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Point Me At Lost Islands

27/1/2012

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Oh gosh, the last Reside Residency post for me...I shall miss it.

Any-hoo, here we go: I set out to try some new ideas and post them in a way that is unusual for me. I was prepared for no ideas at all or maybe a couple that went nowhere. I figured that if I set to rigid a plan I would get stage fright and nothing would come out. It would be a bit like one of those dreams where you are sitting in an exam you havnt revised for and you are unseasonably dressed.

So I followed one or two ideas where they led me which started with an old erotic text and wound its way though love stories some tragic and some not so much. I stopped off at a few islands and some of those islands now have happy owners. I made some drawings and found a place for them, here, when there really was'nt another logical place for them. The same can be said for the paper cut out works.

I did a fair bit of playing about with stuff and posted a bit of 'working from home' life, music and such. In my application for the residency I mentioned that I would calculate how many hours per week I spent on the sofa, tweeting. I opted not to carry out that particular piece of research, some things are just better left unknown.

In the end the Reside residency, like much of the work I made during my 6 months, was about escape either from or to something or both. The background to which was always an obsessive  kind of love story. (and a few of my own personal obsessions too-ahem, sorry about that)

A few pieces from Reside have made their way out into the world this piece went off to The Wallet Gallery and some of the Islands have made their way to West Gate Studios for Tweet Art, thanks to Bob Milner & Alice Bradshaw.

Thank you to everyone who read, 'LIKED', Retweeted, Shared, commented and sent me kind words of encouragement regarding this project. My feelings about Reside is that it will  be an ever increasing network of artists working within a wide range of disciplines. In simple terms, bringing artists together, making work and presenting it  when perhaps they have limited means to do so in real life. I think its working. What do you think?.....

My very best wishes to the next Reside Residency artist. Good luck, have fun, and blog like no ones reading.

Special and warmest thanks to Karl England.

These are the other places you can find me: My website/blog, Axis, Twitter, Face Book, Flickr, Good Reads, A Steady Gaze, Limerence & CorrArtful.

cheerio.

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some work from the 'Hidden islands' series produced during this residency. 2011.
_Reading List
(In the order in which I read them-more or less)

Here is a list of all of the books I have been reading while on the this Residency. (Bold indicates the books I had to abandon for, ahem, whatever sparkly book caught my eye. But they are still on my 'to read' list).

A new description of Merryland. Containing, a topographical, geographical, and natural history of that country. - Thomas Stretzer 1841
The queen of camp, Mea West and popular culture – Marybeth Hamilton
Circus and Victorian Society - Brenda Asseal
Lady Chatterleys Lover - D.H Lawrence
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Fanny Hill – John Cleland
The hare with the amber eyes – Edmond De Waal
Norwegian Wood - Haruki Murakami
Georges Bataille, essential writings- Michael Richardson
Story Of The Eye - Georgres Bataille
Forbidden Fruit, from the letters of Aberlard and Helois - Peter Ablard
Eros Unbound - Anais Nin
The Virgin and The Gypsy - DH Lawrence
Gabriel's Inferno - Sylvian Reynard
Bodily secrets - William Trevor
Warm Bodies - Isaac Marion
The end of the affair - Graham Greene
The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford - by Ron Hansen
First Love - Ivan Turgenev
Deviant Love - Sigmund Freud
The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand
Jane Eyre- Charlotte Bronte

One of my favourite songs: Tired Pony -Point me at lost islands
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The Last Island 2012. oil on paper, 12.5x15cm
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Barton Hollow

18/1/2012

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Hidden Islands (Place and escape) 2011, oil on found post card, 8cm
_If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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Counting The Stars

14/1/2012

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Mark Kermode talks about the film: 'The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford'  Directed by Andrew Dominik
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'..about the idea of approaching death but also about, I think importantly, about the idea, that the character who is going to kill Jesse James, is in a very modern celebrity conscious kind of way, obsessed by him.' Mark Kermode

I posted this clip on twitter the other week, so pardon the repeat.

