Saturday 28 May 2011

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 36)

Here’s the 36th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.


The character in this drawing is called Jellyscuttle and is a copy of one of the quick-fire drawings that I made as part of my pre-bed time drawing routine. I also reproduced the drawing in one of the postcards that I created for the 2010 RCA Secret show.

Thursday 26 May 2011

New Model Kit Sculpture Design

I’m currently working on some designs for a new series of wall-mounted low relief sculptures. Like my And When I’m a Man piece (which was made from 12 casts of my own body), these new works will be based upon the pre-assembled Airfix-style model kits that many of us used to make when we were kids – except that these new ones will be much smaller than my original life-sized one. For this project I will be working in collaboration with the on-line arts magazine, FAD and the California-base industrial designer, Noel Wilson.


And like my second model kit based sculpture, Baby Kit, which subverted the whole point of the model kit (as in that the sum of all its parts didn’t actually make a whole), the new series aims to do this a little more subtly by substituting just one element with something from an unrelated figure. In the case of this working drawing the right leg has been replaced with that Daffy Duck. In another design I have substituted the left arm with that of an octopus tentacle. That design, along with one based upon Leonardo da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man drawing can be seen on my other blog.

Scanner Girl

Monday 23 May 2011

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 35)

Here’s the 35th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.


The drawing is based a doodle that I made a year or so ago when I was stuck on a long coach journey travelling back up to Shropshire to visit family. There’s probably something deeply Freudian going on in this picture.

The Real Mr Potato Head

Tuesday 17 May 2011

Pug Slug

Out of all of my quick-fire drawings this has got to be one of the fastest that I’ve drawn so far. At the time I hadn’t got a clue what I was drawing and I’m still not sure what it is. But I do know that it’s one of my favourites.


Monday 16 May 2011

Fallen Orifice Box





This thumbnail sketch is of an idea I had for another one of my orifice/wheeled box sculptures. If I do get round to making it then it will be the first of my sculptures on wheels not to be on its wheels.

Sunday 15 May 2011

More Late Night Doodles

As a kid I used to hate using felt tipped pens (I’ve never been a big fan of garish or bright colours) but I’ve recently started to come round to them – especially the ones with the rigid, brush-like tips. They work well on shiny paper and are a lot of fun to work with when I’m doing my quick-fire drawings.


I call this doodle, Entrails Orb. It emerged from me really being in the mood to sketch but not being able to think of anything the draw. So I just moved the pen around the page until a shape appeared.


This one is called Alien Pope. I hate and like it in equal measure. Actually that’s not true – I mostly hate this drawing. I think it’s almost totally rubbish but there are a few marks in there somewhere that I like so that’s why I’ve shown it. Suppose I gotta show the good and the bad.

Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project (Page 34)

Here’s the 34th page of my forty page contribution to the Art House Co-op Sketchbook Project that is currently touring various galleries and museums around the US.


This one is a re-drawing of an earlier thumb-nail sketch of an idea I had for a small sculptural piece that was inspired by one of my wheeled tower structures, The City.