Current: Aesthetic devoid

JULES, PROPERTY OF series, digital photography, 2010

Aesthetics is the taste, intuition, style, moment and consequence - it's the aesthetics that makes us individuals in this practice. For creative development (not just on the grounds of technique) it is an important element for us amatuers and should not be institutionally passified!

Luther Blissett

36mm

Watercolour Sex

Watercolour and Ink on paper, 2011

Copy Cover Readymade

Watercolour on paper, 2011

Ai Wei Wei

Godfather

Boo Ritson, Godfather, Archival Digital Prints, 2006, The Saatchi Gallery

I think I first came across Boo Ritson in Art Review magazine. I am a big fan of her technique, she uses standard household paint and generously decorates her models which she exhibits through photographic portraits. Her process creates a seedy likeness to oil, grease and slime which sparks those connotations as we read her works. Ritson’s means encourages a playful correspondence with identity in the vacuum of American culture. With a surreal poignancy, she ultimately confronts a futility in representation and reality of one self. FUCKING amazing.

John so-slick Stezaker

Image 1: John Stezaker, Pair IV, Collage (2007, Whitechapel Gallery London)

Image 2: John Stezaker, Untitled (Rose), Collage, (1982, Whitechapel Gallery)

Private collection exhibited at Whitechapel until 18th March 2011.

These collages shit all over the my ones below. Massively.

Sketchbook Pages

Feminism. Not a dated term.

Research notes: Janet Wolf: THERE IS NO CORRECT FEMINST AESTHETIC.