Made for a live presentation in Second Life on 13th June 2024. Artivive will be updating its platform on the 14th of July. This is their first upgrade since 2017 and it’s hard to imagine it won’t be significant. SCH 2024 Continue reading 3.2 A5 How to Artivive #1- take me to the bridge
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
Somehow there are no earlier shots of this. Maybe because it spent a lot of time wet, runny, bleeding (into other parts of itself) and flat on its back. It’s a small canvas on which I made invisible marks with … Continue reading 3.2 Pillars of Creation
Caught sight of this with the light behind it and it’s an entirely new painting. Daylight, sunlight; new again: There will be an extension next door shortly and a series of small ‘stained glass’ canvases up there might change the … Continue reading 3.2 Project #4 Buttercups
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
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