tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92098356000416332832024-03-08T11:15:58.404+00:00thehorsesmouththehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-20737204472751083092014-09-16T01:20:00.000+01:002014-09-16T08:50:20.752+01:00well, the first thing i want to say is:<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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What an opening line! Mandate my ass!<br />
Theres a <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2014/07/from-different-perspective-in-different.html" target="_blank">background blog which you should check out</a> concerning my art project B-Movie. And since this whole project is based on Gil Scott Herons song, if you havent ever heard it, you must do it now, and listen to what he says. Written in 1981, it's eerily prophetic. I've combined a mural commission from <a href="http://www.benricks.co.uk/" target="_blank">Benricks Coffee Shop in Prenton</a>. who wanted to brighten the place up, and their brief was to do something that 'got people talking', together with a couple of artworks, and it's my contribution to this years Liverpool Biennial as a registered Independent.<br />
And what mandate has Scotland given this total sham of a US lapdog Govt? I mean there's only 1 tory mp elected up there. The muck's flying now though, and the No campaign finally got going. Doom, gloom, scare stories, and backwards facing policies.<br />
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getting more tied to hip with the US, and out of touch with so much of the rest of the world, even Europe doesn't like us.Can you blame Alex Salmond for wanting away?</div>
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While everyone else is going green, were still guzzling the black stuff, and faster than ever. And while we're tied to oil, we're tied to war. The word war doesn't mean anything to us any more I don't think. It's slaughter thats going on in the Middle East, and it's only getting worse. The only place to get both the story, and behind the story, is to watch Aljazeera. Brave journalism. They have Correspondants everywhere, not, incidentally, 'embedded' with 'our boys'! So I chose the Aljazeera symbol to represent a couple of things with this project. First, it translates as 'peninsula'. I'm staging the project on the Wirral this year, and looking at the skyline from this side of the Mersey this Biennial. So I've painted in the Liverpool skyline as a reflection on the glasses of the main artwork. Secondly, they really do do news well. They started broadcasting in the US just over a year ago. I was surprised when I heard that, what with the Corporate dumbed-down media that dominates. Aljazeera is like Gil, tellin' it like it is. So I thought I'd combine some iconic imigary on the mural.</div>
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We've managed to manipulate a situation with Putin this past year, which no doubt will be the narrative behind fracking. We don't live in the US or Australia, where 200 miles of nothingness can surround a town. And the environmental disasters caused are numerous. Problem is, everyone's been paid off well, and there's confidentiality clauses built in, to stop the downsides of fracking becoming known. While all the mess unfolds daily on mainstream news, and people walk around connected to the world via a smartphone and twitter, moaning and gossiping about all the bad news and the bankers, laws are being slipped through Parliament. These laws have stood for centuries, and they're changing them so that licenses can be bought by foreign owned companies, in order to frack right under your house. I briefly remember a snipppet a few weeks ago, where Dave (the one who would lead the greenest Govt yet) said something to the effect that we would only frack our national heritage sites, and areas of outstanding natural beauty in 'exceptional circumstances'.</div>
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This man will frack the lot of you, then it'll be off with all his chums after a jolly good days hunting for a share of the spoils. I liked him when he tore a strip off Van Rumpoy, here's a politician who speaks his mind I thought.. But his true colours are the worst kind of tory. He's been doing the rounds in the States this last week. All the talk shows, fox, Hannity....etc...etc. God help us! Anyway, I painted him enjoying a spot of Bulgarian red, and having a fag. </div>
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The mural took me 4 days, and resides on a wall in an alleyway besides Benricks.</div>
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This next piece symbolises the tough face the US shows to the world, but its a society that has so many of its own problems to fix, fragmenting and fracturing. Recent events in Fergusson highlighted this. Aljazeera were there, got fired directly at by tear gas, and not just one round. They had set up cameras on the top of a driveway of a private house, and they were ordered away by military style police, who then actually started dismantling all their lighting rig and cameras. This is America in 2014. This all happened a couple of days before it even made the news in the UK. </div>
