Tuesday, 29 September 2015

projectseventeenforseminar15

Disk #12 - projectseventeen, 2015. Silver leaf on enamel on board. iPhone image

Alarm on iPhone wakes me
I swipe the screen with displeasure
turn off the iPhone for its daily break
make coffee and turn on iPad
check Facebook
read messenger from daughter in London
communicate with daughter and friends on messenger
watch short film clips on Facebook
turn on iPhone check texts
turn on iMac
send text

Sealtheboard
gessotheboardonthepotterswheel
applygessowithgrapefruitspoon(plastic)
listen to sounds on iPhone
dance to music


makegesturemarksingesso
dancing in my head
send a text
open door for breeze to pass through

Applysprayenamel(gray)toboardwithdustmask
read the emails on iMac
check facebook on iPhone
browse pinterest on iPad 
make a pinboard on Pinterest
share my pinboard with friend
take a call
facetime my wife
prepareworksurfaceforsilverleafapplication
write an email
check work emails

Bringtheboardinsidetostudio
watch instructions on Youtube on iPad
applyGoldLeafSize

turn on spotify
check my recommendations for the day
save a track to playlist (in the name of art)
listen to tracks on playlist
share a track on facebook
make a call
turn on work laptop
read an essay
mark the essay
send a text
send emoticons in a text

Smudge white sage
listen to another playlist
applysilverleaftosurface
look at facebook 
send a whatsapp message
takephotoofsurfacewithiPhone
removeexcessleafwithbrush
usehandyvactopickupexcesssilverleaf
send a text
make a call 

Share a track from spotify to facebook
write a status thought for the day
takeaphotoinlatesunlightofsilversurface
post the photo on facebook
send a text
sealthesilverleafusingGoldenGAC-200

Change profile image on Facebook
drink green tea
write a blog post on wordpress
turn on smart TV
search Netflix
watch a documentary on post WW2 Atomic anxiety
send a text with emoticons
buy art materials online
do the internet banking
transfer funds

Pay for airticket using Visa
search Trademe
save car add to watchlist
search a definition for essay on iPhone
connect to work network
post grade for essay
email Youtube clip to work email
upload Youtube clip for work
exit Spotify for the day

Read book
add to pin board on Pinterest
set alarm on iPhone
exit iMac 
close down work laptop
exit laptop
close apps on iPhone
plug in charger
share latest pinboard to facebook
close apps on iPad
close down iPad
turn off Smart TV
turn off iPad

Wait for light to dim on iPhone
dark
a couple of latenotifications come in
try to go back to sleep
work shimmers in moonlight
secret light secret shimmer ...



Saturday, 13 December 2014

Recentacquisitioninthelendingroom

Rowan Belcher #17(detail) Project#12 2011 Oil on Board. private collection of the artist.

Excerpt from MFA dissertation Painting Exile and Return (The New Frontiers of Modernity) 2009:

The painter Bernard Frize has contributed to the pre and post millenarian period. He uses paint with purpose but at times its application and the procedures he uses are very simplistic and he produces a style that has reduced painting to its most pure form, the application of colour and paint on its support...
Bernard Frize has consistently used colour and its application to the surface as the core activity of his process. His surfaces are usually coated in white resin which he uses as a ground on which he applies paint with wide brushes. These glide across the surface depositing fine traces of colour that weave and overlap as they pass across it. The viewer is constantly engaged in the process of discovering how and where overlaps occur. Thus they are drawn into the process which is far from simple and the more you observe the more you are drawn into the work’s complexities. When looking at his work it is impossible not to attempt to mentally reconstruct his process. Trying to determine such things as surface and ground I am drawn into trying to decipher the before and after of his layers. The process becomes paramount to the viewing of the work. The question that constantly arises is how the artist achieved this effect?..
Belcher, R. (2009). Painting, Exile and Return (The New Frontiers of Modernity) Unpublished MFA dissertation. Whitecliffe College of Arts and Design, Auckland, New Zealand.

