Thursday 28 February 2013

Exhibition: The Sound of the Life of the Mind



The first artist taking over the walls of SHOP's Arts Space in 2013 (in it's new form, as part of the new SHOP layout), was Bristol-based Brett Atkinson. His wall pieces created in electrical tape attracted lots of people to the space, including a fair few interested in the No More Page 3 campaign, which his largest image was in support of.



Here's what Brett had to say about his work in the exhibition:

“How do I it?” (I’m asking on your behalf – you’re welcome!) I use electrical tape to draw with. I started drawing with electrical tape because when I was preparing for my first ever public exhibition – fourteen years ago – I had no money and I just happened to find some laying around. I still have no money, a theme that I’m pleased to say has stuck, and electrical tape is only 62p a roll (my show cost £2.48 and there’s tape leftover for next time). I make this point because I know people think they don’t have the time or money for creative pursuits. It’s not really about football, but it does feature ’Ka-Powell!’, after it was kindly voted for by people from the football Twitter-sphere - where I exist in an internet sense.

Adding the finishing touches...

 

As part of the new Arts Space arrangement, SHOP also asks exhibiting artists to fill out a short questionnaire.  Here is Brett's:

ARTIST QUESTIONNAIRE

Why is creativity important to you?
There’s a lot of time when I’m not eating and sleeping – why would I want to waste any of it on things that don’t matter?
  
Tell us about your show:
The title is a slightly pretentious way of saying, “some of the stuff of my life”, and is stolen from the lyrics of a song that I’ve been listening to a lot recently, so it fits quite neatly. I draw football things mostly, I hate The Sun newspaper and I love my cat Casey more than she will ever understand.

Where can we find out more about your work?
I’m a football blogger (who isn’t?) and regularly post new pictures on my site www.bifurcated.co.uk
 
'No More Page Three'

'Casey'

'The Sound of the Life of the Mind'

'Casey'

'Ka-Powell'




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