You know it's almost Christmas...

Selfridges Christmas Windows.

Every week I walk past these on the way to work. I think there's something magical about Christmas. The lights, the gleaming white. And I think Selfridges this year shows some of that magic.

Margate Turner Contemporary, 'Nothing in the world but Youth.'

http://www.turnercontemporary.org/exhibitions/nothing-in-the-world-but-youth


On the way back from Camber Sands we stopped at Margate, went to an exhibition there 'Nothing in the world but Youth'. this really stirred something in me, guess cos of all the youth work I do, have done. Pretty insane exhibition too, bringing together works of young people all across, from famous artists their interpretations of youth culture, then works by young people too. Trying to make it in the world.



One of the videos I watched in the exhibition was one about a young Moroccan boy living in Holland, all he wanted to do was be a skateboarder, he loved it and every day would push himself further. he would enter competitions and win. His parents however wanted him to study more. His quote was 'I think everyone should just do what they love, and do it well.' That's Passion.

What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.

(Hunitarian museum)


The Foundling Museum
A now museum, the foundling orphanage was a home set up for children whose parents could not keep them. If they were too poor and had the child out of wedlock. The child would live in a foster home up until the age of 5 where they would then come to live in the home. They would be educated and do chores, be fed and clothed.




Every child and every generation of children throughout history and across the globe represents the future. (William Hogarth)

Final Screen Printed Image.

Collections

The Project was to collect together all the drawing we've been doing around museums, galleries and interesting places in London and to create a collection of our own interests. Personally I am really interested in stories, tales and characters.  

I decided when drawing around the locations that I would chose particular objects that had an interesting  characteristic or that could maybe play a part in a story. 

I think there's something about each of my drawings which when you look at them you maybe feel like there is a story behind it. Why draw such random objects? 

I gave a story title to each of these images, maybe one day I'll write the stories as children's books..

Film Envirnoments

Spitalfeilds Drawing