The Exquisite Corpse and others...
Here are a selection of various Mail Art projects the first is a collaboration with Paul Clifford.
2004 Galeria d'Arte do Convento Espirito Santo, Loule, Portugal
This body of work is a result of a collaboration between two travelling artists who share an empathy for surrealism and travelling. The work has been prompted by journeys made between several global locations, including Portugal, France, Germany, India, Cyprus, Spain, USA and North Yorkshire.
2004 Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan
2004 Oriel Gallery, Carmarthen2004 Galeria d'Arte do Convento Espirito Santo, Loule, Portugal
This body of work is a result of a collaboration between two travelling artists who share an empathy for surrealism and travelling. The work has been prompted by journeys made between several global locations, including Portugal, France, Germany, India, Cyprus, Spain, USA and North Yorkshire.
A series of several hundred mail art paintings have been created and posted in a reciprocal visual dialogue, that has resurrected the surrealist game of the "Exquisite Corpse" within a contemporary cultural context. The project explores and extends the potential of accidental encounters, using intervention from the world postal systems, with stamps, franking and official annotation becoming integral to the poetics of the image.
The small scale ( 20 x 30 cm ) mail works have also been extended into a series of digital images and of 4 large scale ( 120 x 150 cm ) paintings in mixed media.
