New Chairs.

Some new Chairs. Nest Pictures to come!

Also new website currently in the making....wooo.

Funny things.

So i do have to update with my new chairs, but i have not got round to making them small so i can upload.

BUT i do have some images i have taken of things i see around that i find funny.

Two Horses at a Traffic Light.

Fast Response Team?

Chairsss

Been making chair pictures today, here a silly one with me in it!

Day two FOGGING AND GREYING

So the weather has been bad, its been foggy and grey so i could not do the pictures i really wanted to do. Hopefully tomorrow i will get some sun! As i need to take 3 images, including the birds nest, and also get some more chair images.

Even though it been grey i took a picture of my complete nest, also a silly picture...

Also i decided i want to do a selection of over night sleeps in the nest with other people. I have not decided what this means yet, how to document it or what is going to happen. BUT im sure it will come to me sooner or later.

To end...a silly picture.

Its FOGGING.

So i wake up this morning and there is thick fog. So now i wait... need it to clear up so i can climb a tree. I had about 5 pictures i wanted to take today...sadly visibility is limited. Will take pictures later. PANIC. Will have to do something make something work...

But here another 'making' picture from yesterday.

How To Make A Giant Birds Nest

 'Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photograph.'

This are stage one. These images will be made into photogravure plates, to be reproduced into a hand made book. Maybe even larger coloured prints, or large photogravure plates. Its all in the planning stage. Black and White are for the Plates, colour are originals.

How To Make A Giant Birds Nest - Idea one images AND text.

First you will need to collect twigs and sticks. 

With Mouth Optional. 

Hands preferable. 

Feet not advisable. 

Try not to collect sticks that are too big for you.

If you do get tried, remember to find a close bird box for a nap.

Find a tree to call home.

TBC!

UPDATE SUPDATE

So remember... i still have work up in the bowery http://www.thebowery.org/exhibitions_up.html
You should go and see it, as it is swell. Any feedback would be great!

Currently i am thinking about making some books, just too fill the time. I will be putting up images soon.

Next week i will be going back to north wales to make a GIANT birds nest, also, i hope to make a guide 'how to make a giant birds nest' so you can ALL make one also. OR if you would like me to come and make one for you....let me know :D

OH yes i keep forgetting i also have work up in the Atkinson gallery ....

http://www.atkinsongallery.co.uk/current_exhibitions.htm


I think that is all. For now.

Visual Sketchbook Idea.

Still rained off and galed away. so did not get to make my images. but i had a play for some ideas for new work...just ideas mind. like a photographic sketch to think about.

I had a walk in a wood where i places items in sets of threes, it not really my style of work...by hey i had to do something! Also i didn't have long the gale was very scary! 

chairs

Random, playing, fun....due to gale force wind which put off my photo-shoot outside!

it my set of chairs.

Camera Making FUN!

So today the sun is shining, wonderful. I have spent the day in bed with coffee, radio 4 and pinhole camera making! Today i decided to convert a 127 Brownie to a 35mm pin hole camera.

Sexy, right?

Now, i'm unsure on turning the frames....so the picture taking will be a bit hit and miss, if anyone has any ideas that would be great! Also i need to redesign a tripod feature.

Will post test roll soon.

INVITE!

liverpool biennial PT 2

Things that i responded to.

Tate.

Sculpture room experience! Walking in with headphones blashing disco tunes, surrounded by so many amazing sculptures of people. It becomes like this strange night club, each sculpture becoming a person at the dsico. This also invited you to dance on a flashing disco floor. I really enjoyed this exhibition it made me smile but also made me nervous wander around the disco wonderland everything was so still and static, cold eye sometime catching your attention but it was all alive at the same time buzzing and energetic! I really did enjoy the german tourist getting there grove on when i entered.

Walker Art Gallery.

The bin. well wolfman tilman had work there, interesting curatorial ideas mixing in his work with the old. but the pictures were just piss poor. but the bin was fun. 

Blue Coat

AMAZING! This was fun, such a great experience i have to say. Scared the poo out of me when i 1st when in, but after awhile moved through this maze of ribbons on paths or just straight through the middle i hadn't laughs so much! Now i cant find the paper with the artist name on right now so i will update later.

Noteable other exhibtions were at FACT and A founation. But i have no images! 

Anyway i really enjoyed Liverpool Biennial!

liverpool biennial PT 1

creative block. creative block. creative block. bad things happen in threes.

liverpool biennial. yes! didn't help my creative block but was a really great platform for conversation about contemporary art and where it is today. tate modern got the big thumbs up from me i have to say! Dotted around the exhibition were films on what is art, looking at figures in the art movement like 'fountain' marcel duchamp;

Main points raised were 'is it art?' Ideas were a mix. The idea that anything can be art trigged a great conversation in the art world so is this work important? Or is it now old and tired and we as artist or audience are sick of highly conceptual art that has no presence or beauty? The 'anything is art' all meaning no aesthetic qualities, no different from the everything day the lack of craftsmanship and skill??

These question i feel are very important for the current movement of the now art history. The highly intelligent art that push away a lot of people from viewing, enjoying and embracing art.  I remember seeing a talk last year where an artist put a diamond in a ash tray he questioned the viewer 'do you get it?' with a smirk i found offence as if we as the viewer were stupid as we didn't understand what he was trying to say with his work. He then continued to explain a very long winded some what tenuous link to very difficult academic books.

The question i have been wondering is, is it the fault of the artist if we don't get what he/she means from just the viewing of the art, if the work doesn't engage us in conversation, narrative or a sense of emotional responses....or is it the audience?

Well, after a long week including tea spilt on my mac everything back!

65 images created, now what to do with them. umm. 

Also im looking for exhibition opportunities, know any leeds based artist or makers that fancy planning something fun art wise and exhibition wise point them my way! 

Ta.

bing!

new work....more to come.

fancy buying a print? limited edition of 10, hand signed......make me an offer!?

I made brains, not art. just brains. might add some art to the end...

well that was odd, it wouldn't let me put up the image as it claimed it  i was indeed not the owner of...wait...my own art work!

New Project, and studio.

So, i have no followers. Is this then talking to myself? I think that is allowed....treat of being an artist.

So, this is my studio.....


Lots of work will be happening... like...this...

Umm what do you think?

ALSO...

HELP...struggling artist! With Galleries charging 40-50 % of your sale price  and the cost of making, entering, posting work i pretty much loose out on every exhibition! Im really enjoying my new project but i'm running out of money to make it! So what im doing is selling prints (20by30") hand signed and limited edition.

 If 5 people buy a print i can do them at £35 each (i normally sell my prints between £145-195) e-mail me if your interested mio@sarahfrancisart.co.uk. The price only covers printing and a small fraction of profit to go to make more images. Prints are normally £35 at the printers, but if 5 people buy i can get the cost down and make some material money!

Current Project.

i have been growing mold.

no photoshopping here. no no no.

made with my experimental processes and traditional methods.

work in progress. i have lots of idea for installation...maybe with ...oh now that will be telling. you will have to wait and see.

Exhibtions.

so out of 1600 people, i battled my way to be shortlisted in the National Open Art Competition! then, there was me....450 other all wishing for a place in the 120 to be in the show....only 10 will be photographers i hear.

http://www.thenationalopenartcompetition.com/

Hello. My Name Is Sarah, i will be one of the 10 photographer showing at the National OPen Art Competition! How are you!

*time for a pause in blog for a boogie*


anyway, if your in or around Chichester  and fancys seeing some sexy art...go. simple really.

Shiny. New. Shiny and New.

Hello all. My name is Sarah Francis i am a Artist. I like to work with photography creating images and mixed media images which explore the surface of an image. I do not use photoshop, everything is done traditionally by hand using experimentally methods i have developed. I do a lot of digital images also which are all shot in frame with no alterations.