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Bath Open Art Prize Exhibition 2024

My work Requiem for Oil has been selected for the Bath Open Art Prize Exhibition 2024. There are other pics of work in progress earlier in this blog.

Prize winners will be announced by judges Leonie Bradley and Karen Wallis on Friday 11th October, wish me luck!

The exhibition runs:

10th to 26th October

open 11am-5pm daily

at 44AD artspace, Bath BA1 1NN (this gallery is in the centre of Bath)

bathopenartprize.co.uk

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#BOAP2024

Thank you to organisers Fringe Arts Bath @fringeartsbath and the prize’s supporters for this opportunity: @Wessex_Area @thebellinnbath @studio44ad @minervaartshop

Poster artwork: Andrew Jenner, Sunday in the Park with George @the_dolliverer

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Work in progress

Another in this series of textile pieces, not quite how I intended but almost finished and ready to frame. the contrast around the yellow isn’t as strong as I would like but further stitching over already quite dense and layered fabric and stitch will probably mean more broken sewing machine needles.

work in progress – City Sunrise, 25 x 25cm, mixed textiles, embellished and embroidered

Although most of the fabrics are plain colours I also use white and colour it in-situ, sometimes also colour white thread the same way.

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Oil quilt detail

The Oil quilt consists of four panels made up of about 80 squares of 20 x 20 cm, printed, painted, drawn, embellished, stitched and embroidered in various ways. I’m finding it hard to finish, the desire to add more detail is strong but almost certainly misguided. Better to work on another piece I think.

Oil quilt, detail, approx 70 x 35 cm

This detail is from the upper left of the second panel, it feels topical. The quilt as a whole seems to be a polemic.

Oil quilt detail, approx 70 x 35 cm

This second detail is from same panel, lower right.

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Oil quilt

Oil quilt detail, about 40 x 50 cm

Most of this was complete months ago, just doing borders now. If the text seems topical, October 31st 2023, it’s because the people in charge in the west never stop bombing some poor brown folk somewhere in West Asia, Africa or Central America, or anywhere else they fancy.

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Oil quilt in progress

Oil quilt, detail, 60 x 40 cm

Most of the work for this quilt was complete months ago but current events are spurring me to finish. I’m mainly adding borders at the moment but there will be more work after that, pens and stitch and some discharge paste to remove colour in a few places. It can be hard to know when to stop! The original poem was written long ago, it’s on this site in artist’s book form.

Anti-art was a term adopted by the COBRA group of artists who formed in Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam in 1945, as WW2 in Europe ended, a reaction to the horrors just experienced. Some of their work is at the Cobra Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, well worth a visit if you are in that great city, I found it inspiring. The label anti-art for works that end up in art galleries is a good place to start a discussion about what is art (yawn) because as soon as a gallery is involved or the works are sold then it must become art of some sort. Perhaps if they had kept the work to themselves the group would have been labelled as producers of Art Brut, a form which doesn’t seek public approval or sales, generally.

There is a documentary currently (October 2023) on BBC iPlayer about the Dada movement, closely associated with anti-art.