IT'S OPEN

So nervous I was. The exhibition opened last night, with so many people going through it wasn't funny! I couldn't find anyone and kept getting talked to, which is good I guess... I'm very shy about these things though, I've never really liked the whole explain and warrant your work... I'd rather just put it up and make the audience or whatever feel something... I don't know! I sold two of the large pieces, which is great, and I think I get to keep the ones I like, which is also good... I think I need to get some framed. I'm always shocked when I see things properly framed... they look so good! 

and I actually completed a hefty body of work! 11+ pieces in all.. after thinking about this for so long... I've got some photos on the way...

'Red Thread' is a continuation of Clinton Hayden's graphic obsession with intimate, unspoken languages that can pierce the skin and bind two people together.

 

Inspired by two lines of fibre he discovered trailing along a fence line - joining in knots every few meters and then separating again – Hayden has created thin, sanguine screams of emotion. Isolated, red-pencilled threads sear out through white gouache on paper.

 

Hayden's works often stand as meditations on time, relationships, memory, and conversations between an intimate two.

 

-AMK 2008

 

"Our lives are now entwined, we will fall yes we're together twining" Patti Smith 'Land'

So now I'm thinking what's next? where will my next show be? what will it be about? considering I've been formulating the last one for about 4 years.... what will i work in next? I think it will be photographs, with a drawing element... maybe I should just get down to it... while hunting for a studio and the next show!

C

A mention on three thousand blog

the exhibition I'm involved in has had some press about it on the threethousand.com.au blog of melbourne goings on...

http://www.threethousand.com.au/archive/2008/january/issue138/

nervous energy

To Sarah Johnson:

"I love you.all that red string stuff started really in manchester you know... one day walking home from the tram to our houses, there was masses of it all down that fence along old trafford and I took millions of pictures of it's journey and started to think about love and conversations... all along a piece of string...I miss you"

I've been working on this lot of drawings for ages now... from that piece of string I found four years ago... all the conversations I had with Sarah made me think about the string as love, as a conversation, as a map of a relationship, sometimes as a map of an argument, or a disagreement (the knots, the separation, the coming back together). I had a little inkling about this work about a year before it was concretized by finding this long mass of red thread stretched across a block of fence line along Old Trafford.

I am getting nervous. It's nerve wracking. A lot of thought has gone into this, a lot of fragments from here and now and then and times ago. And it's not the usual work I've done, not dark pessimistic, overly wrought and dragged out... it's more an investigation into a thought. a line. a block of colour, movement. time. Standing still. Standing with your hand in someone else's pocket, on someone else's shoulder. It's not overly romantic, it's not maudlin. It's strong, sometimes it actually looks like muscles. like blood. sometimes like semen (strange, I never saw it, it had to be pointed out).

It's come in bursts. But it has been constant, ticking over and over in my head... the what-about and how-do- I has come out and been made tangible.

scared of it. scared of the opening. nervous and excited. restless and tired.

red.thread.a.discourse.

Exhibition !!!

Tristan Jalleh

I'm getting pretty excited. This is a flyer from one of the other Artists in the group show I'm involved in.
posting mine soon... just finishing things off...