Tictoc

Title: tictoc 2010

Materials: mixed media on khadi paper

'tictoc' originated from a quick angry emotional sketch I made while being 6 months pregnant. I then forgot about it until I started a new sketchbook and I scribbled it on to the pages. It wasn't until I was 5 days overdue I decided to create something using the sketch as the foundation and attempt to reconcile with the feelings I felt at that time in February and mix it with the emotions that were running through me while being overdue. Unfortunately I didn't get to finish it before my baby girl arrived but carried on afterwards still tuning into the feelings and emotions I felt before. The anticipation, the lack of control, the unknown, strange and weird.

Triptych

Purple Series/ Cyfres Piws

These drawings/watercolour paintings are the beginnings of a on-going project I wish to work on and produce through -out the year. Refering back to mediums I used at the very beginning of developing my practice (funnywomen) I'm using these methods again, the loose vibrant watercolours with linear black lines and text. These drawings will be very personal to me, an autobiographical expression of me dealing with loosing my Nain (Grandma) who past away this year in February.

My artwork in the Repeat&Reprise Exhibition

This piece of artwork/sculpture/installation is a new development in my practice. I have been playing with using the idea of labels for two years but this piece is the first finished and exhibited. I have had some mixed response, non-negative which is good but I am hoping to continue in experimenting with this medium and develope my ideas further. Title of the piece was 100,000 and the medium was mixed media (labels, paint, ink and collage).

Repeat & Reprise (2nd Group Exhibition)

Open 5th - 10th February 2010 11am - 7pm

Private view night
Thursday 4th February 7 - 9pm

Painting / Illustration / Photography / Mixed Media / Sculpture / Film

Featuring new artwork by
RICKY ANDERSON / SIMEON BANNER / FELMA BARBO / IAN BROWN / ALICE BROWNE / DARYL CAMPBELL / YING CHEUNG / ROBIN CROUCHER / PETER C. DENMAN / CLAIRE EWIN / MIKE HALL / REBECCA F. HARDY / MIRANDA KAULA / ASANA LLOYD / GEMMA LOWE / DANIEL MACDOUGALL / NEVILLE MAGUIRE / HAI LAM MAN / R. KARL MARKS / THOMASIN MCANULTY / EDWARD MORGAN / GUY OLIVER / ARUN PATEL / RODRIGO PIRES / HANNAH SAPSFORD / MONIKA SMOLINSKA / NOVA WARR

Exhibition curated by Mike Hall with assistance from the artists.

Presenting REPEAT & REPRISE, an ecletic showcase of artwork including painting, illustration, photography, print, mixed media and sculpture, inspired by the subject of repetition. This can be taken as an acknowledgment of the endless series of repeated and recurring patterns of behaviour and events that we all consciously and subconsciously observe and involve ourselves in each day.

All of the participating artists presently work as daytime staff at the National Gallery in London. This is their second independent exhibition, following on from their well-received first show 'In A State Of Flux' in Whitechapel last July (which was curated by Rebecca F. Hardy).

EASTGALLERY
214 Brick Lane
London E1

Tube: Liverpool Street / Aldgate East

www.eastgallery.co.uk

Pieces I've been working and experimenting with over the past 4 months!

It's been far too long, 4 months to exact!!

I haven't written my blog in such a long time, I do have a very good reason aswell! I'm having a baby, a little girl, her due date is May the 6th 2010. Therefore everything kinda went on hold, the realisation of responsability overwhelmed me and I had to sort my life out!

But here we are, the last day of the year and I finally feel like life is slowly going back to normal, allthough I don't quite know what normal is but I feel that the old arty determined fighting Becky is back. Plus I have so much work to do, I have a deadline on the 25th of January, which gives me just over 3 weeks to finish the piece of work I'm creating for a group exhibition in early Febuary 2010. I will post more details and my progress in the next couple of weeks. But it feels good to be driving and pushing myself again in my creativity.

I no longer work in my bedroom, I have a small studio space in the lounge of my flat which I still need to adjust to!! But just happy to have the space to work. The idea of having a independent studio now doesn't seem very realistic but in the future who knows!

Will blog soon with images of work I have been experimenting with and creating over the past 4 months but to be honest there isn't much!! Hopefully 2010 will give me a spurt of creativity and opportunities.

Kepp it real, keep it arty
Becsx