peter missen end of semester 1 state of play
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A chit chat to my fellow artist cohort on how the first semester has gone...TRANSCRIPT
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Peter Missen
End of Semester 1 - state of play
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Me
Name: Peter Missen
Star sign: Leo
Nationality: British
Favourite artist: Patrick Caulfield
e-mail: [email protected]
LinkedIn: Peter Missen
Facebook: Peter Missen
Twitter: missenp
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Artist’s statementI am a life long learner having enjoyed a great variety of evening courses since completing
vocational education, mostly “O levels” and “A levels”.
“A level” art was a particular favourite under the watchful eye of local artist Gill Hawkins way back in 1998. Gill’s art course included many day-trips to London to visit art exhibitions,
which inspired me to paint. Among the exhibition visits Piet Mondrian and Patrick Caulfield were particularly appealing styles to me, as were Triptychs.
Since the “A level” art course I have been collecting paints and canvases for my retirement. And I’ve kept in touch with Gillian, visiting exhibitions and open studios when I can.
Following a pension crisis after a 21+ year career, I took early retirement from the IBM Software Development Laboratory in March 2010. Some 10 years earlier than planned!
The trauma of the pension crisis meant a change of style to a “throw the paint at the canvas” style, in order to release the pent up anger that the pension crisis and enforced early
retirement caused. This was the root of the “A Splash of Colour” exhibition.
Painting portraits is something I’d really like to be able to do, once the inner anger has sufficiently subsided. I am not a betting person but It could take a while!
MA Fine Art course has opened my eyes to lots of new stuff – the world is my lobster…
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Some words/art things/terms I have been exposed to (no particular order)
reifying, workshop cuts, praxis, acme, found objects, narratology, collections, xenia,
ceramics, Dadaism, Action Painting, the other Francis Bacon, rhopography, haptic, YBAs,
ontology, Fauvism, Conceptual Art, deconstruction, Pugwash, Instructional art,
Performance art, semiotics, tachisme, situationalists, slumping, vanitas, public works of art, commodity fetishism, mass observation, gallery commission, Spanish still life, austerity, Saatchi online, protesting (SORT IT OUT), ...
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Some artists I have been exposed to (no particular order)
Jackson Pollock, Barbara Kruger, Pete Codling, Francis Bacon, Mark McGowan, Carey Young, Labrador, Anne Vallayer-
Coster, Caravaggio, Cezanne, Diego Velazquez, Chardin, Francisco de Zurbaran, Jan Steen, Joachim Beuckelaer, Juan Gris,
Juan Sanchez Cotan, Pieter Aertsen, Trimalchio, Willem Kalf
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Happenings during the courseFacebook usageSeminar groups
InductionsCeramics/glass workshop/Protest against the cuts
3D workshopPrint workshop
Light photosFound objects – Aluminium cans
Atkinson Gallery exhibitionBeach collecting
Peter’s participation projectsExtra lectures
Visits
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Facebook usageUsing Facebook to document progress
Created a groupMA Fine Art 2011-2013
10 members so far
Created lots of photo albums
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Some Facebook photo albumsLight experiments
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150347338554556.365791.697879555&type=1&l=d6dd6a0ea6https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150354042884556.367055.697879555&type=1&l=56ff5ed989https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150356482004556.367586.697879555&type=1&l=0842b9ff50https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150357918079556.367901.697879555&type=1&l=5d9bf15af7https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150435785174556.379900.697879555&type=1&l=6637da6a6a
Textureshttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150345661604556.365420.697879555&type=1&l=c7b30e09ce
Canshttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150337633464556.363827.697879555&type=1&l=dbf2238286https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150295445379556.354704.697879555&type=1&l=a4aff77e46
Workshopshttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150370893629556.370452.697879555&type=1&l=bfc2ed1908
Participation projectshttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150349747224556.366257.697879555&type=1&l=efbd41c122https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150434591344556.379767.697879555&type=1&l=5470d47705
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Seminar groupsI did not really fit into any of the six groups
I am ostensibly an “Action Painter”
(though I did not know the term)
Group 3 was the lesser of all the evils!
“The Individual and the Social, Art and Society,
Art and Politics.”
Did some research into Guy Debord’s “The Society of the Spectacle” – an awesome read…
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InductionsClay
Glass3D workshop
PrintingLibrary
Need to do:Small metalsPhotographyLaser cutter
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Ceramics/Glass workshopBeen playing with glass and ceramics
SlumpingGlazing
Gutted the workshop is closingJoined the demonstration
Banner was “SORT IT OUT”Made the Pugwash front page 3 times
Disappointed they don’t have a glass blow torch as I wanted to make some glasswork.
And Eldon is not open 24/7 which is dreadful
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3D workshopDid the induction
Made some stuffa palette
a gallows
a Mega Magnet holder
Got a bit of laser cutter use
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Print workshopDid the induction
Offset litho machine very excitingWill have a bash next year
I meter sized posters
Limited edition action painting prints
Will bash out loads
Have got a huge roll of printing card to use
Found a big guillotine in the photography area
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Light Photos
Experiments at the seafront
Several mornings and evenings
Action painting with light
Loads of pictures on Facebook
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Light PhotosLight experiments
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150347338554556.365791.697879555&type=1&l=d6dd6a0ea6
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150354042884556.367055.697879555&type=1&l=56ff5ed989
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150356482004556.367586.697879555&type=1&l=0842b9ff50
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150357918079556.367901.697879555&type=1&l=5d9bf15af7
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150435785174556.379900.697879555&type=1&l=6637da6a6a
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Aluminium Cans
Been collecting aluminium cansFrom the road
Most of these are flat (Road kill!) Why did the hedgehog cross the road?
