everyone was talking, I couldn’t hear what I was playing. I could either turn the sound up or stop
Peter Saul
Les Abbatoirs: 20/9/19-26/1/20 Painting is 60% Painting 40% Socio Political Engagement, for Peter Saul at least. In principal, I agree;…
Process, Process, Process
A good curator trusts the process, a great curator encourages and reifies it. In painting there are broadly speaking three…
The Bus to Bonn, Kippenberger’s in Town
The German bad boy of painting, spoilt, unreliable, amateur, erratic, sarcastic, seducer
Painting, Personality and Politics
Working beside Jeroen Elsen made me think differently about painting and the relationship of the painter to the painted object.…
What’s a Figari?
Pedro Figari’s dancing minstrels dressed in frocks set in a background of 19th century Plata question what painting is. Like…
Russon Black
One day, they’ll make a colour: Russon Black, it’ll flow like ice cream straight out of the tube, it’ll dry…
It’s Over
We came to the end of our four week adventure, it was as intense as China and the work show…
Between Hesitation and Doubt
This residency has been an odyssey in painting, testing, trying, dreaming, failing, functioning and crossing paths. There is no map…
Materiality and the Accident
This idea of the book as a process, as Hélène Cixous writes, lets things happen, evolves with the process. Odilon…