This weekend I had the pleasure of assisting Leeds-based artist Joe Mawson in a day long workshop at The Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery in Leeds. Joe's practice involves him recreating disaster imagery from news archives in the form of a small scale models and then photographing them, so for the workshop he invited visitors to learn how to create their own youtube videos based on a constructed model.
The 'disaster' that we chose was the Susan Boyle audition footage from Britain's Got Talent, mainly due to the unbelievable press coverage that it has received. (This has a whole meaning now as today it was reported that he has checked into rehab following some kind of breakdown.) We spent a good few hours constructing and filming stages, aswell as a whole host of cardboard characters in the form of Simon Cowell, Ant and Dec and of course Miss Boyle. I was in charge of making a cardboard Amanda Holden, which wasn't too difficult as she only has two facial expressions. Check out some of the photos from the day, Youtube video coming soon!
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