MERRY CHRISTMAS

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Why so serious?

Just found this on the internets.

Amazing Book Collection

Rob Ryan makes some proper nice paper cuts and I was just browsing and found out he collects ladybird books and he has a brilliant collection. Check it out! He had shelfs built especially to accommodate!
Rob Ryan

THESE R UR PINK BITS 2010

new painting!
acrylic,image maker on canvas
approx : 39" x 59"

Recommended films

It's been all action in the last few days,I've spotted Alec Baldwin in the saatchi gallery,i saw Mark Kermode and Jason Isaac at the bbc 5 live radio thingy and I've come home and spotted three people I know,one of which was my old art teacher. Inspired by Mark Kermode I thought I'd post 3 films that I have watched recently and really enjoyed and recommend them.

(all were suggested to me by my sexy boyfriend)
(all factual info from imdb)

Rope (1948)
Director : Alfred Hitchcock
This film is full of suspense and James Stewart is look as fine as ever in it.
Trailer

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Away we go (2009)
Director : Sam Mendes
Strangely sexy main guy character with an overgrown beard and his girlfriend who is pregnant. This film is so sweet,with loads of weirdo characters in it,really good! This film also has a lovely soundtrack.
Trailer

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An American Were Wolf in London(1981)
Director : John Landis
I didn't want to watch this film for aaaages because I didn't even realise what it would be about. I was imagining it to be boring but it's amazing! The director combines the background noise of a porno movie to people suggesting ways in which the main character should kill himself. I also loved the stereotypical northerners and the fact that every song in the film had the word 'moon' in its title.
Trailer

Karl Pilkington

I absolutely love this guy,he makes me laugh soooo much.

Found the most amazing video

I'm not even sure what this is about or what it's promoting but radomnly stumbled upon it on youtube and it has made my night. It has all my favourite minor celebrities in it. Enjoy.

best friends

Untitled 2010

I will title this piece soon. It's a 3-D collage with a bit of role reversal and humour thrown in. There is a framed quality to the piece and the objects interact with each other nicely. I am happy with the piece of the overall response to it. I was aprehensive as this is the first piece i have shown which is not a painting,but I got positive reactions and a lot of good feedback in my seminar this morning. I have now got to grips with the idea that I am an image maker and I am excited about what I'm going to make this year!

new stuff from the world of kathryn's sketchbook

yep,this is me

The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris

'Under normal conditions,in their natural habitats, wild animals do not mutilate themselves,masturbate, attack their offspring, develop stomach ulcers, become fetishists, suffer from obesity, form homosexual pair-bonds, or commit murder. Among human city-dwellers, needless to say, all of these things occur. Does this,then, reveal a basic difference between the human species and other animals? At first glance it seems to do so. But this is deceptive. Other animals do behave in these ways under certain circumstances,namely when they are confined in the unnatural conditions of captivity. The zoo animal in a cage exhibits all these abnormalities that we know so well from our human companions. Clearly, then, the city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo.'

arty farty

My work has totally taken a turn for 3-D. I am blown away by how much I have enjoyed using paper mache and paper to make things. Both the woman and the fish seen below are made using paper mache,the difference being that the fish was made from scratch and I used a doll as a base for the woman but completely changed the way her limbs were moving. There will be a fish tank with suspending people inside and the fish will be sat in some kind of armchair in a set up living room. It's kind of an installation-y piece. Originally,both models were going to be quite small but I knew the first thing the tutors were going to say is "have you thought about making it bigger?". Maybe I'm just cynical,but it seems to be the main piece of advice that they dish out in crits and seminars.

There is a kind of meaning and intention behind this work but I want people to work it out for themselves. I can't wait to set it all up. It's well fun!

This is Pablo the fish with a cup of tea and unfinished cardboard glasses,he is yet to have his pipe or armchair.

and here's my woman. She has no name and she is now painted with fully fledged boobies and a nicer face. She is yet to be suspended in a fish tank.

Once it's all been set up,i'm going to take piccies and put em on zee blog.

Exciting stuff!

The Social Network

Went to see the previews of this film on wednesday,it went further than my expectations and I really enjoyed it. The music was brilliant. Even if you don't like facebook or have a facebook account it is still a worthwhile film because of the interesting storyline between mark zuckerberg (the creator of facebook) and everyone else who's trying to sue him for stealing their idea. I found it ironic that whilst watching the film my phone frequently buzzed (on silent of course) whenever I had a facebook message. Definitely a must see!

The Museum of Everything

If you haven't checked it out already,you should definitely get up to 'the museum of everything' in chalk farm near camden. The name is kind of self explanatory but their collection is anything but obvious. Their third exhibition has just opened and it is just as interesting and eccentric as the first. This particular exhibit was curated by Peter Blake and is essentially a platform where he can share his funny ,unusual and strangley endearing collections of various items with the world. The exhibition ranges from old painted cloth for circus shows,to match boxes,shell animals,dwarf postcards,strange mechanical machines and of course the Walter Potter collection,which was beautiful. Only two pieces of the potter works are owned by Peter Blake and the rest have been borrowed from various people all over the world so as to recreate the Potter Collection which used to be situated in Brighton.