From the beachSigns of wear/degradation
From the Common/Castle FieldsUsually whole and unblemished
Some even unopened!
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Cans PhotosFacebook albums
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150250259674556.340451.697879555&type=1&l=50c9c25e13
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150337633464556.363827.697879555&type=1&l=dbf2238286
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150295445379556.354704.697879555&type=1&l=a4aff77e46
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Atkinson Gallery exhibitionEntered 4 pieces aligned with my seminar group
Having a dig at the French flag (Politics)Tricolor Triptych
French flag – adorned with England jewellery
Ceramics on woodBlue, white, and red mince pies on a cheese board (fromage)
Aluminium cans on TarmacAll flattened by cars on the road
Blue - Fosters, White - Red stripe, Red – CokeAustralia – Jamaica – USA
Hanging French PunkChampagne corks, wood, string, plastic
Gallows glue was still wet on the last day for entries
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Atkinson Gallery exhibition• Selecting names for the pieces of art
– Lots of thought!!!– Two levels of indirection
• (Start with a word/phrase, engineer a numeric link, then apply several mathematical operations to get a number)
• I used “Overt obfuscation” then the number
– Tricolor Triptych “Overt obfuscation 0.0029850746”
– Ceramics on wood ”Overt obfuscation 0.0017667845”
– Aluminium cans on Tarmac “Overt obfuscation 0.0024145617”
– Hanging French Punk “Overt obfuscation 0.0015568666”
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Atkinson Gallery exhibition - photos
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Atkinson Gallery exhibition - photos
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Atkinson Gallery exhibition - photos
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Atkinson Gallery exhibition - photos
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Atkinson Gallery exhibition - letter
Got the same reject letter as others on the
course
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Beach collecting Found objects
Aluminium cans1,000,000 Pebbles (By Pete Codling)
WoodFlotsam and Jetsam
PlansCatch of the day
cans – classified (size, colour, type of drink)logs – charred old logs in new bag
Beach still life assemblage (emulating Spanish)Classifying pebbles (number, colour, shape)
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Peter’s participation projects
Things in the MA space for all to contribute toBlank White Canvas
Filing cabinet “PAiNT ME”
NO RULES
Dump your unwanted paint etc. on them
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Participation projects - Canvas
Blank White Canvas in the MA space
I’ll put a new blank out when I decide it’s done
Will aim to produce triptychs
Different colour backgrounds to follow…
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Participation canvas progress
Facebook albumhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150349747224556.366257.697879555&type=1&l=efbd41c122
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Participation cabinet progress
Facebook albumhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150434591344556.379767.697879555&type=1&l=5470d47705
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Extra lectures attendedDigital Design Media
Research methodsMichelle Anne
Simone
Aspex – Emergency 5 feedbackhttps://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150272636804556.347708.697879555&type=1&l=5f729bccd9
Spanish still life lectureCurrently reading “Looking at the Overlooked”
Four Essays on Still Life Painting by Norman Bryson
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Visits - since the course began• gASP
– Come together– Steve Chivalry (graduate prize)– Entre chien et loup – Dominique– Is Britain Great? 3
• gASP@ The Guildhall
• Aspex– Emergency 5– Dominique
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More Visits • Bournemouth
– Russell Cotes– The ArtHouse– The Library
• Portsmouth– Above the Blue (Port Solent)– gASP (Brougham Road)– Aspex (Gunwharf)– Southsea Gallery (Albert Road)– Central Library (Guildhall Square)– Southsea Library (Palmerston Road)– Guildhall (Guildhall Square)
• London– KPMG building (Canary wharf)
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Private View Visits • gASP – lots!• Portsmouth Central Library - several• Guildhall
– gASP@Guildhall
• Southsea Library– 9 lives of a cat – Anna Edwards
• Bournemouth– ArtHouse - “White Winter” inc Henry Moore work
• Eldon– Modern Vanitas - Tyran Hawthorn
– Farewell to SPACE - Pete Codling
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Trips abroad
New YorkSigned up for the trip
Cancelled due to lack of interest, grrrrrrrrrrrrrr
BerlinSigned up for the trip in January
Huge list of things to see from my A level Art teacher
Not yet confirmed I have a place
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What about the future? • Lots more experiments
– Ceramics and glass while we can
• Need to have a go in the Printing space– Next year as it will still be there!
• Keeping an eye on “commercial” aspects– Paintings/Installations?– Gallery space/Studio space?– Grants/any cash available?
– I have a 90 minute session with the Cibas Director on Thursday
(Creative industries business advice and skills development service)
http://www.port.ac.uk/research/cibas/
• MA Project – nothing concrete yet– Too many ideas!
• I need an “effing” big space to instantiate all my ideas– My attic is 9m x 5m so could be in the firing line for some action…
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That’s all folks…
Any questions?
Thoughts?
Comments?
Feedback?
Advice?