London Through My Eyes
The next in the series of artistic ventures is looming. Next week on 18th Aug to be exact, I am taking part in a group exhibition, with a few folk from work. The Private View is on Wednesday 19th August, come along if you're free.
The show is titled London Through My Eyes and runs from the 18th August to 3rd September at the Putney Arts Centre. I've completed 2 pieces of work, the aim is 3!! Panic hasn't quite set in just yet, as I do have some kind of idea what I'm going to do and the other two are framed and ready to go. It all needs to be hung and displayed by Monday as the exhibition opens on Tuesday, so it will be a case of coming home straight from work and working late into the evening over the next couple of days.
The pieces that I'm working on is a very loose interpretation of the title of the show. I have been working on some more pinholes using the song 'It's a Long Way To Tipperary' This song is so well known both in Ireland and the UK. I remember singing it as a kid. I started to look into the history behind the song and discovered it was written for a bet of 5 shillings by Jack Judge and Harry Williams. If you're interested in finding out more check it out here Having delved further, I discovered it became popular when troops went out to Belgium to fight during WW1. Messines is the smallest town in Belgium and this was completely destroyed in the war. There still remains a craters in this area, one of which is called Peckham Farm.
Now many of you may not know this little fact I am about to share, but I spent 2 years in Belgium and Peckham is close to where I now live in London. So I began to tie it all into the work I was making for the exhibition. Well I thought it was a genius idea anyway, not sure how it will translate on paper....literally!! Here's a sneak preview.
The show is titled London Through My Eyes and runs from the 18th August to 3rd September at the Putney Arts Centre. I've completed 2 pieces of work, the aim is 3!! Panic hasn't quite set in just yet, as I do have some kind of idea what I'm going to do and the other two are framed and ready to go. It all needs to be hung and displayed by Monday as the exhibition opens on Tuesday, so it will be a case of coming home straight from work and working late into the evening over the next couple of days.
The pieces that I'm working on is a very loose interpretation of the title of the show. I have been working on some more pinholes using the song 'It's a Long Way To Tipperary' This song is so well known both in Ireland and the UK. I remember singing it as a kid. I started to look into the history behind the song and discovered it was written for a bet of 5 shillings by Jack Judge and Harry Williams. If you're interested in finding out more check it out here Having delved further, I discovered it became popular when troops went out to Belgium to fight during WW1. Messines is the smallest town in Belgium and this was completely destroyed in the war. There still remains a craters in this area, one of which is called Peckham Farm.
Now many of you may not know this little fact I am about to share, but I spent 2 years in Belgium and Peckham is close to where I now live in London. So I began to tie it all into the work I was making for the exhibition. Well I thought it was a genius idea anyway, not sure how it will translate on paper....literally!! Here's a sneak preview.
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