This is my penultimate Reside post. It feels like the best place to stop (before the end of residency round up) because I am starting to get stuck into a new project centering around Robert Ford & Jesse James and although it has its origins in Reside it will have a different sort of outcome.....

I am writing this having had too much coffee and while watching Big Bang Theory we seem to have it on repeat lately, its been slim pickings on the telly of late (not including Sherlock -of course).

Anyway, the next and last post will be January 31st.
Bazinga!


If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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I ain't Jesus

8/1/2012

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_A page from 'The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford' by Ron Hansen.

I like the way Jesse acknowledges the miss placed fascination Robert has with him, but there is also a feeling that perhaps he enjoys it too.

If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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A rather lovely thing

4/1/2012

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Big Sky 2011, oil on found post card
_If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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Duncan & Fraser

31/12/2011

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_Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have a vision now and then
Of a world where every neighbour is a friend
Happy new year
Happy new year
May we all have our hopes, our will to try
If we don't we might as well lay down and die
You and I
Abba- Happy New Year
(Man, Abba are dark!)

I hope you had a restful Christmas and New Year

Here are the last  'Place and Escape' paintings from the 'Hidden Islands' series that I shall be posting on Reside.
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Frannie & Giovanni 2011, oil on postcard, 8.5cm
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Duncan & Fraser 2011, oil on postcard, 8.5cm
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The Lecture Theatre 2011, oil on postcard, 8.5cm
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Robbie & Cecilia 2011, oil on post card. 8.5cm
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The Pier 2011, oil on postcard, 8.5cm
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If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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What if I drink your blood?

15/12/2011

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_Pairs of paintings. The place and the escape.

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Oliver & Constance 2011, from 'The Hidden Island' series, oil on post card, 8.5cm
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What if I drink your blood? 2011, from 'The Hidden Island' series, oil on post card, 8.5cm
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If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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Reggie & Viv

14/12/2011

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_Pairs of paintings. The place and the escape.

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Reggie & Viv, 2011, from 'The Hidden Island' series, oil on post card, 8.5cm
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If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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Robert & Jesse

13/12/2011

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Home stretch to the end of the residency then, very sad for me. I will do a big round up at the very end, evaluating what was good, amazing and fantastical about the website but not yet, oh no, I have paintings to post in the mean time...

Pairs of paintings. The place and the escape.
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Robert & Jesse from 'The Hidden Island' series, oil on post card, 8.5cm
_Currently Reading
The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford - by Ron Hansen

Other stuff

The Moss Haired Girls are finished and up on my website. The third edition of The Collector Zine: Moss Haired Girls will appear in January.

So while getting on with these painting pairs I am also starting a whole new series of Works about Robert ford (as depicted in the book/film above). This will be extended out a bit so it's a project that I plan to spend a fair bit of time on and it may cross over onto the Reside blog, well, up until my time on Reside ends anyway, *sobs*.

If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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no light, no light

1/12/2011

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_Paintings from the Hidden Island series, oil on post card, 8.5cm

Currently Reading
The assassination of Jesse James by the coward Robert Ford - by Ron Hansen


If you are interested in being the next artist in residence here at Reside then feel free to have a look at the application information and send your submission via the contact form on this site. The deadline for application is 23 January 2012.
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    Corinna Spencer
    Contemporary artist, mainly painting.

    I am interested in the fragments of stories that can be found in historical images. I make paintings and assemble them to create new stories of mystery, romance and drama. Hinting at the old and more recent. The Nostalgic and romantic.

    The Delicate risqué images of Victorian postcards, the circus, erotic and romantic text: Old photographs and stories, like these, allow our imaginations to tease at the edges of the scene and the long gone strangers depicted.

    I am also currently exploring romantic and erotic texts which is forming the main theme of the work on this blog

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