Shoebox Bedrooms - Your Artwork Seen By The World

On Saturday 14th August 2010, 11-4pm at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, I ran an adult workshop which invited participants to create a room in a shoebox. After a brief background into my practice, my group set to work on their personal creations. I even received a completed shoebox from someone who couldn't participate in the workshop but had made one earlier, which was wonderful! It was an incredibly enjoyable afternoon and hopefully the first of many artist workshops that I will be running in the future.

The photographs of the completed rooms are now in the hands of Dr GR Barker-Read, Head of Academic Quality and Standards at The University of Leeds, who will be recreating each room in Second Life for an online exhibition that the whole whole can visit. A huge thank you to Layla at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery for inviting me to host the event!

'Shoebox Bedrooms - Your Artwork Seen By The World', The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, Saturday 14th August, 11-4pm

I have been kindly invited by Layla at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Galley in Leeds to run my own workshop in the summer, which has recently been featured in The Leeds Guide! My workshop concept was inspired by the Shoebox Art exhibition held at The Haunch of Venison in London a few months ago, which included work by artists such as Damien Hirst, Mark Wallinger and Tracy Emin.

On Saturday 14th August 2010, 11-4pm at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, I am inviting participants to create a room in a shoebox. On completion, each room will be photographed and recreated in a virtual exhibition online in Second Life, where the
whole world can visit, and enter into your creations.

The room could be anything you like - a replica of your childhood bedroom, a room from a dream, one from a mysterious photograph,
or something completely surreal.

Free, but places are limited. To book, please contact hayley@hayleylouisegoodsell.com. Participants must be 16+.

The Watched Cannot See the Watcher

I am totally in love with these drawings by Liverpool based artist James Quin. 'The Watched Cannot see the Watcher' is a preliminary drawing for a series of 300 drawings on found book backs entitled 'Repetition'. Each drawing is made from memory based on the previous drawing, the process repeated 300 times over a nine month period. The process seeks through the act of repetition to uncover 'the multiple readings' of the image and to make visible the subjectivity of memory and the marking of time. The variations/flaws of the image, act as tiny glitches in the attempt to remember.

"In the act of drawing there is a kind of necessary amnesia. One looks at the subject, studies it intently for a few moments, remembers a particular set of relationships for a split second, and transfers that memory of seeing, remembering, forgetting. Repeat. See. Remember. Forget. Erase. See. Remember. Forget. Erase. Alter. Repeat." - Christine Arnold, Walking Dreaming Thinking, A Book of Reflections, 2010.

See more of James here...

I've been very, very bad.

I have shamefully neglected my blog for a little while now. This has been due to being swamped with funding applications for my Masters at Central Saint Martins, planning a big workshop that i'm giving in the summer at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery and various freelance photography bits (I have been really busy, promise!) Frequent posts to follow soon, but in the mean time take a look at this...

Here is a curtain/stained glass window made out of Kodachrome slides by Yarnzombie. The slides date from the 50s and early 60s and are connected together using aluminum chainmail rings. I think it is very beautiful indeed.

Traveling Moleskines

I was invited to take part in the Travelling Moleskine® project launched by Culture Vulture and The Big Draw. A number of these iconic sketch books were unleashed into the world to return to Culture Vulture by the end of September 2009. The project culminated in a fabulous arty party and exhibition in October to help raise funds for the Campaign for Drawing. Here's my contribution, 10 points to the first person who can guess who it is...

Portfolio

Images of my work mounted onto card, lovingly wrapped and branded.

We accept the reality of the world with which we are presented.