tom johnson : artwork

more words from fellow MadeScapes contributor Trevor Smith: February 15th 2012 It’s hardly news to announce that around 97% of my Facebook friends are not my friends.  A quick skim over the list reveals a collection (three hundred and fourteen of them) of former workmates, distant family members – some of whom I have never met – old college friends, a guy that sold me a pushbike three years ago, and one person whose friend request I accidentally accepted.  I addressed the accidental ‘friending’ via private message; her response was that her initial friend request was also an accident.  In a relationship it would make a great ‘first time we met’ story, but based on her status updates and her comments on other people’s status updates, we appear to be utterly incompatible, and now I am afraid to delete her because, despite my former assertions to the contrary, Facebook is the real world, and our mutual friends may swing to her favour, should I choose to proceed with th...

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17:30 - 20:30 Milsom Place, Milsom Street, Bath

A couple of weeks ago there was a great show at Bristol Diving School  by Robert Prideaux and Ruaidhri Ryan . The work mostly consisted of a large video installation, rather than having a stab at some inadequite wordliness.. there was an pretty interesting accompanying text by bristol based sculptor Charles Thorburn : poster design by Lloyd Parker The nature of the gaze is not a simple one. The world of moving image has developed countless methods of enticing us to fix ours for a few moments; to be informed, compelled, or entertained. In Circumstances of Avertion Robert Prideaux & Ruaidhri Ryan address the act of averting ones gaze, and how this is handled as a fundamental component of our experience of film and documentary. We are often presented with documentary, and moments in cinema, that we are conditioned to accept as truth. David Attenborough doesn't just tell us what life is really like in the jungle, he shows us. Rather than setting out to interrogate their ...

back in march last year me and will kendrick  went over to oxford to help out a friend of ours and fellow bath spa graduate  lewk wilmshurst  with the installation of his first solo show.. the show took place at Freud on walton street. a rather challenging install not only due to the dsetinct lack of manpower but Freud is beautiful and interesting but also structurally quite awkward to hang work in effectively. we rose to the challenge and learned a great deal in the process, lessons which have proved useful in subsequent installations. poster design by Garry Edison Cook the main piece (from which the show took its title) is a triptych of the three works, ‘Mutual’, ‘Coordinate’ and ‘Science’ and as a piece discuss’ our relationship with the natural world. ‘Mutual‘   Mutual is a light box with an image of an orang-utan routed into the Perspex. As you inspect the work, The Orang-utan reciprocates your inte...