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I wanted the piece to look like it had been made from a pair of old saloon doors. It's called, 'we woulda' rather had John Wayne'</div>
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The medal, 'B-Movie' represents some old American political medals I've got, some 100 years old. There was a secret handshake style one in there, so I've interpreted that to hang the Gil Scott Heron medal on. That picture of it at the top isn't quite finished. I've still got to glue on some eu cufflinks to the sleeves.</div>
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I hope to add to this project. The cafe owners have asked me about updating it for next years election, and if so, I'll make a couple of new artworks.</div>
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I can't decide which aj logo shot I like best, I'm going to make some canvasses with them.</div>
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I was commissioned earlier this year, the brief being to liven up a large gable wall belonging to<a href="http://www.benricks.co.uk/"> Benricks coffee shop and cafe,</a> along the busy Woodchurch Road on the Wirral.<br />
So I'm about to start work on both a mural, and the associated art which will be my project for this years Liverpool Biennial as a registered independent. I had an exhibition as part of it two years ago, with my two main pieces <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/deliverance-work-in-progress-finished.html">Deliverance</a>, and <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/mcrings-2012.html">McRings, 2012</a>. It was a big step in my art at the time, and a learning experience.<br />
The mural will form part of 'B-Movie', inspired by the words of Gil Scott Heron's track of the same name, and my artistic interpretation of a song that I first heard in the mid eighties, falling in love back then with the monotonous and repetitive heavy beat, and a style of delivery that was unique to my ears at that time.<br />
Featuring prominently will be the AlJazeera logo, teardrop shaped and made up of Arabic script, and I've read that it translates as 'peninsula', the perfect symbol for my Wirral based project.<br />
I've been watching AlJazeera for a good few years now. Sadly, as a Country, I don't think we realise how out of step we are with so many Countries round the Globe. Maybee we're too busy two-steppin' with the USA?<br />
You learn a lot watching AlJazeera. This week on <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/earthrise/">a past episode of Earthrise</a> I've seen how in Spain, they're currently building a plant that turns algae into oil. The algae feeds on CO2, so they're building it next to one of Spains largest CO2 emmitters, a cement plant. Spains emmissions would fall by 20%, whilst also producing millions of barrels of oil. The one that got me though, was a technique using sea water and fresh water, seperated by a membrane that lets the fresh water pass into the seawater, but not vice-versa. They've now perfected it, so a system built into the basement of a large building would create enough energy to power not only the building, but the neighborhood too. No emissions, no toxic chemicals, just water and green renewable energy. Given that we live on an Island surrounded by salt water, why aren't we doing this? Simple reverse osmosis. No environmental catastrophies with after effects lasting for generations, more like, ''Number 5 membranes blown, go get the mop and bucket. Clean up on tank 3.'' Instead, we're going to frack. One day they'll be fracking near you, polluting the groundwater with toxic chemicals, and you'll have to get used to earth tremors. The Company doing it will be sold to the highest bidder, someone like Cuadrilla. They can't do it in their home Country because it's illegal, but it's OK here.<br />
And its because we're allied to the USA, who are still allied to Oil. And its being sold to us against a narrative of big bad Russia turning off the gas tap. There's even a race to the bottom now. We're going to re-open the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19647226">investigation of the death of Alexander Litvinenko</a>, but bigger and bolder come the Yanks, who last night claim <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28538387">Russia broke a nuclear test-fire treaty</a>, back in the days of Ronald Reagan, which coincidentally was when Gil Scott Heron wrote B-Movie. All this against a background of chaos in the Middle East, but it's OK, Tony Blair is the Peace Envoy. The whole of the UN last week wanted to open an inquiry into the actions of Israel on Gaza, but the USA was the only one who vetoed it. We didn't have the balls, so abstained. Out of touch with the rest of the world, with Cameron defending Israel's right to defend themselves against Hamas, who incidentally are Democratically elected, but not recognised as such by the US.. The UN vote was covered by AlJazeera, but I didn't hear much mention of it on mainstream news. There's a human tragedy happening, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28573674">and the numbers speak for themselves</a>. It's all wrong, on both sides.<br />
