Happily a friend just found my artwork featured on the front page of ArtRabbit,
My self portrait etching is front-centre below.
Nice to see my artwork getting around. I do always feel like it’s got a life of it’s own, especially when I release the image into the world, material or virtual.
Find out about the exhibition this Friday 18th December through the ArtRabbit article,
or the FB Event,
and come down – it’s going to be lovely
I am excited to say some of my etchings – including the series of musicians, will be in the Drawing Intensive exhibition at Mercer and Chance gallery in Hoxton (details below) this weekend 18th-20th December.
The opening of the show is from 6-9pm on Friday 18th. There will be wine, art and wonderful people. Everyone is welcome!
Sing Yourself – Etching.
Details:
Drawing Intensive: Exhibition
Mercer and Chance gallery
253 HOXTON ST, LONDON
OPEN SAT, SUN, MON – 11am-6pm & BY APPOINTMENT
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FB EVENT:
https://www.facebook.com/events/451568941710173/
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I haven’t posted much here lately as I have become a firm convert to Instagram for posting my new work/work in progress. If you’d like to see some of those things then look for @blancheellisart
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In September I had the chance to work an a very interesting project created by Nicoline Van Harskamp. A reading of Pygmalion. It was live-translated back from over 14 different languages back into English and recorded. My drawings capture the reading in progress.
My drawings were then published along with the script in a limited edition book by Onomatopee.
Some of my reportage drawings from Nicoline Van Harskamp’s exhibition are showcased by the publishers Onomatopee. A fuller set of my drawings from the days events have been published by Onomatopee in the book which resulted from the reading Nicoline set up at Kunstraum Gallery in Hoxton, London.
I really enjoy reportage drawing and capturing the mood of the participants and how the marks of the drawings echoed the varied marks of the many written languages in the open books.
There was a great humour in some of the phrases as they were re-translated, the process also showed up some fascinating cultural assumptions and differences.
I hope to have the chance to work with this project further as I find the links between text and images and the cultural crossover and divergence fascinating.
Ellis 