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Artist: Pete Dungey

I am a graduating Graphic Design student at the University of Brighton working for print, installation and web.

Currently available for collaborations, commissions and work placements.

Please get in touch for further information, to see more work or just to say hello.

info@petedungey.com

(via petedungey.com)

On Pothole Gardens:

“It began as part of a project called ‘subvert the familiar’,” says the graphic design student. “I wanted to do something that would grab attention but also raise awareness of an issue, and so the project was born. I have been planting the gardens for about a fortnight now and see it as an ongoing thing.”

“Potholes are a big problem that could be eradicated quite simply. Hopefully it’s something that grabs attention and raises awareness although I wouldn’t call myself a renegade cyclist.”

Pete currently works alone but he’s hoping other people will follow his example. If you do, he’s asking you to take a snap and email it to him via his website.

(via guardian.uk.com)

WS: http://www.petedungey.com/

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Artist: Jack Shadbolt

Jack Leonard Shadbolt, artist, teacher, author, poet (b at Shoeburyness, Eng 4 Feb 1909; d at Burnaby, BC 22 Nov 1998). Best known as a painter and draftsman, he wrote 3 books and many articles and through his teaching profoundly influenced art and artists in BC and across Canada. He moved to British Columbia in 1912.

Jack Shadbolt studied at the Art Students’ League in New York City (1948) and in London (1937) and Paris (1938). After teaching art to children in BC between 1929 and 1937, he joined the Vancouver School of Art. He served in WWII 1942-45, including 1944-45 with the Canadian War Artist establishment, and then returned to the school, where he was head of painting and drawing until 1966. He was an influential teacher and adviser across Canada and the US, having conducted workshops (he was the first artist to do so at the EMMA LAKE ARTISTS’ WORKSHOPS in 1955) and juried exhibitions throughout North America. Some 70 solo exhibitions of Jack Shadbolt’s work were mounted and his many major international exhibitions included the Venice Biennale XXVIII and 4 major retrospective exhibitions at the VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, the BC Museum of Anthropology, the NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA and the Glenbow Museum.

An extraordinarily prolific artist, Jack Shadbolt worked in large series (or suites) which derived from his personal experiences of nature and Native art in BC, his many travels in Europe and his recognition of calligraphy and op-art; in paint slashes and in incisive lines, in butterflies and totem poles, in insect life and ritual brides, in poetry and architecture. Everything was transformed by his emotions as much as by his intellect. As well as painting many murals (Edmonton International Airport, the NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE and the former CBC building), he did stage, ballet and costume designs and theatre posters. Jack Shadbolt also authored In Search of Form (1968), Mind’s I (1973) and Act of Art (1981). Until his death, he continued to have an enormous output, eg, a 3-dimensional plywood relief created for the MacMillan Bloedel building in Vancouver (1987).

(via thecanadianencyclopedia.com)

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The splicing of realms

On a boat there can be a cargo of wisdom. I’ve brought along some marvelous books. Samuel Adoquei’s “How Successful Artists Study” is an up-to-date, practical guide for the transition from art school to the professional world of art. In it he talks about the “Five worlds of artists”:

1.    The inner, personal world.
2.    The real and practical world.
3.    The outside, commercial world.
4.    The future, aspiring world
5.    The fantasy world of dreams.

Adoquei suggests budding artists need to get their worlds separated from one another. Mixing fantasy with practicality is a leaky proposition.

—Robert Genn

How I wonder: is this the source of humanity’s crisis? Could the universal consolidation of - in Adoquei’s language - our “worlds,” be the key to overcoming the challenges, sufferings, misfortunes and cruelties that plague our existence. What if we enable our higher selves to consistently function in all situations, for all purposes; let go of the facades, remove our masks. What if we crushed the stoicism only sought to protect us from our own projected fears.

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