Meanwhile at home, Cameron is going to<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10996721/David-Cameron-announces-immigration-benefits-crackdown.html"> get tough on immigrants</a>, sadly heralding a theme song for the next General Election. If you've never listened to B-Movie, do it now. Is he talking about 1981 or 2014? Hard to tell apart from the names.<br />
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So hope my artistic interpretation does it justice, and with a bit of luck will be ready in 3 or 4 weeks.</div>
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Thanks to Richard and Jane from Benricks, Andy the manager from <a href="http://www.brewers.co.uk/">Robinson Neals</a> in Birkenhead who've supplied me with all the painting and clean up materials free of charge. Steve from <a href="http://www.bbrs-building.co.uk/">Birkenhead roofing</a>, who have donated all the timber. Two local companies, who despite tough economic times, are helping to make this project happen.</div>
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A great quote by Brian Enothehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-21852401594608993972014-02-09T22:06:00.000+00:002014-02-09T22:06:31.219+00:00you don't know what you've got till it's gone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm glad I stopped and took this picture. I'd been watching that tree grow out of the window for a few years, and I was passing nearby one day with my newly bought fuji x100. I took 3 shots, and this was my pick of them.<br />
It's been done up now, so the trees gone, as has the x100, which I'd bought as take everywhere camera. And for a while I did, but when the new om-d came out, traded it in as I was desperate to try out a camera that looked and felt like a camera of my time, and one that felt familiar as soon as you picked it up.<br />
Looking back through some pictures tonight, has made me want to get an x-100 again. Yea, the autofocus was awful hunting in and out forever. Took great pictures in very low light, problem was, you couldnt rely on it to lock focus, especially on a moving subject, but it was a camera that felt right to carry and use. And thats what its all about really. Use. Its not quite the same dragging an slr everywhere, so the second of my new years resoultions, (yes....it's February already I know, but the blog was my first resolution, so I'm cutting myself some slack), is to get a camera to take everywhere. One I can always use.<br />
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It's nice when a picture comes out just as you'd wanted. Nothing posed or staged, just something you can see, taken as and when you could in that pursuit, and coming out maybe different than anticipated because of subject matter, but as you'd wanted visually.<br />
Looking back, the x-100 was perfect for that, and I miss it.<br />
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One thing I don't miss is 9-5 grind. I probably looked that happy when I used to work for someone. The first and last time was back in the late 90's, when I spent 4 years back and forward to Manchester when I worked for Granada. Being my own boss is the only way for me, no middle management idiots, and no annoying workmates, as I choose who I want to work with. You see workmates quite literally at war with each other, working for titles instead of money, and the causes of wars as inane as someone earning 30 pence more per hour. So no thanks. I'll get an x-100 instead please.<br />
Oh, and the third and last new years resolution is to get out more and use the first two.<br />
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I haven't blogged in months. It's been a difficult year all told, and I got some knocks earlier in the year that set my confidence right back with my art.<br />
It's difficult to know exactly what to do to 'become' an artist, and what circles you should try in. One thing I learned , and a circle I'll be avoiding is the 'Emperors new Clothes' lot. You see, the fact is, I've made a decent living being one to this point. The interiors may pay the bills when I choose to do them, but my art has already been used and paid for by some pretty big names in film and tv. I forget that some of the stuff I've designed and produced can be seen that way, but the fact is it has and can. I've just looked through a <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/up-for-semi-retirement.html">CV that I put online last year</a>, and to be honest, I'll hold that up to all the bullshit artists I've met along my path to 'be' an artist. Fact is, I am one, get over it haters.<br />
I'm experimenting with a finish at the moment for the first sculpture in the series Bluette. The foundry I spoke to said it can't be done, and maybe they're right, but I'll persevere and do it myself, as it will link in nicely with a piece I did for the Butterfly Park in New Ferry. So fingers crossed on that one.<br />
