‘Girl with cradle and toys’ by Rossina Bossio »
Painting by Rossina Bossio, ‘Girl with cradle and toys’, modelled by Miss Aniela, to be featured in Rossina’s upcoming Rennes exhibition. Check out the painting on Rossina’s blog and Flickr stream.
My collaborations with Rossina Bossio »
This past few weeks I have been sharing on Flickr the results of a collaboration with Colombian artist Rossina Bossio, who lives in Rennes, France. I have known of Rossina’s paintings and photographs for a while now, through her Flickr photostream. I started to share interesting conversations with her online a few months ago when [...]
Palm Springs Photo Festival »
I was in Palm Springs the other week, to attend the Photo Festival (PSPF) and give a presentation on my work on 2nd April. This opportunity was thanks to Blurb, with whom I publish my book ‘Self gazing’. They also wanted to use the time at the festival to have a meet-up with the other [...]
She Took Her Own Picture »
It is finally here! She Took Her Own Picture is a selection of self portraits by 44 female self portrait artists on Flickr. The contributors, which include myself, hail from North and Latin America, Australia, the Caribbean, Oceania, and all over Europe including the UK and Ireland.
The idea for the collaboration came about about a [...]
Top 5 current Flickr inspirations (and a bit of Flickr criticism) »
Above: l-r, 5-1!
Ok, here’s my current ‘Top 5 flickr inspirations’. It comes as an odd time to write this, because at the moment I’m kind of pissed off with the Flickr community.
I fully appreciate my Flickr viewership, exemplified by the 170+ comments on my latest pic, ‘Their evening banter’. I consider this one of [...]
Top early Flickr inspirations (part 2) »
Above: l-r, 5-1!
My Top ten of early inspirations on Flickr, continued, 5 -1. (No. 1 strongest)
For 10-6, click here.
5. Jaime Bley
When I was first around on Flickr I was looking at all the work of people who ‘cloned’ themselves. Jaime was into multiplicity and I liked her work. However, not until recently, when I [...]
Top early Flickr inspirations (part 1) »
Above: l-r, 10-6!
On a recent post there was a little discussion about whose inspirations people could see in my work. I slightly disagreed on their choice. I thought therefore it might be interesting for me to sit down and analyse the most powerful inspirations I have encountered on Flickr.
I try not to be someone who [...]
'Young girls and dreaming cats' »
Here are some images from the artist BALTHUS (1908-2001).
This selection of his work I have put together is characterised by cats, dark rooms, chairs, tables and girls, and are my favourites of his pieces. By ‘girls’, that is to say, barely pubescent girls, whom he found more interesting than grown women for the mysteriousness of [...]
“Pop art, peaches and pertness” »
A subconscious patchwork of inspirations operate inside the mind of any artist… in fact, some theorists argue that art is never original because it is an amalgamation of cultural references to texts they have already seen.
For me, that patchwork quilt has many Flickr artists included. For instance, the ones in this montage. Elements of each [...]
An influential Guy »
Obviously not my work, but the work of Mr Guy Bourdin. (Refs for images: Top, middle, bottom). His fetishistic images tend to use legs and shoes and tights and made-up women alot, and often look like fashion shoots or advertising images. Other images look like movie scenes. Bourdin also loved the draw and paint, but [...]