Networks I posted a request for gallery space on the Second Life notice board which resulted in a two month residency at Xaraz gallery. This demanded that I develop from zero my 3D building skills in order to prepare work, … Continue reading 3.2 Project 6 – lipgloss and tanks
Dawn (working title) This is the sacrificial painting from sometime in Level 2. I forgot I’d started this post or that I’d somehow failed to keep the chronology of the work. The beginning point is an old collage to which … Continue reading 3.2 Project 4 Body of Work #1 Pink Dawn
Luckily, I have no ambitions to be a photorealist painter! For, me, it’s all about the interpretation; the ‘what’s going on here?’ of the image and the conditions that gave rise to it. The frameworks in this instance were cosmology, … Continue reading 3.2 Body of Work #2 Three Body Problem
The task One of our goals towards the end of this nine year (yes, NINE year) course is to hold an exhibition of our work and in the process, to develop plans and strategies towards locating and negotiating space and … Continue reading Hanging work in a virtual gallery
When the sky redecorates, it does it in private. This was Sussex on the 10th of May 2024. Or it did. The irony, which won’t be lost on people criticised for mediating their world via smart devices, is that this … Continue reading Secret skies
Especially for Second Life viewers, here’s the collection of cat paintings we have ‘littered’ around the Xaraz gallery! Artsteps Working Title gallery – full of cats! https://www.artsteps.com/view/6493359936c60066a300bc29 SCH 2024 All images are made by me and are my copyright. Continue reading Paintings of Cats
A big welcome to Second Life exhibition viewers; thank you for visiting! Here are the landscape paintings you’ll have seen at the Xaraz gallery. The AR (augmented reality) is a little frisky in SL and so I have posted them … Continue reading Landscape paintings with links to the AR video
Note 1: some of the elements referred to are only visible via the Artivive app. Note 2: Re the text boxes, see https://conboyhillarts.com/2023/12/17/stage3-unit-2-site-audience-context/ earlier in this blog where I talk about the way in which labels for art work changed … Continue reading Project 2, 3.2, body of work summary
I started this painting on April 21st and somehow failed to generate my usual running commentary. And nor can I find the reference photograph! I do have an image record though. Thereafter, the painting slipped its mornings and took its … Continue reading Painting the photos #4
When access to physical gallery space is limited, you have to look for other options and there are several, some more based in the real world than others. The first is to use photographs of, for instance, a scene across … Continue reading Exhibition venues
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