'Art Against Apathy' Final Piece

At the Exeter College Summer Show, Centre for the Creative Industries (CCI), 22nd - 30th June 2011.

Do Not Look at the Flash (2011). Eco-washable Artmix paint, bleach, black acrylic, white emulsion, Letraset, collage, black ink, charcoal, chalk, felt-tip pen. 

You Will Not Be Protected Until They Have Been Blocked Up (2011). Eco-washable Artmix paint, bleach, wrapping paper, Letraset, collage, black ink, charcoal, chalk, felt-tip pen.

Guard Against Flying Glass (2011). Eco-washable Artmix paint, bleach, black ink, charcoal, chalk, collage, Letraset.

Off-season

I've found a renewed love for my home town this week, so I thought I'd put up these photos I took back in November. I live in a seaside town that hasn't progressed much since Victorian times. It's pretty boring, there's virtually nothing to do if you're a teenager except get drunk under the pier and the biggest news story on an average week is controversy over pasties. That said, I've lived here all my life and I kind of love it. These were all taken with a manual camera which says "Made in the USSR" on it, cuz I'm all retro and indie like that.

Some drawings I've done recently

'Storm in a teacup' pencil sketch.

Tattoo design for Adam.

Possible tattoo design for Matt. A little rough.

Ruth sketch.

My (Instant) Artist Statement

My work explores the relationship between new class identities and skateboard ethics.
With influences as diverse as Kierkegaard and Roy Lichtenstein, new tensions are generated from both simple and complex layers.
Ever since I was a child I have been fascinated by the theoretical limits of the human condition. What starts out as vision soon becomes corrupted into a tragedy of power, leaving only a sense of decadence and the chance of a new reality.
As spatial forms become transformed through diligent and critical practice, the viewer is left with a glimpse of the possibilities of our condition.

I really mean it.


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Jesse Draxler

Draxler, J. Burnt Hair.

Draxler, J. Methadont.

I'm so fucking into this.
Also I swear a lot when I'm enthusiastic.

http://www.jessedraxler.com/

Stuff I've been up to lately

My work space at college. I <3 my corner, but I've recently migrated to the corridor/graphics room for more space.

Experimental silhouettes.

Atomic shadow 1 so far.

Atomic shadow 2 so far (detail).

3 - started this one today, just improvising. Not sure it'll survive, definitely needs more work.

Atomic shadow 3 (detail).

 These all need a fair bit more work, but I'm feeling pretty good about how it's going so far.

I've suddenly realised...

...that I love watercolours. I've never been able to get my head around acrylics or oils so I hardly ever paint, but damn, I love how watercolours look.

These are my eyes, by the way. It's an experiment as part of a project, I'm not just really vain.

And then I was reminded how much I also love Marlene Dumas. Her work is so ghostly and simple.

Dumas, M. Barbie (with a pearl necklace) 1995. Watercolour on paper. <http://asheard.com/?p=978#more-978>