I spotted the sunflower walking the dog Friday. I couldn't figure out how I hadn't seen it before that to be honest, as I walk up that road every day! I put it down to the fact that it's probably been below the metal fence until then. I've no idea how it wound up between the two fences, but it kind of speaks to how I've felt the last few months with life in general and my art, blocked off on one side, and watching the other through barriers. So I'll make sure I get a couple of snaps when it blooms, and I'll try and keep the blog updated a bit more. I really don't give a shit anymore how my art's perceived by those who seek to criticise and mock, I learned who they are, and they're actually a pretty sad bunch! Leave them to it, and I'll keep doing what I do.<br />
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<br />thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-22415976041782884572013-07-28T00:34:00.000+01:002013-07-28T00:49:52.288+01:00So long JJ<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-85810547860606600602013-06-12T10:13:00.000+01:002013-06-12T10:13:14.569+01:00and another one's gone<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-8251392751748251762013-01-22T19:26:00.000+00:002013-04-17T12:07:04.837+01:00thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-82597915468438724952013-01-18T23:48:00.000+00:002013-01-19T01:20:32.385+00:00journeys<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Someone said the other day I looked like I was on a mission in this picture. I probably was. Its taken back in 1968 outside 22 Seymour Street where I was born , when t-bar sandals and dickie bows were all the rage. Someone obviously tucked my shirt in for that photograph, but wasn't quite quick enough to catch the picture before I set off again!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There's a few journeys I'm on at the moment with my art, I've just set the ball in motion on an idea I've worked on for the last 2 years, my Kenny Dalglish sculpture, and you can read about that on <a href="http://dalglishhh.blogspot.co.uk/">a separate blog.</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Theres a couple of ideas I've got out there, but competitive art commissions can be very laid back about deciding, so it was good to have the time to prepare for the start of my Kenny campaign, and I did it at Madelaineartz Gallery in Liverpool City Centre, where she annually hosts her Mad About Liverpool Exhibition. I missed the opening by the mayor, and the music, and the speeches, I got in just in time to find out that I hadn't won the raffle though. There was a prize for best artwork, which was jointly won by another Kenny Dalglish artwork. It was quite incredible, David Foster had used nails to re-create his, 31,950 of them, one for each minute he played.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm hoping that with his popularity, once the medal goes to the stadium after the exhibition, the project will start to take off.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've twice bumped into someone I worked with a few years ago this week. We were having a chat about some pictures I took at the time, and talked today about a project he's working on, where they will fit nicely into. Some great shots, and some of the subjects are quite well known now, locals too, so fingers crossed there, a nice paid gig for a change. Bit of money next week from some shadowboxes I'm making to infill a fireplace, only requirement is their superlambanana fits in one of them. I watched the original getting made funnily enough, as I was making the sets at the time on a Brazilian film called Maua, and had my workshop space at the old Bryant and May factory in Speke. They were making it in a unit at the side of the old factory, and I saw it at various stages from the steel armature, but missed the painting stage.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been asked to be the Official photographer again for this years Wirral Studio Tour, I know what I said last time about it, but I took some great pictures of Tommy McHugh, you can see some of them </span><a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/happy-birthday-tommy.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, blogged about, on what would have been his birthday His story is amazing, and theres something I want to work on, but the time's not right yet.. I got that from it last time, so I said yes when they asked, of course I would, and it was great to be asked again.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm waiting on the council for the sculptural mural I'm doing in Hoylake, planning has had to be sought, so I'm not holding my breath, and I'm guessing spring there.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I missed last nights opening, because I was sat outside talking to someone who lost his brother at Hillsborough in 1989, and he was telling me his story. He volunteers at the Hillsborough Justice Campaign shop outside Liverpools Football Ground, where they sell goods to help fund their Campaign, and offer a place to meet, and talk. After listening to him, I looked on their website again at more of their stories, real and personal ones and read them. There are interviews and stories, documenting their campaign for one thing, Justice. Quite how they had the strength after 20 years to carry on is unimaginable, but they did, and when they chanted for what they sought to Andy Burnham on live TV, finally someone listened to them. The Nation should hang its head in shame on what they've been through, and what they were forced to do in getting there. An Establishment Cover up from the top, and a smear on the fans, the City of Liverpool, and its people.These people exposed the liars, and were the inspiration behind the words of Deliverance, a poem I wrote, displayed as an artwork. You can see it <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/deliverance-work-in-progress-finished.html">on this blog post.