Author: susan

I've been looking at neolithic petroglyphs for a number of weeks now. Sites like Knowth and Newgrange, created the need in me to build an environment like the wax labyrinth. Objects like phallic relics, mace-heads and later medieval deities the Sheela-na-Gigs give a sense of...

When the tiny plastic people arrived last week in the post I wanted to revisit the red wax labyrinth model again. In many ways and on many levels, the narrative of this labyrinth has changed. How would the presence of people change the way I see...

Blackboard diagram of 'finishedness' by Bob,Brigitte, Jo, Sally & Susan I (M+C)*(N-VR)-C=F Intention, materials and construction, narrative and view/reflect minus changes = Finishedness For me intention, material and construction are tightly linked. Narrative is something I need to engage with making. View/Reflect is something I do but don't...

Mondrian - Dam & Ocean 1915. All memory of the original subject matter is lost. Miro - Labyrinth 1923. A walk through the mind and imagination. Lithograph using blue, symbolic language. Picasso - Minotauromachy 1935. Full of symbolic content and produced during a period of turmoil in...

The soldier artists that walk ahead of the army. An army with manifestos, social commentary, crossing boundaries, radical subject matter, re-framing compositions and destruction as a weapon. Anti-object, egalitarian and crudely made, never elitist. Unscripted, ad-hoc 'happenings' involving the audience. Activities performed to music, blurring the...