Continuing the Uncensored theme we were asked to make 40 individual art works within a 2 week time frame. The main idea behind this was to work as fast as you can, it was all about creation and the process of making, not spending time sketching or researching or simply procrastinating, just make. This is not as easy as it sounds and was indeed a challenge. I decided to use as many different types of media as I could in the given time and to use a large variety of materials.
I already had several new unused canvas’ 300 sheets of gold silver and copper leaf and a whole rage of old paintings I could start with. I also purchased a few old framed photos from a charity shop and set to work. Rather than list every piece I will attached a selection of images.
For the small public show a small work was chosen and displayed in the Linear gallery for a week. It was a charity shop water colour painting of flowers which I hated and completely covered with a photograph of 2 wine glasses then gave it a gold leaf ground. I used the original frame and glass and due to its small scale worked very well on the large white wall of the gallery.
Michael Palmer 