November 27, 2009 by jfha
Last week three of my pieces featured in RCA Secret 2009. I had, naughtily and rather unsecretly, already uploaded images of them to le blog some time ago, but if you would like to recap, check ’em out here. Here! And… HERE!! It’s always good to get feedback from folk outside the usual studio and crit circles, so I was very pleased to overhear other visitors’ enthusiastic comments about my work (eg. “I like number 1215″, etc, haha).
Also last week, I spent some time at the Henry Moore Institute library in Leeds. What an amazing resource. To have the opportunity to be immersed in books on sculpture, performance, art theory and history for a whole afternoon was a rare pleasure, and opened up 10,000 different paths to follow with my research. It makes me incredulous about how readily I used to fall asleep in the library when I was studying at UCL - one of those exquisite, old libraries that smell wise and beeswaxy and has books about absolutely everything you could ever possibly be interested in, ever. What an undeserving wastrel I was back then…
Anyway, returning to the here and now, the eagerly awaited second single from Bearcraft, Dark Night is out on Monday, with accompanying artwork by my good self – see below.
Bearcraft has also asked me to help make another video along with textile artist Isabel Vince and director of the Werewolf video, Chris King.
Out 30 November 2009 on Hottwerk
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I added more layers to this piece, Shrunken Victorian (2009) since I first featured it.
Ceremonial Suffragette (2009)
Suffragettes were possibly the first people who were tracked by photographic surveillance in this country. This suffragette is both disguised and celebrated with a head dress.
Shrunken Head (2009)
This piece was inspired by the South American shrunken heads in the archives of The British Museum.
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September 24, 2009 by jfha
I put up my window installation at Kino Cafe in Bristol last weekend. Run as a cooperative, the cafe sells very tasty and fairly priced veggie and vegan food, and have regular art shows and other events. It was quite hard to take pics due to the reflection on the glass, but here are a few!
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September 21, 2009 by jfha
Out today – Bearcraft’s debut single, The Werewolf. You can get a digital download of The Werewolf from iTunes.
My cover design may look familiar… I wanted to conjure a totemic, ritualistic feeling using my favourite materials which I’ve been obsessed with for the last four years – veneer (laminated paper this time) and neon papers. It’s hand collaged, using paper weaving, assembled doodles of eyes taken from many notebooks, sewn paper and envelope insides.
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September 20, 2009 by jfha
Some works in progress in a frenetic studio…
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September 17, 2009 by jfha
Here are some lightbox animals I made for the debut Bearcraft single, The Werewolf.
The photograph above was taken by Director Chris King.
And here are some masks…
Here are some images of the fun making process, which Chris took in my studio in Dalston.
Ben, who co-directed and filmed the video putting backing onto a lightbox…
Dicky sewing the moon…
Some of the props in situ on the first day of the shoot…
Dicky smouldering in his crown.
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Interactive map showing the area of Merton where Liberty and William Morris had their factories, and other elements of Merton’s rich textile history. To see the full Flash animation visit Merton Council’s River and Cloth project.
Commissioned by Merton Council, 2009.
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Cardboard, acrylic paint, 2009.
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Illustration of the traditional English folk song The Devil and the Feathery Wife, about a man who bargains with the devil. His wife ends up rolling around in feathers and dung to stop the devil taking her husband to Hell. Full narrative, as arranged by Martin Carthy found here.
Maple burr veneer, acrylic paint, cardboard, 2009.
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February 12, 2009 by jfha
Self portrait as mousquetaire.
Felt tip and white crayon on neon green paper, 2008.
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February 12, 2009 by jfha
Cardboard, veneer, cotton and collaged papers, 2008.
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Acrylic, waterbased ink and newsprint, 2005.
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Cardboard, cotton, glue, salt dyed using black food colouring, 2006.
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Subsonic in burr, 2006.
Enlarged component of a model stealth fighter wing, veneered in maple burr. Below is the frame left over.
Sprue, 2006
Pine
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Sketch for a three-dimensional spirograph drawing. I was much happier in the end with this dog eared maquette, teetering on its own parquet wings, than the final piece, which was a metre tall rendition of the same shape in laminate flooring with green baise edging. The fragile nature of the cardboard and the slightly clumsy marks of my working out add to its preposterousness as an object. Neither a pretty Christmas decoration, nor an equisite mathematical equation, it is an unassuming, playful and pointless object.
Cardboard, glue, veneered pine, 2006.
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Hooded stork, 2007
Wood leather, needle and bone.
Pinned leather in orange, 2007
Leather, pins, needles and wood.
Gold lame stork, 2007
Fabric, plywood, ornament.
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