</a> I was reading some of the poems on their website, real accounts, expressed from the mouths of the people who were there, and who witnessed it for themselves. They have created Social History, and have allowed the floodgates to open for other recent injustices and scandals, and their voice deserves to be heard repeatedly, and at every level in society, until Justice is served on all those implicated in the cover up. If you never have before, please read their stories <a href="http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/">http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/</a></span><br />
some are no longer here to tell theirs, they died of shattered hearts. And they continue to do so, three commited suicide last year alone.<br />
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'In Deliverance, by combining poetry with sculpture, Terry has managed to capture the spirit of the city of Liverpool. Political, contemporary and poignant, this is a relevant piece that manages to capture the zeitgeist of the city in the wake of the recent Hillsborough findings. Liverpool is a unique city, and this piece is uniquely Liverpool in its approach and execution.'<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I'm looking at what forum I want to display Deliverance this year, and will start to look for the right opportunities.</span><br />
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thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-58399195334276464902013-01-12T08:32:00.000+00:002013-01-15T16:49:45.529+00:00get Kenny at the Kop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've got 3 pieces of my Liverpool art at an upcoming exhibition called Mad about Liverpool, which opens Thursday 17th January, in <a href="http://www.madelainartz.com/">Madelainartz</a> upstairs in Clayton Square for her Exhibition Mad About Liverpool 2013, and <a href="http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echo-entertainment/2013/01/14/madelainartz-gallery-presents-mad-about-liverpool-2013-100252-32591854/">my campaign got a mention in the Echo</a>, which has just advertised it. I'm going to launch a mini version of my <a href="http://www.dalglishhh.blogspot.co.uk/">St. Kenny</a>, which will be priced at £70. Half the money will go to The Hillsborough Justice Campaign (HJC), who have a shop opposite Anfield. The plaques will be for sale at their shop as well as Madelainartz. I've been campaigning to get my sculpture put up at Anfield for 2 years now, and hope to sell 1000 miniatutures of my St. Kenny, which will allow me to one day see a 12 foot version of my Kenny in stainless steel and granite at the Kop. Anyone who buys one will be helping me in sponsoring the sculpture at the stadium. I set up a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GetKennyAtTheKop">FB page</a>, or <a href="https://twitter.com/dalglishhh">@dalglishhh</a> on twitter and hope one day to set out what I've been wanting to achieve for 2 years. Ambitious, but as Shankly said, 'Aim for the sky and you'll reach the ceiling, aim for the ceiling and you'll stay on the floor.'<br />
Here's the very first test cast in bronze finish, I'll do a pewter tomorrow. email me dalglishhh@gmail.com if you want to help me get Kenny at the Kop.<br />
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<br />thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-48173332848818121332012-12-23T00:28:00.000+00:002012-12-23T01:14:23.002+00:00colours, on a wet wetland day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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One of the many delights washed up on the Crosby shoreline. As blue as the grey blue day.</div>
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thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-5895238779941656292012-12-19T23:06:00.000+00:002013-01-01T23:45:01.309+00:00McRings, 2012<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a personal statement, on this, an olympic year, and what it meant financially.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">'' ‘McRings’ invites the viewer to explore the interactions between publicly and privately funded events such as the Olympics, and asks them to examine the eventual economic returns and consequences, and who they favour.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Constructed from cooked and dehydrated french fries, and resin bonded into 5 hoops measuring 4 feet across in total, the golden ‘olympic rings’ sit atop a suitably scaled ‘french fry’ holder.''