amandasmith-web.com http://amandasmith-web.com Welcome to the Peaty Blog Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:01:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 en Soft and lumpy… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/08/02/soft-and-lumpy/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/08/02/soft-and-lumpy/#comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 08:14:20 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/08/02/soft-and-lumpy/ Reclining Nude by Dorothea Tanning

Reclining Nude

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/08/02/soft-and-lumpy/feed/ Recent work… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/07/29/recent-work/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/07/29/recent-work/#comments Fri, 29 Jul 2011 09:23:22 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/07/29/recent-work/ Click on the images for a detailed view of all recent work |  Bus Stops - 60 cm x 60 cm, collage on hardboard. Bus Stops

Bank - 40 cm x 55 cm, monoprint collage.Bank

                                                                             

Structure I - 40 x 40 cm, digital drawing.

Structure I

Turbines - 50 cm x 50 cm, collage and drawing.

Turbines

Hexagons - 45 cm x 45 cm, digital drawing.

Hexagons

Outside - 4 square metres, a digital plan showing photographs presented inside 4 rubber turf tiles.

Outside

The Floor - 1 square metre, a digital plan showing a drawing cut into sections and presented inside a rubber turf tile.

The Floor

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/07/29/recent-work/feed/ Searching for sounds… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/05/17/non-standard-music/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/05/17/non-standard-music/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 15:14:26 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/05/17/non-standard-music/ I am no musician, but such stunning scores make me wish I were. Cornelius Cardew (7 May 1936 - 13 December 1981) creator of the graphic score Treatise, a composition that was heavily informed by the visual art world of the 1960’s. This brilliant flash animation examines some recurring themes and offers some interpretation. As a non music playing person the notations are lost on me, but the animated guides reveal many universal ideas that we can all relate to.  spacer Treatise title barGraphic score

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/05/17/non-standard-music/feed/ “the Geometric Centre”… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/04/06/the-geometric-centre/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/04/06/the-geometric-centre/#comments Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:03:02 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/04/06/the-geometric-centre/ Sid Waddell couldn’t believe his “gogglin bins” when he witnessed Phil ‘the Power’ Taylor achieve not one, but two nine dart finishes during 2010’s Premier League tournament. There’s loads to love about darts: the design of the board, unpredictable arrows, the elegant rules and superior sportsmanship…oh and Sid Waddell of course.

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/04/06/the-geometric-centre/feed/ A clear mind… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/03/20/clear-mind/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/03/20/clear-mind/#comments Sun, 20 Mar 2011 10:27:43 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/03/20/clear-mind/ …and an open heart. Here Agnes Martin explains why less is more. FriendshipAgnes Martin: Friendship 1963 - Pencil on paper

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/03/20/clear-mind/feed/ Recent work… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/22/current-work/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/22/current-work/#comments Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:30:18 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/22/current-work/ These recent collages combine drawings, monoprints and photographs and are destined to become silkscreen stencils, before being printed onto handmade paper.

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]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/22/current-work/feed/ End of the line… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/17/end-of-the-line/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/17/end-of-the-line/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:48:43 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/17/end-of-the-line/ Dear Mary,
Yes, it will be bliss
To go with you by train to Diss,
Your walking shoes upon your feet;
We’ll meet, my sweet, at Liverpool Street.
That levellers we may be reckoned
Perhaps we’d better travel second;
Or, lest reporters on us burst,
Perhaps we’d better travel first.
Above the chimney-pots we’ll go
Through Stepney, Stratford-atte-Bow
And out to where the Essex marsh
Is filled with houses new and harsh
Till, Witham pass’d, the landscape yields
On left and right to widening fields,
Flint church-towers sparkling in the light,
Black beams and weather-boarding white,
Cricket-bat willows silvery green
And elmy hills with brooks between,
Maltings and saltings, stack and quay
And, somewhere near, the grey North Sea;
Then further gentle undulations
With lonelier and less frequent stations,
Till in the dimmest place of all
The train slows down into a crawl
And stops in silence…..Where is this?
Dear Mary Wilson, this is Diss.

 A Mind’s Jouney To Diss - by John Betjemen

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/17/end-of-the-line/feed/ The overwhelming truth of it?… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/16/the-overwhelming-truth-of-it/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/16/the-overwhelming-truth-of-it/#comments Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:03:01 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/16/the-overwhelming-truth-of-it/ It’s with a little tongue-in-cheekness that I have plonked these clips in the following viewing order. The remarkable Powers of Ten is a reminder that Charles and Ray Eames did more than just design nice chairs, proving as they did that it’s hip to be square. And if all that wonderment gets too much for you, Peggy Lee is on hand to offer a more universe-weary perspective. spacer onlypowers of ten :: charles and ray eames from bacteriasleep on Vimeo.

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/02/16/the-overwhelming-truth-of-it/feed/ A must see… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/01/21/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc-1928/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/01/21/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc-1928/#comments Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:55:16 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/01/21/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc-1928/ If you own a multi region DVD player you can enjoy the original in all it’s expressive glory (it only seems to be available on region 1???). For the rest of us, we will just have to hope that out local Arts Picture house decide to screen it sometime soon. This excerpt features Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light score.Spacer only

]]> http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/01/21/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc-1928/feed/ Lost and found… http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/01/12/lost-and-found/ http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/01/12/lost-and-found/#comments Wed, 12 Jan 2011 19:05:35 +0000 admin http://amandasmith-web.com/2011/01/12/lost-and-found/ Seb Patanespacer1.gifHunstscape mit Grandfather (2009). Courtesy Maureen Paley, London

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