Tag: text
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Pretty Boys Can Only Say So Much
Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone who has been so supportive of my Indiegogo campaign. Thank you for the contributions, sharing the link and spreading the word. I’ve still got just over 30 days to go! So the idea for this series of drawings, pretty boys kill me, came to me while I was on…
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Pretty Boys Kill Me in Reykjavik, Iceland
This September, I have the amazing opportunity to attend the one month SIM Residency in Reykjavik, Iceland. While I’m there, I will be working on my new drawing project, pretty boys kill me. This series of large scale drawings is entirely done in coloured pencils on paper and so far, I’ve finished one drawing. This is…
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Texting, texting, 1, 2, 3…
I went to a couple of really great artist talks these past two weeks. One was by Damien Moppett, whose show I still have to see at The Rennie Collection, a space I fully encourage everyone to go check out in Vancouver. (You have to book an appointment to go see the exhibitions, but it’s…
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Love Songs – Past & Present
This past year or so, text has started showing up in my work again. During my undergrad, I worked with text in some of my paintings and it was not perhaps the most successful use of text, looking back. I kind of left it out of my practice for a long time, along with installation,…
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The Lady and The Unicorn
Every once in a while, I work on something new and think that I have this great new idea, only to realize that I’ve actually visited the same imagery or theme before. I don’t think this is a bad thing though. It’s pretty interesting actually, looking back at why I first chose that image/theme to…