These are works I’ve created with
They are made live during performances where I react to the improvised music being performed, and likewise, the music is informed by the painting. Most works are over five and a half feet wide/tall and are made using a variety of mediums including house paint, acrylic, charcoal, ink, and graphite.
INDIGO BAR (MANCHESTER) - 2009
ABERDEEN SOUND FESTIVAL - 2009
FUEL (MANCHESTER) - 2009
UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH - 2009
THE NOISE UPSTAIRS (96 x 171 cm, 2009) - contact mics were attached to the canvas. Those sounds were processed and manipulated to create a soundscape that would then re-inform the creation of the painting.
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INTERFACING WITH THE CARCASS (71 x 61cm, each panel, 2009)- I wanted to allow this work to grow organically, and followed the image across three canvases. I only concerned myself completely with with the quality of marks and gestures made on each individual canvas--those I did micromanage. By not managing the overall composition of the tryptic, I discovered the image instead of inventing it.
BODIES OF NOISE (43 x 43cm, 2009) - Used as the Cover of The Noise Upstairs vol. 1
BLOODBROTHER (110 x 69cm, 2009) - He hangs at the top of my stairs looking gory.
WATER THE LIVING WITH THE DREAMS OF THE DEAD (61x46 cm, 2007). This was a performable drawing, where I continue to develop the themes and ‘characterizations’ that I first discovered in ‘CHRISTMAS’.
(71 x 61cm, 2009) This is the first of another such series. We’ll see what happens
HUMAN (47x45cm, 2007)
Here is a some of my older work.
(144x179cm, 2008)
CHRISTMAS (91x46 cm, 2005). I started this work at a failure, arc of beauty rehearsal. I finished it by bringing out certain elements from the initial gestures made. After this painting, I started trusting that narratives and meaning form almost incidentally--in a desirable way--and in a way that I didn’t have to be completely conscious of. This work changed everything.
TAKAHASHI’S SHELLFISH CONCERN (2006)
(61x46 cm, 2007, charcoal only)
FAoB Full Set (61x46cm, 2005) - Created during failure, arc of beauty. This is a more figurative approach to representing music, made when I was first exploring how to reconcile the two art forms.
RODRIGO (69 x 57cm, 2010)
STEPPED MID-RISE (87 x 70cm, 2010) - development on a canvas from a Takahashi’s Shellfish Concern performance.