COLOUR REDUCTIONS...

A set of four paintings done yesterday, June 4th 2011. Four pieces on 40cm x 50cm canvas with spray paint. Reducing previous pieces to just shapes and markS rather than the previous layers of colours upon colour...

AAA Collective show/art shop goes on this weekend...

Well now, the morning after the AAA collective First Thursday show. Things were chaotically DIY and the organisation was at times 'interesting', somehow the show all came together almost on time and did rather like the way everyone pulled together and let's do it ourdleves spirit of it. And it was a pleasure sharing an early Summer evening by the canal in East London with some positive pro-active people, some good art and some going ahead and doing it without some gallery owner exploiting things or dictating direction... This nothing new of course, collectives and artists pulling together and doing it themselves, did enjoy dipping a toe or two in the (canal) water with the AAA group though...

The show continues this week end in the gallery space by the Canal in Dalston/shoreditch, Acton Mews, London E8, just off the Kingsland road, by the bridge and the car wash. The gallery/shop is open this Saturday and Sunday, 11am until 7pm. Some of thr artists will be there, I expect people will be painting and such (I will be for some of the time)

Old 78s left on an East London street....

A whole plie of old 78s, there they were just waiting in the side of the road by the rubbish bin, waiting to me taken home and painted on. Getting them ready for tomorrow's show at AAA Gallery with the Art Shop Collective... June 1st 2011. Fine some on sale, fine others left by the canal. Twelve painted today..

Love the quality of these old 78rpm singles, the labels are works of art on their own. Do wonder who they belonged to, someone's much loved early 1950's collection just left out on the street in East London next to a recycle bin. A big part... of someone's life just left on the pavement. Hope they don't mind me painting on them, better than them being just forgotten about and thrown in ot a landfill of something (the material can't be recycled in any conventional recycling way). They really are beautiful things...

THE ART SHOP COLLECTIVE - FIRST THURSDAY

I will be showing some work alongside this rather pro-active collective... Down by the canal in East London, down by the canal in E8 (I like painting by the canal). Happening this Thursday as part of East London First Thursday...


AAA Magazine presents Art Shop Collective: A pop-up gallery shop that shall be celebrating this FirstThursday

27 artists specialising in a range of artistic disciplines. Offering for sale an assortment of work suitable for every pocket.

In keeping with our ethos of both celebrating and supporting creativity, there will be Live music, Live performance art... and a fully stocked bar complete with complimentary food stuffs.

AAA Magazine presents Art Shop Collective: A pop-up gallery shop that shall be celebrating this FirstThursday

27 artists specialising in a range of artistic disciplines. Offering for sale an assortment of work suitable for every pocket.

In keeping with our ethos of both celebrating and supporting creativity, there will be Live music, Live performance art, ....and a fully stocked bar complete with complimentary food stuffs.

www.arthurandalbert.com

AAA STUDIO
50 ACTON MEWS
(JUST BY THE CANAL OFF KINGSLAND ROAD)

AAA STUDIO
50 ACTON MEWS
LONDON E8 4EA
(JUST BY THE CANAL OFF KINGSLAND ROAD)

BLACK (LEAF)HEARTED SWIRL BUILDING....

An effort must be made to blog, two blackhearted pieces from yesterday, one on canvas one of what was once red vinyl and more work on the big 8ft tall canvas that was found left on the street just before Christmas, started painting leaves on it on New years Eve, layers have been building up, still a work in progress, far from finished...

EVA'S SWIRL...

I know, not keeping the blog flowing, too busy painting (and Organ-grinding). This big 8ft tall canvas was left outside the studio at the start of May, I've talked about people leaving unresolved work here before, people are picking up on the idea...

There's a photo of what it looked like is what before I touched it. and what it looks like now I've added a layer or two of leaf growth and a swirl and such. I do know who left the original piece for me to work on, need to check if the artist wishes to be named before I do...

THINGS LEFT ON THE FLOOR.... Haven't found a used unwanted abandoned canvas (or records or...) on the street for days now, however this morning there was a nice inspiring pile of pieces deliberately left and waiting outside the studio though... "Paint on these" was the message left... Several good looking pieces painted on some kind of black hardwood floor covering material, and a great big fold up piece of canvas that's just been painted blue... I rather like these small pieces as they are but that really isn't the point of these collaborations, reworkings, remixings, paint-over recycling ideas. As I've said before this is art that others feel is unresolved or unfinished or that they've taken to a logical conclusion and.... these have been left here on purpose, therefore I am obliged to work on them or with them...