</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is what I said about the piece when I first advertised my exhibition at The Albert Dock earlier in the year. I exhibited as an Independent, <a href="http://www.independentsbiennial.org/2012/10/18/deliverance-an-exhibition-at-the-albert-dock/">and I posted it here</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two local papers ran it, <a href="http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-entertainment/echo-entertainment/2012/10/19/the-long-night-of-the-liverpool-biennial-features-work-by-wirral-artist-terry-hayes-and-american-photographer-annie-liebovitz-100252-32061118/">getting a mention in the Liverpool Echo</a>, where I was honoured to be on of their two picks for the Long Night of the Biennail. The<a href="http://www.wirralnews.co.uk/wirral-news/local-wirral-news/west-wirral-news/2012/10/24/wirral-arts-claughton-artist-talks-about-inspiration-behind-biennial-exhibition-80491-32087646/"> Wirral Globe ran a photo</a>, and gave me a little write-up. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was certainly talked about at my Exhibition, and I felt it went down really well, with a lot of positive responses to it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made it in response to stories in the press of independent bakeries, sweet shops, even a wool shop, being threatened with legal action, as they had formed hoops with their own goods in their shop windows. I bookmarked one at the time, <a href="http://www.katiworonka.com/culturtwined/2012/olympics-commercial-regulations/">you can read about it here</a>. I made the rings from real french fries, which quite ironically, were the official food of the games. Four months on, and with their resin treatment, they still look same and are still free of mould!</span></div>
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Nature as I have tried to intimate,<br />
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It is a becoming as well as a passing,<br />
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Loren Eisley Sept 1907-July 1977.<br />
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And that quote summed the piece up for me.<br />
The original inspiration came from a run down early 19thC house near mine, which had gradually fallen deeper into disrepair. A neighbour opposite told me the old guy was an eccentric, and he lived in one room only. The house was overtaken with nature quite unbelievably. I photographed it when there were trees growing from the roof, and will present those pictures one day, together with Propagate, and represent the whole story with a sculpture. This will be the first of four sculptures in a series <a href="http://vieredblue.blogspot.co.uk/">Bluette</a>, and its form will be a starting point of explanation.<br />
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We used to call it the blackberry house, we'd go to pick the fruit, and ferret right through the overgrowth . It's been completely restored to original lately. I really miss the jam!<br />
I took some litter from the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NewFerryButterflyPark?fref=ts">New Ferry Butterfly Park</a>, among which was a can I crushed into a cube. I grew a seedling from there, and tried to immortalise it 'growing' on the can, representing how nature will always take over anything man-made. Frozen in time within a resin cube, it looks as fresh today, as the day it was cast. Set within a railway sleeper, (the butterfly park is on the site of a former rail-goods yard), the piece is finished with the quote you see above, printed on a found chip wrapper, and clear cast into the form of a found paper plate. Its been happily nestling in, and product of its environment for the last 18 months, and I'm happy its still conveying its message as clearly today as then.<br />
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I was living in America when I got my first computer. I remember it was late 1994, was the very first pentium, and it ran Windows 3.1! It had a 9.6 modem, and gave me the opportunity to sample the delights of the web, totally different to todays experience. I had a day off mid-week, and I was listening to some Christy Moore. I'd come across a website set up by some ex-pats, (following a search on the then mighty search engine Altavista), and it provided lots of links to 'home', so I was browsing, when I saw a link to a site devoted to Liverpool. I was downloading a picture of the Albert Dock (line by line), when one of my favourite tracks, Nancy Spain, started to play. It's always been an emotive song for me, but this time, overcome by the emotion of seeing my home town, the emotions spilled over into tears. I'd been living in the States for almost 7 years by that time, and not once had I ever experienced homesickness that induced this response. I phoned people, had lots of visitors, got sent soz-mix, Marigold stock and malt loaf regularly, and had too many English and Irish friends out there to make me miss home. But that day, miss home I did. I must have played Nancy Spain 5 or 6 times, all the while stirring at a place that was home, a picture, on a screen, an image so powerful that I cried for what must have been 10-15 minutes.<br />
