Mail Art ....Projects

The Exquisite Corpse and others...

Here are a selection of various Mail Art projects the first is a collaboration with Paul Clifford.

2004 Drumcroon Arts Centre, Wigan

2004 Oriel Gallery, Carmarthen
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.

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.

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a poem by brian wake

this poem celebrates the anthony gormley installation on crosby beach south of liverpool uk.

listen to his wonderful voice......and the evocative music and the magical images of this unique project...

more about brian.......

http://brianwakepoet.co.uk/brianwakepoet/About_Me.html

Unglued unfixed collages a moveable feast

The idea of unfixed unglued collages began when I was at the artists village Cholomandal south of Chennai in Tamil Nadu.......I collected posters from the streets and began to reassemble them on the floor in the studio....a moveable construction....it spread and spread .......I have recently resurrected the idea in my studios in Portugal and the UK....building layers of images at random then Freezing them in the camera ....I like the idea of this ongoing story telling involving collisions and juxtapositions.....chance meetings like the umbrella and the sewing machine......impermanence is important just like posters in the streets that are subject to the elements or in India goats licking the glue......it is short lived information more information is added on a regular basis ...often old information is still visible....the walls have a history .......I am recreating this chance process using posters from both India and Portugal......I am hoping to exhibit some at Kochi Bookshop in Cochin in Kerala.... In 2015....

A wacki video.....      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=upoT2ZkOXFI&feature=player_embedded

Cochin India....2013......some memories

The start of the adventure manchester airport

We're off!

Coffee, croissants and moustaches @ MAN!

A visual diary 2013

indian collages......chennai 2009 and kerala 2013

on our last trip to india in 2009 we spent 10 days at the artists village in cholomandal south of chennai........i had almost no kit....except the posters that i tore from the walls along the main road into chennai......some collages were made in my sketchbook.......plus some bigger unglued collages on the floor of the studio......when we left the village i left quite a lot of clothes behind so i could bring back many of the posters.......in feb 2013 we are off to kochi in kerala....to visit the biennale....and to make a few collages along the way.....also collecting some more indian tunes and maybe some vinyl......

watch this space for more unglued stuff

a wacki video

in the studio....cholomandal