Project space catalogue

Excess by John Cheetham, Andrea Chambers, Theo Cleary | Make Your Own Book

Faithful Nicolette

Take one very old book along with a large pile of old comics and magazines... selectively chop them all up...feel a strange kind of guilt for mutilating such beautiful old objects... get over it...stick them all together so that they reinterpret the story in your own distorted version...et voila

I will be making more of these as and when I find another choice old book.

My book

So here's my book of all this years work, the preview below shows a selection of pages not the whole book, enjoy.

STICKS and STONES by John Cheetham | Make Your Own Book

Installed

Drawing board

I found a load of old drawing boards and thought that they would make an interesting base for a painting, my thinking being I normally make loads of marks and drawings that get lost in the layering process so by using old drawing boards covered in marks this would lessen the amount of work for me, suffice to say this was not the case. Working with marks that weren't my own proved a bit of a challenge and I ended up covering alomost all of them with my own imagery, lots of imagery, so much that I buggered my wrist. All worth it though as I'm pretty happy with the results, but would I do it again? probably not.

The Drawing Board 122 x 80 cm. Mixed media on found drawing board

Couple of detail shots, you must know by now I'm a sucker for detail

Project space

Here are a few pics from a project space that I did with friends Andrea and Theo. It was a lot of fun and provided a few ideas for future exhibitions, shame that it was only up for the day.