The best bit of the whole day and maybe the thing that excited me the most was going to the Peter Blake talk. He spoke with Polly Morgan and Errol Fuller about the anthropormorphic taxidermist Walter Potter and the meaning and signifance behind his work. It was lovely to be involved in an intimate setting where you could ask Peter Blake questions and listen to the debate. The talk really helped me to grasp my own understanding of the exhibition and I'm so excited I got to see Peter Blake in the flesh. He looks just like my grandad!

"the kittens wedding" Walter Potter

Screenprint

This is my screenprint. The first one! There is another set with slightly different colours which I think looks better. I shall upload soon.

Online portfolio

Here is a link to my online portfolio:

I'm also working on a set of screen-prints at the moment which I will post soon. Since I've started uni,it's all been a bit hectic,so bare with me on the posting front. I hope to get posting regularly again pronto.

Jan Svankmajer

Nobrow and Celebration

So,Adrian and I went wandering around shoreditch last night for a couple of hours with the intention of going to the Nobrow private view. The artist exhibiting -Brecht Vandenbroucke made some really beautiful paintings in the show. I didn't get to take any pictures but here's some i've snagged off the Nobrow site and various other places.

When we left the private view,it was onto another exhibition in 'City,arts & music project' where there was some interesting posters all over the walls and some stuff to pick up and put in the old research log. Turned out to be a pleasant evening. Tomorrow-more exhibitions,just need to figure out which ones!

Kathryn's Sketchbook & animation

I've finally sent my entry to this years graphic novel competition. I'll post it up here a bit later on but overall I'm happy with it. In other news,here are some character ideas I had for the comic from my sketchbook. Also,i'm posting a film that Adrian and I made together. We made it in the early hours of the morning.

& Video

Squash from Adrian Curcher on Vimeo.

Kathryn's Sketchbook

Here are a few drawings from my sketchbook. Tried to do a little comic,their just doodles. I thought i'd do drawing with a thick line and smaller thin lines for the detail because I see it a lot in comic books and i've seen a lot of artwork like it today. Just having a bit of a play. For some reason I always have to draw boobs in my sketches? weird.

the end.

Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little World

After seeing "Scott Pilgrim v.s the world" in the cinema,playing the Scott Pilgrim arcade game on the playstation and hearing my boyfriend talking about how amazing the Scott Pilgrim comic books are,I thought I'd treat myself to the first four books by Bryan Lee O'Malley. I'm hoping that by the time I get to four,I'll have enough money to buy the last two.

This is my 100th post.

I'm currently back home in the north and that means two weeks off work. I'm here visiting my family and we've done a lot of things in the week I've been here. Adrian came along too. He took most of the photos I'm putting up here.

We took the dog for a walk in the farmland around my house.It was my 20th Birthday so we went for a meal.

One day, I did a lot of gambling in Saltburn slot machines. I wish I knew the guy in the background of the photo.

Adrian took some family shots at the beach and at the priory,obvs.

We also went to York but didn't take many pictures there.
Oh,and we went and visited Mima in Middlesbrough for a bit of the cultural experience.

Adrian is blown away by the culture in the photograph above.
The main exhibition on there at the moment is Bonnie Camplin.

So overall,a nice little week spent here. Back to London in a few days time so I can show my brother the sights of London and the lovelyness of our home. mmm

Kathryn's Sketchbook

I got a moleskine the other day for the first time and this is one of the first doodles I've done in it.I bought some knitting patterns the other day and used them as references when I was drawing these people. I ended up turning them into ridiculous superheros but I was happy with it in the end. Might even do a comic about them. Never know. They're my brother's fingers holding open the book,for anyone that is interested.

Kathryn's Sketchbook

Uploading a few pages from my sketchbook again. Just quick little drawings to have a look at.doodles from 'adventure time' best cartoon ever!

(with jake the dog and finn the human,the fun just never ends!)

Andy Rementer

I like this image by Andy Rementer . Website here.

I love Adventure time.

Kathryn's Sketchbook

A little drawing I done.
I haven't given her a name yet.
"That's horrifying"

Victo Ngai

Love this. By Victo Ngai

Eleanor Davis

If only this is what happened when you got your period.
Would be a lot harder to conceal though.


This is Eleanor Davis' work,found out about her through an interview in the summer 2007 issue of MOME.

Beckii - Schoolgirl Superstar

Surprisingly interesting documentary that I watched on bbc three the other day. Wasn't about pregnant girls or deformed puppies. It had quite a negative undertone but it was fun to watch all the japanese dancing.

Morning

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MORNING

I want to see 'Rude Britannia' so badly. I've really got into comic books recently. Probably not as much as I should but I'm just starting out in my comic book interest. I've just started writing and drawing my graphic novel entry for the observers competition. I'm not going to post it up here for ages but I'm really enjoying making it. It's been nice to set myself a brief over the summer because I'm missing unversity a lot. I watched this little video on the tate britain website and thought it looked really interesting. I want to paint on walls!

Best Coast

My current favourite album: