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Recent Drawings

I made a decision to draw more. I want to start exhibiting my drawings - showing things as opposed to time based work. And not just that, but things which are of things. That show off their thing-ness. Drawings of dense, weighted things. Things with mass.

For the last week I've been drawing for about an hour a day. Here are a selection of the ones I like.

Chain of Spheres, pen on paper, 2012
Closed Dark Box, pen on paper, 2012
Coffee Cup, pen on paper, 2012

Coin or Chip, pen on paper, 2012

Connected Balls, pen on paper, 2012

Cup and Liquid, pen on paper, 2012

Curled Tape, pen on paper, 2012

D, pen on paper, 2012

Dropped Pringles, pen on paper, 2012

Fingerbob 1, pen on paper, 2012

Fingerbob 2, pen on paper, 2012

Flaming Torch, pen on paper, 2012

Growth Rings, pen on paper, 2012

Monitor, pen on paper, 2012

Open Box, pen on paper, 2012

Precious Ball, pen on paper, 2012

Precious Balls, pen on paper, 2012

Return, pen on paper, 2012

Scissors, pen on paper, 2012

Stepping Stones, pen on paper, 2012

Weighted Feather, pen on paper, 2012

Y and Right Bracket, pen on paper, 2012

Guston

Paintings and drawings of clearly defined things (i.e. distinct, separately discernible objects or figures) by Philip Guston from the MoMA collection in chronological order


J A P A N


I make music under the name of Dogtanion and today my first album, JAPAN, is released.

I'm excited for obvious reasons - it is my first album! You can buy it in the shops! etc. etc. But I'm not excited in the way I thought I would be when I first started writing and recording music as a teenager.

But then I was thinking about it, and I realised that my teenage self would still be really proud of me, even if he was annoyed that I wasn't rolling a massive spliff to celebrate, because this is an idiosyncratic collection of songs, all made by me, my own way, without any feeling of compromise or pandering to what I think people might like. The album is stupid, serious, obvious and complex, and as a 16 year old hard core music fan - which is the best, most devoted sort of fan - that would have got my approval.

And that is more than enough for me.




You can buy it digitally from iTunes here.

or

You can order it in physical reality from HMV here

Thanks to everyone who has been involved in Dogtanion at any point, for whatever reason. But special thanks go to Will Evans, head of Tape Club Records, for devoting himself to music that he believes in - and for some reason that including me.

xx

Attendant


Attendant, two channel sound installation for gallery toilets (male, female), 2012

[Commissioned by South Square gallery]