I must admit that as I missed
finishing Tattooed Tumour Box in time for submission for this year's
Jerwood Drawing Prize (and now have nearly a year to get it ready for
next year's open), and have been occupied with completing new work
for my current solo show, Dreams of Being Batman, progress on TTB has
slowed down somewhat.
However, here's the most recently
'tattooed' section of the semi-assembled structure, along with the
original drawing that I came up with for said section. As I mentioned
in the previous progress report, all the drawings are based upon
found objects and materials that I've been collecting for potential
use in my sculptures. Even though I have a pretty vast collection of
material oddities it still takes me a long time to sift through it
all and select pieces that I think will work well together in a
drawing. Obviously I take a bit of artistic licence with the sketches
(altering scale, and morphing elements here and there, or just plain
make stuff up) but I like to keep a lot of the elements
proportionally accurate.
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To prove that I haven't forgotten TTB,
here's a new piece, 'At Any Time', that I finished just in time to
get framed-up and exhibited in my current show. As you can see, it's
based upon the drawing above, and is painted on a sign that I found
in the street. Yes, I did really find the sign in the street (among a
pile of rubbish from someone's flat clearance, by the look of it),
and not screwed to a sign post.
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