Tuesday 24 September 2013

Artist Statement Template

After spending years going to various exhibitions and taking sometime to take in what the artist was trying to express through their work by reading the artist statement, when it was present. I think I’ve gotten the basic template down.

Artist Statement

[insert bullshit here]….something, something, Gursky, something, something……..childhood memories…… something, something..... a moment of artistic clarity (a.k.I took an LSD trip at the insistence of my fellow artists/sycophants) and or I just saw what was selling well and jumped on the bandwagon.... something, something.... passionate…something, something.... [insert some esoteric art movement]..... something, something.....Bob Saget.....something,something.....fin.

Often it feels like the statement is just tacked onto the end, to meet the gallery owners/ exhibitors/ curators/ juries request. An afterthought, rather than the core and the beginning point of the work, as it should be.

The only way one can come towards an objective way to judge and critique the work is how well the statement and the work presented are aligned i.e what the artist is trying to show is actually seen. Otherwise one is submerged down into to the murky world of subjectively and sycophancy.   

You have to have something to express before you can express it in a physical form. I guess the argument can be put forward that the art upon viewing, it should speak for itself. That to provide a statement or interpretation is dumbing down the work for the masses, that which to the truly cultured should be self evident. The other question raised is what if someone takes away something different from the work rather than the intended one of the artist has the art lost it’s meaning?       

If you can't be bothered creating your own, then you can always give the mob at Arty Bollocks[link], 500 letters [link], or 10Gallon [link] a call.  

Like I’ve mentioned previously [link] to be classified as art it should stop you, make you think and as a result look at the world differently. Thus you won’t be seeing any of the stuff posted here in MoMA anytime soon. 


Thursday 19 September 2013

For Lease series




































The CBD of Geelong has been in decline for a while, since Westfield [link] completed it's expansion a few years back. Why spend time walking outside to various shops when you can do everything you need to under one roof? The logic is sound and people have voted with their feet. So it's not really surprising the effect it's had on shop fronts, with the CBD looking much like a ghost town. Such is life. 

Note: Yes, I realise I could have gotten rid of the reflections, had I used a polarising filter, but alas I didn't use one. Also should have used a grey card due to the variable light sources with different colour temperatures. Also I didn't bother with HDR or exposure blending my lecturers will no doubt be rolling over in their graves one day, well maybe not on the HDR front. I could put it down to my artist vision coming out just the way I wanted it too but frankly I was just too lazy to go the extra mile, that a commercial photographer would have gone to.        

Monday 16 September 2013

The Man and Woman of Steel series


abstract abstraction art sculpture public art melbourne australia tim macauley the travellers bridge steel nadim karam





abstract abstraction art sculpture public art melbourne australia tim macauley the travellers bridge steel nadim karam


abstract abstraction art sculpture public art melbourne australia tim macauley the travellers bridge steel nadim karam



abstract abstraction art sculpture public art melbourne australia tim macauley the travellers bridge steel nadim karam

abstract abstraction art sculpture public art melbourne australia tim macauley the travellers bridge steel nadim karam



Man, getting all dark, emo and Henson [link] of late but once again a subjet in a light, that you don't often view it. Also getting all meta with my art and that of  Nadim Karam [link] would designed The Travellers sculpture at sandbridge bridge [link] in the CBD of Melbourne. Maybe one day art will be self reproducing art making other art as C3PO [link] would say how perverse.

Note: No hardened steel was mental or physically harmed during the making of this work.    

Remnants of the Sulaco series

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

john meade aqualung abstract abstraction docklands public art tim macauley dark black sclupture detail street melbourne australia

They say that in space nobody can hear you scream. somehow I don't think that is going to stop people.... I have been fasinated by the work of H.G Giger [link] for a long time, since I was a huge fan of all things sci-fi and a big fan of the alien series. John Meade's [link] sculpture entitled Aqualung has that same organic feeling. Located in the Docklands precinct of Melbourne, Australia.