LATEST PROJECT: track Using images of ‘migrant’ plant life found along a disused railway line in Oxfordshire over which I am superimposing sets of three words which reflect on not only the migrant plant histories but also reflect wider current concerns with displacement, nationality and sense of place. The Didcot to Newbury and Southampton railwa […]
Moogee the art dog has been savaging the pretentious, the idiotic and all the other manifestations of the I.A.W. (International Art World) for a few years now. This was Moogee’s first trip out of the kennel at the now defunct Egerton Studio in what was once the largest artists studios complex outside London. More of [...]
12 paintings each related to a song on the album ‘Suit of Nettles’ (hear below). Drawing on American South Folk Art and contemporary ‘Modern Folk’ artists like Daniel Johnston and Margaret Kilgallen. As the Professor from Derby said ” this is not naive art..this is knowingly done” ..it takes a lot of knowledge to paint [.. […]
A series of low resolution images from South Oxfordshire which were then added to with texts. These were the first experiments in mixing text and photographs and the first time I explored the ‘hinterland’ between ‘artwork and poetry’ which are two key cornerstones of my artistic practice. The one word additions are not illustrative […]
This images below are created through using wordpress CMS – the images are individual jpegs and the software draws them from the uploads area of a wordpress database. As they are each stored as full images and thumbnails I can use them as a ‘Flower Typewriter’ and write any message I wish. The original images come from [...]
I have placed a link to ‘Train Diary’ on front page of website. HERE This was the project I did not complete and show at Lincoln because I became so disillusioned with the course. Instead I showed the ‘Suit of Nettles’ PR show cop-out..to fill the space as I felt this project was too complicated for what [...]
(The following article started out as a coda to the evaluation I was asked to write for the Derby Postgrad. Course and ended up as a stand alone piece on my Moogee art criticism blog) http://belcheresque.wordpress.com Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to loose Nothing, I mean nothing honey if it ain’t free, no no Yeah feeling good [... […]
‘Conrad Atkinson Remix 1978-2008′ by Moogee the Art Dog has been selected for ‘Penned’ July 17, 6-8pm, 2008 – Opening Reception July 18-20, 2008 – ARTSCAPE at the Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore An exhibition of pen and/or marker drawings including photographs of the pens used to make them. The more t […]
‘Conrad Atkinson Remix 1978-2008′ by Moogee the Art Dog has been selected for ‘Penned’ at the Pinkard Gallery, Bunting Center, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore An exhibition of pen and/or marker drawings including photographs of the pens used to make them. The more than 100 drawings in this exhibition cover a broad range o […]
Bits, Bands and Books New York Times By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: June 6, 2008 Do you remember what it was like back in the old days when we had a New Economy? In the 1990s, jobs were abundant, oil was cheap and information technology was about to change everything. Then the technology bubble popped. Many highly touted New Economy companies, [...]
See and listen to the Lincoln UK exhibition - Here trailer star – suit of nettles ‘Connect 08′ - The Collection, Lincoln, England 25th April -29th May 2008 First response is the layout of gallery did not help either viewing of the canvasses ( no point where all 12 canvasses could be seen straight on) and music [...]
Art’s counter-culture, however diverse, holds in plain sight what the material world denies – love and imagination. Art is made out of both – a passionate reckless love of the work in its own right, as though nothing else exists, and an imaginative force that creates something new out of disparate material. Art’s experiments are [...] […]
Nottingham Trent University Staff Drawing Show. 21st April – 9th May showing two drawings from The Big Drop sequence 1989! Selected by my mentor Terry Shave – Professor of Fine Art at Nottingham Trent University.
So as we get nearer to deadline things shaping up ..or is that out? Basically I had shot myself in foot in brochure and by specifying Brochure entry as ‘Trailer Star’ and for 12 canvases I cannot switch to a Moogee ‘alternative’. Probably for best and has meant I ‘finished’ the paintings in time for show [...]