The photo above was taken through the velux I put in the old roof section of my workshop. Being an old roof, I decided to strip the whole thing off, and start again, and I wondered at the time if I'd done the right thing! Same with the rear wall of the old brick section of the workshop, that too had a hole knocked in it, a lintel installed, and a window that looks out on the most fantasic of views. There's a picture of that <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/watching-waiting.html">in a previous blog</a>. The workshop is still not fully complete.....well they never are, are they.....but the hard work has been done, (at the cost of finishing the house, and much to the annoyance of the wife I may add) and it's going to be a nice little home for my future as an artist. I've planned the extension already, and I'll break the news if and when I get my first 5 figure Commission! I figure I can get the Cathedral view in the velux I put in that section.<br />
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This picture I took of the Dock on my birthday 7 years ago, a reflection in the Pan Am bars window, is not too dis-similar to the photo I viewed online when I was in the States, Liverbirds aloft the Dock, though that was a straightforward shot. I used it recently for my publicity pics for the Exhibition I had at the Albert Dock, and I've made some business cards for my art from it. Funnily enough, I'm listening to Christy Moore once again, and the track I've played a few times this evening is 'The Voyage'. Sums up really what we've been through, and both reminds and excites me of the Journey I'm undertaking with my Art.thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-50283883073193742822012-11-25T22:32:00.000+00:002012-11-25T22:32:52.488+00:00look, touch<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I made that toolbox nearly 30 years ago now. Its been everywhere with me. On and off movie sets, in and out the van on countless occasions, and it still functions perfectly well. There's been times that I've thought it was too old and past it, so I've had 'new' tool boxes. Several months later, when the plastic handles have fallen off, I've gone back to using the old faithful!<br />
I'm at a stage in my life where I'm looking to phase out the Interiors, they've served me well and paid all the bills, and, most importantly, funded things while my wife spent 5 years at uni. Now she's fully qualified and working as a teacher, I'm taking a brave leap into my art, and I'm keeping the toolbox. Its been my faithful companion for too long.....and it's well up for carrying my kit when I do installations and exhibitions.thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-32243056366082025252012-11-21T14:46:00.000+00:002012-11-21T14:46:23.322+00:00Happy Birthday Tommy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: white; font-family: lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 17px;">I never got to say so-long. Its not that I didnt want too, I had heard about your health, and was hoping to see you in Southport. The best laid plans and all of that. I havent forgotten about the artwork I wanted to produce after you inspired me after we met when I took your photo at the Studio tour just over a year ago, its just that the time wasn't right. Its still there, and I will do it. I got a call just after you left here from the Observer Magazine, they wanted to use an image for their magazine, I told them use what they like, and donate any money in lieu of publication fees to the brain anurism charity. I never heard back, and they didnt publish them. I saw some pictures recently of your art. They seem so sterile without your tattoed hand and bent pointing finger there to explain it, covered in copyright symbols and devoid of you. I looked again through mine, and saw what they were missing. So just to let you know, that wherever you are, I never have and will never forget. When the time is right it WILL happen. So-long for now, have a great birthday wherever you are.</span></span><br />
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Where would we be without signs huh! I'm going to be making some trail signs, there's a project happening next year that I'm really pleased to be part of, details are still a bit vague, but that just adds creatively to the process. I'm going to do some pointy-hand markers saying 'this way'. Since I spoke to the organiser, its occurred to me I'll need two carvings for the casting, a left AND a right! Cant have them all walking in a straight line....that would be too boring! I'll be doing a sculptural mural for the project too, but I'll wait for the brief before I decide how I'm going to approach that.<br />
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I made this Penny Lane cast last year, I've sold a few, but I don't promote it right. One of the shopkeepers at the Albert Dock wants to buy them, but its a few quid short of what I want for it. Sounds trivial, but there's a lot of work gone into the entire production, and even though they want 10, I'm not budging on the price, so I'll pass. I've had work doing signs from people who've seen this, and I made one last year for the opening of The Bridewell pub in Liverpool. If you ever go in for a drink, you'll know who made the sign behind the bar.<br />
