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If you're an artist, what kind of art do you make?: Drawing, Painting, Sculpture

About my artwork: Driven by outside
Forces floating like the dust
Enveloping me

I make pictures; they drive themselves, inspired from the everyday, flashing imagery before my eyes. The books I read, biographies, which inspire music that takes me away into a Realm beyond this one. All of these things coexisting together, forging links that perhaps are at first not seen. I believe it is possible to link everything.

“Only through Art can we get outside of ourselves and know another’s view of the universe.”
Marcel Proust

Artists I like: Guston, Giacometti, Bacon, Munch, Darger, Rousseau, Nolde, Kollwitz, Picasso, Dubuffet, Modersohn-Becker, Manet, Van Gogh, Baselitz, Kippenberger, Kilminick, Blake.....

Interests: Painting, reading, writing, cycling, walking, being with friends and talking about Art

What exhibitions are good at the moment?: Serpentine pavillion, Anna Bjerger at David Risley, Jakob Roepke at Fred

The centre of the artworld is: New York, London, LA, Berlin, Beijing, my studio, online, nowhere and everywhere, another city

At 8:08pm on 22nd October 2008, Simeon Ackroyd said…: Grand. Saw his work at venice biennial and was spellbound by his world of mirrors and beasts. Lost my phone on way home on that night. Was great to see you and thanks for the present. Shall savour it.

Sim

At 8:39pm on 26th August 2008, Kali said…: Sometimes, just field lines of Earth, very faint, but just see-able, with patience and tuning eyesight... k

At 6:13pm on 21st August 2008, Kali said…: Hi Kelly, my name is Kali, i wondered if you knew anyone who Would you like to visit me in Devon (coast line) (for a little holiday ) and paint Surreal paintings alongside me?, If so please contact me at:-
kali.artist@googlemail.com
They will be well looked after, I am a good host and teacher if neccessary, no previous experience required, no pressure, I am just looking for friendly company on my Artistic Journey

At 12:57pm on 20th August 2008, Birobent Martine said…: I am loved and well loved. I create with that love in the hands, I create in a world I built in my head, my work shop is an island and a refuge to escape from the reality.
I love the artists of urgence , the one who scream and protest and denounce. They are important and essencials, they are my brothers and sisters, (I am an old anarchist !) I do it when I speak, I would sing it, but in my hands, I just escape and build an other world.
It does not heal, it cultivates the beauty. Scars stay, but the strength of the life (resilience ?) allows to continue by enjoying the present if the present is happy. I am just often happy because I have love and luck and friends and food and my body works well, and it is a way to thanks my life to build smiling entities full of colors !
Let's be skisophrene !
I never write so long in english . I wonder if I do it properly enough to be clear and easy to be understood.
Salutations,
Thanks for your comment,
Martine

At 12:57pm on 20th August 2008, artreview.com said…: Hi Kelly.

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At 12:06pm on 20th August 2008, Giulio Baistrocchi said…: thank you for the enlightening
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At 10:30pm on 19th August 2008, mike hinc said…: Thanks. Drop in whenever you like. Getting lost can be good for the soul.

At 4:44pm on 19th August 2008, Giulio Baistrocchi said…: i don t know about the concept you told me if you got vtime explain it to me or i will look on wikipedia. my idea of violence is that it is inside ourselves so in order to let it go first i think it is better to accept it so it has less power on our life. i don t believe in violence but in the same time i don t want it to deny it in order to make it stronger. i m not talking about outside violence but the one inside ourselves, that no matter we deny it is there. when u accept it u are not it slave anymore and you can look for peace amd harmony my actual goal. i m not very good in explaining myself