compARTment pilot project in Brighton
Posted on | July 15, 2010 | No Comments
The groovy little arts/empty spaces collective I’ve co-founded have secured temporary use of two stalls at Brighton’s Open Market prior to the major developments planned. This is brilliant news for us and in some ways a long time coming!
This is our pilot project in the realms of transforming unused city space for creative and community regenerative purposes. We need it to transform these spaces fast and we need them to pull some new life into this wonderful market space, to boost the income of the present stallholders who are stuggling due to the impending development and therefore emptying spaces.
So we need people with ideas for utilising the 2 stalls (which are garage size indoor spaces), as well as ideas that spill into the open market public areas (roaming dance/theatre/performance or anything you can think of). We’re after proposals for anything from art projects and performances to volunteering and community projects. If you think you have a good idea for a project please fill out the form on our projects page on our website.
We’re also putting a call out for artists and makers to have a stall at our artists market. You can do 1 day or up to 2 weeks. Have a read of our Artists/Makers Market page on our site and fill out the short application form if you’re interested.
Latest artwork
Posted on | September 28, 2009 | No Comments
A couple of preview images of my latest work.
The work is based around ideas of repetition and deconstruction. Straight lines are scored into the painted paper with a knife tip, creating a strong white line against a dark background. The simple yet repetitive act of ruling hundreds of lines echoes the process of meditation – out of a a simple act repeated can arise something beautiful.
With each line the painted paper is partly stripped back to bare paper, or scored even deeper, revealing the structure of the paper. It could also be said that in this way meditation has an effect on the psyche/soul.
Linear repetition 1
Linear repetition 3
Go Brighton picture hanger, hang those pictures!
Posted on | March 24, 2009 | No Comments
Brighton picture hanger hanging up high in London
Maybe i spoke too soon. Just when you think you’re efforts will amount to nowt, along comes life to say “hang on buddy, you don’t know anything about how this stuff works”.
The way I see it is that all our efforts are washing around in the great efforts washing machine/lotto ball tumbler. And thanks to some cosmic laws we humans will never have any idea about, you get a return on your effort.
So, long way of saying, I’ve got my first picture hanging gig in Brighton on Friday. Great first client, great house, should be a good one. And a great way to kick off the business down here.
Here’s to many more.
webby stuff this month
Posted on | March 16, 2009 | No Comments
Picture hanging in Brighton has not yet sprouted, though the seeds have been planted via web presence and business cards and speaking to local framers. So in the meantime it’s commuter time – back to London for a month or two of ad agency work it seems. My CV seems pretty popular so shouldn’t be hard to line a few things up.
I’ve also put the London picture hanger live and am putting links out there via directories so hopefully we’ll get that site higher in search results. Not too much competition for the spots so fingers crossed.
Also working on Peter Twigg’s IST site and blog (fifth wave), will link to when live.
peartruck reincarnates
Posted on | February 10, 2009 | No Comments
peartruck is Patrick Donohoe, artist, and the Brighton picture hanger, as well as general web guy, gardener, meditator etc.
This is the new version of my sit. I’ll be editing and playing around with it as time goes on.
If you want to make contact email patrick(at)peartruck.com
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