted out to Newcastle, Liverpool, South London, this week two pieces put up, one piece on blue 7" vinyl (a never played slice of old Dream City Film Club/Rhatigan vinyl thi...s time and the other on one of those pieces of thick card that was once a flatscreen TV box.... Each piece there with an opeing bid price of 1p
ixed-media-STREET-ART-SEAN-W-/140425672642?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_art_Paintings_GL&hash=item20b205b7c2
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CHERRY-LEAFHEART-M
CHERRY LEAFHEART Mixed media STREET ART - SEAN W.
Sean Worrall
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LEAF