Author: georginaharrisart

Checking In

So hi. It’s been a while since I wrote about how things are going in the studio. This, writing on here, is an integral part of my studio practice, is something I don’t what to let slip away. Thinking through writing = important! Since I last checked in, I’ve finished two new paintings, they are:…… Continue reading Checking In

Artist: Jakob Kudsk Steensen with Serpentine Gallery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx_9suUViKk Incredible sound scapes from Hyde Park, London. They sound so alien, so sci-fi, and yet as I was watching it I kept reminding myself that these sounds are part of this ‘normal’ world. “Steensen’s conception of ‘slow media’” is very interesting. His work is wonderful and does something, it makes me think of the…… Continue reading Artist: Jakob Kudsk Steensen with Serpentine Gallery

Reading Amy Sillman’s Frieze interview Philosophy of Doubt

https://www.frieze.com/article/amy-sillmans-philosophy-of-doubt?utm_source=FRIEZE&utm_campaign=5f69f6d5a6-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2021_02_24_02_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_f0ebe20dcf-5f69f6d5a6-208273102 She has developed a pragmatic philosophy of painting that mobilizes doubt, treating mark-making not as a grand testament to an artist’s skill but as an invitation for us to follow and think alongside her. The curator Helen Molesworth has deemed Sillman’s approach to painting as exemplary of a virtuous ‘unknowability’ and describes this as…… Continue reading Reading Amy Sillman’s Frieze interview Philosophy of Doubt

Reading Gordon Dalton’s interview for Contemporary British Painting

https://www.contemporarybritishpainting.com/gordon-dalton-artist-of-the-month/ The motifs are a kind of shorthand or wonky grammar, trying to hold together a lot of improvisation, coincidence, chance and mistakes. ^ Painting as language. I love that. I was thinking about that as well back in January. That visual motifs are like your vocabulary, that’s what I was thinking. I love the…… Continue reading Reading Gordon Dalton’s interview for Contemporary British Painting

Frieze article: What Makes Artist-Run Spaces Flourish

https://www.frieze.com/article/what-makes-artist-run-spaces-flourish experimentation always happens when there’s no market, there’s a recession or a war. it’s during these low points in socio-economic history that our culture really leaps forward. to paraphrase Lee Lozano, the easiest discipline is the best. I was also interested in engaging with a community that is not about the market, but about…… Continue reading Frieze article: What Makes Artist-Run Spaces Flourish

My Group Crit Transcript w GAP Studio 2/2/21

Italic writing: Notes in writing this transcript (post-crit). Travelling through the landscape is a myth, embedded in the landscape. G: I’m realising my work is actually about that. Because I’ve always been quite obsessed with how the landscape can hold meaning from the past in it. Like when I used to paint those church shapes…… Continue reading My Group Crit Transcript w GAP Studio 2/2/21

Maps – initial research

Is this the ‘human world’? [Referring to the artwork by Adolf Wölfi] The more permissive response would be, yes, as the human mind and our perception of the world is of as much importance as the tangible. What Wölfli created, was to him, ‘Fact’.Are all maps intended to help the viewer or is their very…… Continue reading Maps – initial research

Finishing painting no.8

Fustrating. I basically just painted a whole new painting on top. Except it couldn’t become a whole new painting because the other painting was underneath and I was trying to finish that one. Messy. I can understand this struggle using the concept I posed in note, brief form in this blog post I wrote yesterday.…… Continue reading Finishing painting no.8