Strand 3

Painting: in relation to contextualising the city as a ‘Collage’
with Gary Simmonds & Andy Jackson
This strand will exploring contextualising the city as a ‘Collage’ in relation to Painting,
through four sessions.
You are invited to attend all four sessions

1. Friday 9th February 2024: The first session will consist of a guided walk in the city of Sheffield where
   Andy will identify source sites for his paintings. This will be followed by a visit to Andy’s studio to explore
   methods of translating source material into a painting intended for interior or exterior exhibition. The
   reading for this week will be Chapter 6 from Peter Osborne’s Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of
   Contemporary Art which will be provided as a handout at the end of this session.
2. Thursday 22nd February 2024: The second session will analyse Osborne’s text in relation to the artists
   mentioned in this chapter and introduce these artist’s response to the city in the form of a half hour
   slide presentation. We will then take a walk in the city to look through the ‘lens’ of these artists and
   make comparisons to sites in Sheffield. The session will conclude with a tour of the facilities of the HPO
   to identify how the contemporary artists from the slide presentation achieve their works and think
   about your own personal practice.
3. Thursday 7th March 2024: The third session myself and Gary will provide tutorials to think about the
   piece you are working on in response to session 1 and 2.
4. Thursday 21st March 2024: The final session will involve the presentation of your artwork in the city.
   This is your responsibility to lead us as a group to your artwork. Here we will discuss the artwork as a
   seminar/crit group.

As a response to presenting my work in a public space I opted for a advert I did a screenshot during the pandemic of City Sauna prices.
The girls have been lateral flow tested which just seems insane that during a time when wearing a face mask was mandatory people could frequent this type of establishment and contact.
There are reviews left from punters who have rated the experience.
There is a paragraph written by myself to give this context of how everything is commodified and sold even the most intimate of sexual experiences.

The place I chose was a site for flyposting in the underpass next to the O2 Academy .

I didn’t feel comfortable flyposting and the content is inappropriate; however I felt the poster was small enough and high enough from the ground that only an interested adult would read which is unlikely as people walk through this space and don’t stop.

Most of my work has a poster aesthetic but it would need to be blown up to the right size and the paste wouldn’t stick.

Although me and my fellow colleague did attempt outside in the HPO courtyard.

A mock up of Vermeer the girl with the pearl ear ring now the girl with the oxygen tank.
Digital manipulation drawing onto the layer creating a painted look for the tube and then adding that layer to the photograph.
Raising awareness for Cystic Fibrosis; my friend had to wear this for years before he passed away.

Overall I enjoyed the digital mock ups then going out in public and flyposting I felt self conscious doing this in public.