The Show

2010-05-12T04:34:00.000-07:00

From a blank canvas to creative space.... 9 days of mayhem!

This booklet folds out to 2.5m!!

Phew!

The Creatives

2010-02-08T07:15:00.000-08:00

With much delay, this post has been long time in coming...

This is about the Artists and people who made this transformation possible. As per usual - working on a shoestring to meet tight deadlines comes with the territory of working in
these archetypal situations for independent artists.

Anyway... we powered through to produce a beautiful little exhibition.

The Commissioned Artists......

Mac 1

An extremely talented graffiti writer with serious time and skills under his belt..
This mans' talents are boundless - T minus 1 day - here is an edited story of the
development of this combination piece.

8ft x 8ft Ply.. Primed and ready to go..

Painted on site @ 203 High St Dudley

30/11/09

The only thing is, watching this man..

blink

and you miss it

The layers keep building.....

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Dripping
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p
p
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Till it's over... in a flash >

Title.. I Will Not........

Photographs Copyright D Godfrey 2009 - 2010

Artwork Lee Wood - AKA - MAC 1

Inspiration: life cycles of a woman

Medium

Aerosol & Emulsion on Plywood

Canvas' (Centre left) Portrait
Medium - Aerosol on board

Canvas - (Centre right) Nude study

Medium - Oil on Canvas.

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Commissioned Artist

David Bassinder AKA Krude

David is an extremely talented local painter / graffiti writer / public artist.

Profiled on the Live & Let Live pages -

Basseys' combination of Aerosol and Emulsion paints lead to fantastic surface finishes.

The flatness on the paint gives him the medium to visualise Dudley High St in a new light.

5 days in the creating. This piece developed as the project grew. David helped to construct the show and exhibit 9 works including his commission.

Inspired by his surroundings, Davids' commission compliments his recent canvas' High St 1 & 2

His loose style brings new life to a polluted and dreary corner at the Top Church end of Dudley High St>>>

This was the beginnings of another massive piece of 8 x 8 creative genius.....

But, this was just the start.. the principles behind this image were to play with perception..

After planning the presentation of the work to make it differ from the norm, David decided to explore perspective....

First Look on Sunday 29th November.....

This painting kept developing right up till the final moments of presenting the show....

You've got to love the dedication!!

Davids' work went down a storm at the Arts Space Gallery.

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Next Up

Eclectic Clothing - AKA - Sally Buxton

Sally is an independent textiles artist. Specializing in Print, Fabric Manipulation and Remade Fashion, she created a series of 3 'Art' Skirts. A fresh look at showing canvas in an exhibition.

The 'Urban Fragmentation' series was created following the Live & Let Live Gallery's 2009 show. We were fortunate enough to have a series of hanging bust mannequins donated to us by Jill Bennett and Clare from the VM team at Dudley's House of Fraser Store (now closed).

With the technical expertise of Carl Stanley & Richard the Third, the work took the exhibition to the next dimension.

As you can see.. Sally loves Circles!!!!!

The surface design of these pieces needed very close inspection to appreciate the intricate beauty of the finished pieces...

Medium: Emulsion Transfer, Screen Print, Hand Printed Silk & Fabric manipulation on Canvas

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Oh, and ME!!!!
DAFT

Working on my mannequins from the Live & Let Live Gallery, I wanted to make a new piece for the Arts Space Show.

I work with donated and discarded materials. The mannequins I saved from a skip C/O Marks & Spencer's on 2008, the denim I believe was a pair of twisted Levi's donated by Kinglux in 2007, combined with circles cut from all those fiddley bits that end up on the studio floor...

Garment 1: Circle Bustier

Hand draped to work as a top layer over Vest / Custom Tee.

I then took my circles to a new dimension with a little twist of fabric manipulation.....

The disks were twisted to create a small cone structure, then placed together to begin to form a three dimensional surface and sculptural silhouette for the garment.

Time being a critical factor, I worked the garment directly onto my mannequin in the exhibition space...

This gave me a small transgression.. (mannequin smaller than dress stand syndrome!)

To keep the theme of transformation, I retained the Kinglux
Levi's as an example of the origination of the cloth for the garment.

I love circles too!!!

Et voila!

Phew!

Coming soon, a walk through and listing of the show - including additional works from, D Bassinder, Juice 126 and Spiralcraft.

Changing rooms black country style

2009-12-02T12:46:00.000-08:00

given a week to create an exhibition from a blank shop space............

203 high st, DUDLEY..........

A group of artists came and worked together to create something from nothing in 7 days

Team

Dan Godfrey
Carl Stanley
David Bassinder
Lee Wood
Sally Buxton
Richard the Third

soon to be enabled by the Transformation Fund c/o Dudley MBC

This exhibition has provided the opportunity to create new work for 4 Artists

David Bassider
DAFT
Eclectic Clothing
Mac - 1

Drawing from the experience and links of the Live & Let Live Gallery, we have
created an exhibition space and the opportunity for the artists to present their
work in a new and unique way.

Each display of the created works involved the artists throughout the process,
working as a group enabled the show to look how it does.

Phase 1 - Build
Phase 2: Hanging Material
Painting

Lighting - V.Glover Electrical Services

Just the beginning!

We are the transformers!

The Show

The Creatives

Changing rooms black country style