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....)

working on other people's work

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?

I feel a whole show of pieces of work done on other people's canvases or indeed sculptures or pieces of cardboard that other artists and such have left here. That one up there is a piece that Steven Rawlings brought around. I really liked it as it was, but that wasn't the point of him bringing it here, he would only leave it if I worked on it... so I have...

Anyone feel like dropping off some art and getting involved in this? leave it outside if you want, come knocking on the door if you want..

Contact me here or http://www.facebook.com/sean.worrall1

SPRING! VINYL, BOARDS, CANALS...

Right then, Spring is here, time to get out and paint up a storm of colour... think I'll go leave some painted vinyl out on the street today, or maybe up in the East London trees (and good to see someone finally got out there erased the New year's eve episode)... here's how things look out front of the bunker door right now, one found piece of board that came in off the street during the winter and now already to go back out now the sunshine is here... You'll find it down by the canal somewhere in E8 not far from London Fields waiting for someone to take it home later today..

And yes I know the blog has been neglected and my website even more so, I don't like the winter, lots of creativity been going on here in the dark bunker though, lots of new things to put up on line and leave on the Spring streets... Whole new website up in the next few days, this time made by someone who knows what she's doing. Lots of new work waiting to be seen. New art shows being booked and...

meanwhile I know there's no Organgrinding here but, this looks good and well here's a link http://www.organart.com/organthing093.html

ROA, ROBOTS>>>>, PHLEGM...

February 24rd 2011

I know we’ve probably gone on about the art of the ever prolific Roa a little too much in recent times here at Organ but he’s at it again and there can’t be too much Roa can there?

gentrification can't actually kill creativity...

of course gentrification can't actually kill creativity, you just stay one step ahead of it. I hadn't forgotten I had a blog, just took a step back from the internet for the winter while I paint away in our new bunker studio and new green shoots break the surface. Lots of painting, lots of canvas finding and recycling, things ready to leave on the street once more. Amusing to find that the same property pimp estate agents who helped push us out last year are using my art and the shows we put on last year as a selling point for the area that we can no longer afford to live in. Right there all over their website, have to smile at that one. No, gentrification can't kill creativity, the winter has been a productive positive one, surrounded by new work, happy in new surroundings, eating hot buttered toast and about to get on with these layers of daffodils that are threatening to shows their faces any day now... Time to blog a bit, like those daffodils, I'm ready to emerge for the spring...

Now then, all you artists who's work we had the pleasure of hanging on walls and showing in shows last year. what do you have coming up? Be nice to see these invites to join in were working in both directions...

GENTRIFICATION KILLS CREATIVITY:

neglected blog... but not through apathy, just busy doing actually rather than writing/talking about doing... Paint alive and going off and things... A collection of reasonably big new pieces coming together for this new show in Kensal Green... that and searching for new space to put events on and pull art together

GENTRIFICATION KILLS CREATIVITY: Spent an interesting couple of days searching out London area live-in art spaces, abandoned hotels, cheap unloved factory spaces that need converting and such (not squats). Found a great space yesterday that could be converted in to 12 or so live-in art-making spaces and a gallery... ...we'll know next week if our proposal for that one goes through although I now hear someone wants for a corporate media company base.

Fed up with the way some galleries treat artists, really enjoying showing other people's work, time to shake it up even more, need alternative spaces.... as excited about the other painters at the next show as I am about my work . Found a great old (closed) railway station that would make for a great gallery/work space but Network Rail are far too tied up in red tape and obstructions to want to make it happen...

Anyone got any interesting gallery space they need running I wonder ?

Anyone interested in these ideas, getting involved in alternative art making/living space and such, there's a core group of artists looking, but space could mean we need/want more.... Had enough of greedy landlords, estate agents and the gentrification of our living / creative spaces

Need more/better creative, bathroom overflowing with new work drying...