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<br />thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-86586517724048343982012-11-20T12:49:00.001+00:002012-11-20T12:49:44.793+00:00Deliverance, the poem<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I had already named the <a href="http://www.independentsbiennial.org/2012/11/15/deliverance-the-exhibition/#">exhibition at the Albert Dock Deliverance</a>, and I'd been giving thought as to what I could do for a signature piece. In some respects, I'd wanted the piece to symbolise my own deliverance, as it was my first solo exhibition.</div>
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On Wednesday Sept 12th, I had followed the days news quite closely, it was the day the Independent Panel had released its evidential findings. It was an emotional day for most people from Liverpool, 23 years of being denied something that was rightful, covered up and buried by the wrongful, and that day marked the start of the new chapter , justice. A campaign driven by the love of their lost, fought for 23 years with dignity, had finally paid off. Unerring in their goal, the families of the taken had won the first step of their battle.</div>
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Many tears were shed that day, including mine, and the events just kept playing on my mind. On the Friday, I found myself a quiet hour when everyone was asleep, and I took out my little notebook. I wanted to jot some ideas for a signature piece, and as I opened the book, I thought of some words and wrote them down......</div>
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One proud voice, a son of your city, rejoices the dignified campaign</div>
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then I thought for a minute, and <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/deliverance-poem.html">added the rest of the poem as you read it today.</a> Well almost, the re-read in the cold light of morning, showed my wifes opinion, that it read stronger without the swearing, was correct. Other than that, its what came out that Friday evening. I knew straight away that the poem was my Signature piece, and decided the <a href="http://terryhayes.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/vision-gone.html">Liverbird I'd painted in 2008 </a>should be the conveyor of the message. </div>
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I combined the two, as you see pictured above. The Liverpool Echo printed a great photo on the Long Night, and I was honoured to be one of their two selections for it. The work was received really well. About a dozen people read individual lines out to me and commented on them. They told me how THEY felt, and we chatted about it. Quite a few people asked to be photographed with it too. My wife is always asking me to put my art somewhere else, its scattered everywhere, but she asked me if we can put this at the top of the stairs! A hit with both the public, and the wife? Now that doesn't happen every day!</div>
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thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-18465878836226468262012-11-14T19:50:00.000+00:002012-11-14T20:32:49.424+00:00The Sweet Melissa<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been looking for ways to help my art pay, so a few months ago, I decided to make something that would commemorate the Womens Golf, being held locally at The Royal Liverpool in Hoylake. I'd decided to depict a golfer, which one though was the uncertainty. I did a typically male google of a ladies golf swing, and I must admit, there were a few pictures out there that tempted me! But after reading further, I came across the story of Melissa Reid, you can read about it <a href="http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/golf-devil-ball-golf/melissa-reid-wins-first-start-since-her-mother-204218964--golf.html">here</a>.<br />
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I was completely isometrically ellipsed out after carving the ball from a block, and I realised, to get the look I wanted would take two separate castings. It took a few days, but I was happy with the finished piece. I've done a generic backing of Hoylake, so if anything else is happening, I've still got the mould, and I can just make a new centre-piece. Theres not as many hanging on walls as I'd like though, the Gallery in Hoylake that was selling them <a href="http://seagrassstudio.co.uk/">Seagrass</a>, suffered less visitors during the golf than normal. All the traffic and visitors were guided away from the shops, and over a muddy field to access the golf course that way. It was in the local papers, all the shop keepers were up in arms, restauraunts had bought extra food and hired extra staff. You can read about it <a href="http://www.wirralglobe.co.uk/news/9934908.Womens_Open_golf__disastrous__for_Hoylake_businesses/">on this link</a>. A bit like the Olympics in a way! Theres still a couple at Seagrass. I must go photograph it in the window before all the Xmas decorations go up!<br />
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<br />thehorsesmouthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15692851074711083490noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9209835600041633283.post-87487593642667302022012-11-01T21:46:00.003+00:002012-11-01T21:46:33.624+00:00guess i'll be seein you. seeing her seeing you seeing me<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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