This work #17 was produced in 2011 post MFA and was part of the exhibition at Tairawhiti Museum, Project#12. Embedded in my process, the techniques of great French painter Bernard Frize.
http://project12-rowan.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=9

Saturday, 27 September 2014

HOUSEWORK


The work I'm doing now is about home: about moving house or not - will we stay here or go? The type of house, New Zealand architecture, Modernist post state housing house, and about the belongings in the house and the ever changing process of living in the house. Its about the rough edges, the art works the influences and inspirations of the artand music in the house. Art has become life and the house is the vessel, everything that is required to make the work is in the house, or in it's surroundings. 
A series of works will be made concentrating on still life, and landscape painting. Some works will be paintings/photographs/watercolours. Some film and soundtrack is in production as a small instalation work and thus projectseventeen (research blog) and Project#18 have come together.  Some more tactile and less representative objects which reflect surface - wall papers and silver leaf have been made and an ongoing series of such works is in production, somewhat interrupted by the move in May. As a whole the projects will reflect life story, process, feelings about life and death and the journey inbetween.








Monday, 14 July 2014

Conflation


Listening to music from the film we watched last night (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycOKvWrwYFo) - finding the album on Spotify: creating a play-list - listening to and adding to the playlist - sharing the playlist on Facebook. Making a blog, finding images to place on the blog, listening to the play-list on Spotify through good speakers - adding new tracks to the playlist. Loving the old songs, liking the feeling the record deck and amp and good speakers had. Adding links to other blogs and website - saving to the cloud - communicating on WhatsApp and Viber - checking Facebook again - messaging on facebook- whats on Twitter? - making a film and uploading it to Youtube ...

Projectprogressandongoingdevelopment

Projectseventeen was all about responding visually to film clips and music: particularly 70's of origin such as Ken Russel's "The Boyfriend", music clips from Meltdown in London last year and classic Bowie clips from years ago - photo images from Tom Ford's "A Single Man". Improvised film and sound clips from "John Butcher (saxophones), Okkyung Lee (cello) and - in the dark - Christian Marclay (turnatables) and Steve Beresford (electronics). Filmed by Helen Petts in a very underlit Cafe Oto, London. 7th May 2010." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swnYWNGznaU#t=84 2014. Cool Daft Punk dancing clips. 
Painting using the wheel and the disk with some new developments of silver leaf and photo release appearing: filming the silver disk on the wheel a direct link to the silver suit worn by Christopher Gable who dances with Twiggy on the giant surface of a turntable/record a throwback to the Busby Berkley movies from the twenties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nb0YrJ5U2tg. Packing and posting works to other parts of the country. Writing a workbook of studio process.

I have so much needed to bring this most difficult artistic time in my life to some sort of formality. Creating blogs is a relatively new found way for me to bring ideas and experiences together with the hope that a resulting 'whole' may one day become evident. Realising the potential for the art to be recorded as part of life, reviewing MFA projects/concepts of blogs and daily life becoming the work.

Project#18 is about the life changing or changing life processes we have undertaken, with the goal of liberating some of the extant dreams and desires of ours, with the aim of freeing up time to become further immersed in the most enjoyable and rewarding experience of producing Art. Whether it be in the form of a digital recording, ie. this blog, a film, a play-list, the collecting of inspirational films clips, painting, or producing work for sale. Manipulating the living experience where art lies at the core of everything we do. Inherent in us all and often denied is the instinct to create.

Bloginthedevelopingstage

Hence the website Project#18 - The State House - this is a turning point, moving into a house to attempt to adjust our lifestyles according to what we need. Garden, light, warmth, less financial burden?
State House Project 2014. http://www.weebly.com/weebly/main.php










Blogs and links to other projects  2009-2014

  1. http://rowanbelcher.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-min=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=6
  2. http://rowanbelcher.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-min=2009-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2010-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=28
  3. http://project11-rowan.blogspot.co.nz/2010/08/project-11-flightcraft-michaela-cox.html?spref=fb
  4. http://lendingroom.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-max=2012-04-28T22:24:00-07:00&max-results=7
  5. http://project12-rowan.blogspot.co.nz/search?updated-min=2011-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&updated-max=2012-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=9
  6. http://8wonderworld.blogspot.co.nz/
  7. http://belcherz.wordpress.com/
  8. http://rowanbelcher2013.weebly.com/index.html